» Wednesday’s Baldo paid a special tribute to Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo. Hector Cantu told E&P that “Gus broke ground for Latino strips. He was a tremendous inspiration to me and Carlos.” Gus passed away earlier this month at the age of 90.» Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be the featured guest at […]

According to Dave Astor, The Star-Ledger has shrunk its Sunday comics from eight pages to six . The move resulted in only one dropped feature (39 to 38), but Dave says “many of the 38 strips ran very small on Feb. 17. Several of the pages had seven comics crammed into them — including a […]

This blog deals primarily with newspaper based cartooning and as such major and minor shifts in the industry can have an impact on most of my readers. I subscribe to various newspaper and media related RSS feeds to keep track of the rumblings in the industry. Here are some of the recent changes that have […]

Back in December, I wrote about a Illinois man who was fired from his job after management used security cameras to find out that he posted a Dilbert cartoon up in the break room. The cartoon joked that management decisions were made by “drunken lemurs.”See the cartoon over on Flickr.Beginning on Wednesday of this week, […]

2007 was the year we saw perhaps the most comic characters die (at least temporarily). Only 7 weeks into the new year, we’ve got our first 2008 death announcement. Tony Carrillo, creator of F Minus, has announced on this blog that “that one of his characters will be ‘killed off’ next week.” He later mentions […]

Just received a FYI email from John Read. Due to problems with printers he’s had to delay the launch of his new magazine Stay Tooned!. He’s optimistic that the first edition will be available during the first week of March.

This year’s Herblock Prize has been awarded to John Sherffius of the Camera of Boulder, Colorado.From the judges: “John’s work exemplifies the best the art of editorial cartooning has to offer. Through a potent combination of excellent drawing technique, striking original imagery, and passionate conviction, his cartoons kick you in the gut. They are not […]

Sean Hoy will be releasing his fifth book, Out of the Cup, a collection of coffee cartoons soon. Sean is an editorial cartoonist, illustrator out of Arizona and produces topical cartoon collections for golfers, dog lovers, cowboy/westerners, and office dwellers. You can check out his stuff at Off Kilter CartoonsLio, and Heart of the City […]

Here are a few of the changes on the comic pages:Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse returns to the Sherman Denison Herald Democrat after it was dropped when the paper scaled down to a single page of comics. Tony Murphy’s recently launched It’s All About You has been picked up by the Tampa Bay […]

The alt-weekly and web comic darling, The Perry Bible Fellowship will come to an end according to its creator Nicholas Gurewitch. Nicholas cites, “I’ll be sending another PBF next Monday. After that, I’ll be discontinuing The PBF as a weekly strip.”By my calculation, PBF created just over 201 comics most of which have been published […]

The Chicago Sun-Times is celebrating its 60th birthday and part of that celebration is republishing some of the best cartoons of its history by its staff cartoonists: Bill Mauldin, John Fischetti, Jacob Burck and current cartoonist Jack Higgins.Visit web site for slideshow and to read the full article.

Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne has responded to Jim Borgman’s “February Q’s?” in which he asked if the editorial cartooning profession was due for a make-over. Henry responds: I think you have missed two evolutions in cartooning. First, the Oliphant formula has not been the newspaper standard for some time. Cartoonists as varied as […]

Newsweek has an interesting article about a Mexican editorial cartoonist, Francisco “Paco” Calderon, who works for the Reforma newspaper and his struggle to influence Mexican policy in regard to its relationship with the United States. His contention is that Mexico has played the victim role far too long and that it should work to strengthen […]

In a rare development, the calendar rights to Scott Hilburn’s The Argyle Sweater have been snatched up by Borders even before the comic has entered into print syndication. Borders will sell The Argyle Sweater as one of its top 2009 calendar properties through all of its retail chains and mall kiosks nationwide.

Working It Out and Cafe Con Leche creator Charlos Gary will be doing a series of workplace cartoons entitled “10 Signs That Your Working for a Crazy Boss.” He’s soliciting ideas from his readers.