The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]
Rob Rogers, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has passed the mantle of President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists to Nick Anderson, of the Houston Chronicle. He has penned an outgoing message to the AAEC members which recounts some of the highlights and challenges the organization has faced this last year and in […]
Mike Rhode reports that Richard Thompson, creator of Cul-de-Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac, will be hte featured speaker at the Writer’s Center. He’ll talk about “how he finds and develops ideas and will share samples of work in process.”Mike indicates that the event is free, but possibly requires a RSVP.
Despite having a $100,000 bounty on his head (an additional $50k if he’s beheaded), Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who is now in hiding after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, is in reported good spirits. Mr Vilks, who lives in an isolated area of Sweden, has been […]
In continuation of the partnership between Universal Press and Lulu.com, a new comic collection for Stone Soup has been released. The book by Stone Soup creator, Jan Eliot, is entitled “There’s No ‘WE’ in Crowning!” and is largely on the topic of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and midwifery. This book can be purchased for $8.95 for […]
E&P has the story that Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be making at least 15 scheduled appearances across the country to promote his book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” which contains the story-lines of Lisa’s battle with cancer. Check the E&P story for dates and locations which range from Ohio, Texas and California.I typically […]
Investors Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has managed to offend a few Iranians after a cartoon he drew depicting Iran as a sewer spewing cockroaches across the Middle East. The apparent message was to “point out the danger of extremism and its roots in the Middle East, related to Iran’s government,” but many don’t […]
In what appears to be a sequel to last year’s Dutch Mohammed cartoon, al-Qaida groups inside Iraq are offering rewards for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, and his newspaper editor after they published a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed’s head on the body of a dog sculpture. The bounty is $150,000 for […]
Bobby Bryant, a reporter for The State (SC), has been tracking some of the anger that Funky Winkerbean readers have expressed on blogs such as this one and thecancerblog.com.Writes one grandmother: “[Tom Batiuk is] a man who seems to be without any idea of the pain you are inflicting,” she wrote on TheCancerBlog.com, a cancer-support […]
I told you about it last year and now it’s happened. Ted Rall officiated and married cartoonists Masheka Wood and Mikhaela Reid in Massachusetts. Massachusetts law allows a one-day permit for a friend or family member to perform marriages. See joyous photo over on AAEC web site.Congrats to the newly weds.
E&P reports that a modernized Steve Canyon will be released – at least limitedly – on Monday. The new version is written and drawn by retired Air Force Master Sgt. Russ Maheras for the Air Force Times, a weekly paper that covers the military. The new strip “follows Brig. Gen. Steve Canyon as he investigates […]
Darrin Bell’s Candorville is in trial mode at the Raleigh News & Observer – a conservative southern paper, and as he writes on his blog, timing couldn’t have been worse. Naturally, the week with which we introduce their solidly-conservative readers to Candorville happens to be a week that discusses civil rights by lampooning a closeted […]
From the ComicsDC blog, Mike Rhode informs us that David Willis, author of “Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print and Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression” will be speaking next Monday, September 24th at George Mason University during their 6 day book festival. All events are free and open to the […]
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac started out in the Washington Post Magazine 3 years ago as a weekly feature in the Washington Post Magazine. The Post has picked up the feature now that it has gone into syndication.Tom Shroder, editor of the WP Magazine writes: Alice is the first among equals in the ensemble of […]
Bad Reporter creator Don Asmussen has paid a tribute to Phil Frank, who passed away earlier this week.The San Francisco Chronicle, which ran Farley for 32 years, has a tribute page as well which allows fans to sign a guestbook, leave comments or call in their condolences.