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Marshall Ramsey live blogging election results update

Received an email from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey who reported in on his live blogging experiment of last nights election results there in Mississippi. He published 32 posts and 12 cartoons in that one night. From his email: I was exhausted when I got home at 1 a.m., but was very energized this morning […]

News Free Comics ends subscription drive and dreams

Back in June, I wrote about Randall Vanfossen’s efforts to establish a monthly mailing of comics strips through a subscription model. He has announced that he was not able to garner enough subscriptions to make the publication happen. I knew a subscription drive was a long shot, but when I made the decision to go […]

Scott Adams mentoring new cartoonist and blogging about it

Over on Dilbert creator Scott Adam’s blog, he’s revealed that he’s helping an unknown cartoonist, Scott Meyer, take his creation Basic Instructions and turn it into syndication material.From his blog: Over the course of the next few months I offered him some tips for getting syndicated in newspapers. It dawned on me that my blog […]

12 Memorable Comic Strip Deaths

With all the attention now on Funky Winkerbean’s Lisa Moore’s impending death, the A.V. Club looks back at the 12 most memorable comic strip deaths which include: Farley (For Better Or For Worse), Dick Davenport (Doonesbury), Dead bird (Calvin & Hobbes), Grandpa (The Family Circus), Anonymous corpse (Kudzu), Daddy Warbucks (Little Orphan Annie), John Darling […]

Cartoon Contest to Promote PBS Satire Show

According to E&P, Drew Rougier-Chapman has announced a cartooning contest to promote “Party Toons” – a weekly satire show he’s been developing for PBS to showcase editorial cartoons in a roundtable discussion. “I am offering $500 for the cartoon, either animated or in print, that best expresses why editorial cartoons are so vital to democracy […]

Library of Congress to digitally preserve Doonesbury and Oliphant

The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, it will begin digitally archiving a broad range of creative works including photos, cartoons, motion pictures, audio and video games. As far as cartoons: Universal Press Syndicate: Universal Press Syndicate, a newspaper syndication company, will use a collection […]

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