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Season 2 of Aaron McGruder’s Boondocks back on Adult Swim

Months after its rumored return, Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks is scheduled to return to the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on October 8. The second season is only 15 episodes, but will feature the voice talent of many celebrities including: Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah, Cee-lo, Lil Wayne, Donald Faison, Aisha Tyler, Kym Whitley, Tichina […]

American Masters to highlight Charles Schulz

Peanuts creator Charles Schulz will featured on an upcoming episode of PBS’s “American Masters” program. The episode, according to E&P includes interviews with members of the Schulz family, Jules Feiffer, Lynn Johnston and Schulz biographer David Michaelis.The episode is scheduled for October 29th.

Brad McMillan Passes at Age 61

Brad McMillan, whose editorial cartoons appeared in the Memphis Business Journal since 1983, has passed away at age 61. Brad originally taught english in Jackson Tennessee, but switched careers and moved to Memphis to pursue a career in art. He was a successful artist in Memphis in the 70’s and 80’s, eventually settling in Texas, […]

Clay Jones Talks Shop With Scott Stantis, Joel Pett and Matt Davies

Freelance-Star editorial cartoonst Clay Jones interviewed fellow cartoonists Scott Stantis, Joel Pett and Matt Davies to talk shop about various aspects of cartooning. Topics covered include: state of today’s cartoons, disagreeing with the paper’s positions, how does winning the Pulitzer affect your work, impact of blogs, and receiving hate mail.On that last topic, here is […]

Self-Syndicated Outzkirts Appears In 50 Papers

I received an email from Dave Dotson regarding a couple of significant milestones for his self-syndicated feature Outzkirts. He reports that not only his his feature in 50 papers nation-wide but that he’s also picked up the Jacksonville Daily Progress, his first daily. He also mentions that the Kerrville Daily Times in Texas is planning […]

Funny Page Line-ups Changes

Only a couple of line-up changes that I’m aware of. Candorville creator Darrin Bell reports on his blog that Lalo Alcaraz’ La Cucaracha has been dropped in favor of Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle. John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee reports on his blog that his feature was recently dropped by Rocky […]

Cartoonists Quit in Protest of Cartoonist’s Firing

Four cartoonists, whose works appear in the Cavalier Daily, have quit in protest over the firing of Grant Woolard who’s cartoon depicting nine naked black men fighting with chairs, sticks and boots with the caption of “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The departing cartoonists include Ellisha Marongelli, Joe Shaver, Chen Song and Laura Lin. Their departure leaves […]

Students Gather to Protest Comic, Demand Editor Be Fired

In continuation of an earlier story I reported on a couple of weeks ago regarding a controversial cartoon depicting a hispanic girl imprisoned in a closet forced to drink urine. Over a 100 students gathered outside the paper’s offices last Tuesday to protest the comic and demand that the editor be fired. Because the paper […]

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