July 9th entry of Mallard Fillmore by Bruce Tinsley features an tribute to Johnny Hart, who died in April.Why it took 3 months to do this strip, no one knows.

I’m heading out later this afternoon to Seattle for a bit of R&R (my wife and kids are already up there). I’ll be away for about a week, but three generous people have stepped up and offered to keep the blog updated while I’m away. I’d like to thank Charles Brubaker, Ted Slampyak and Tom […]

Creators Syndicate recently posted samples of their new feature – Free Range by Bill Whitehead.Here’s another homepage to the comic, although it’s obviously incomplete.No announcement so far on when this comic will begin appearing in newspapers.

Amy Lago at The Washington Post Writers Group emailed to announce that John Kovaleski’s Bo Nanas will be coming to an end on July 28th. Bo Nanas made its big syndication debut in 2003 after John completed a year-long fellowship program (FineToon). The last week of Bo Nanas material will “show a bit of Bo’s […]

Several Daily Cartoonists have emailed me with some devastating news that Doug Marlette died this morning in a Mississippi car accident. From the police reports, Doug’s pickup hydroplaned off of the highway and struck a tree at about 9:42 a.m. this morning. He died instantly. Another passenger (the driver) was taken to the hospital.Doug, 57, […]

~Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell has joined the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to urge the Department of Environmental Conservation to abandon currently proposed trapping regulations and create new regulations that would would make it more difficult to accidently ensnare pets or children. “I urge new DEC Commissioner Grannis not to adopt the proposed […]

In what may set the record for a decision ever to remain unmade, The Olympian is now running Greg Evan’s Luann in trial mode as they seek to find a “suitable” replacement for Bill Amend’s Fox Trot which retired back in January. Other strips that have been evaluated: Frazz, Mutts, Pearls Before Swine, 9 Chickweed […]

Mark Pett’s Lucky Cow strip made an appearance in Sunday’s Paul Gilligan’s Pooche Café.

Two attendees of this year’s AAEC convention in D.C. have posted their photos. Mike Rhode of ComicsDC blog has posted photos of the Cartoonapolooza. Jeff Parker of Florida Today has posted his photos.

The AAEC wrapped up it’s annual convention over the weekend. Here is a list of stories about the going’s on:Dana Priest, the journalist that broke the story on the Walter Reed hospital deplorable conditions spoke to editorial cartoonists praising them for putting “the punctuation mark on the sentences we constructed.“Nick Anderson will become president of […]

I’m looking for a few cartoonists (or comic aficionados) to volunteer submitting stories or discussion topics to the blog on July 13th through 18th whilst I’m vacationing in Seattle. I’m not expecting volunteers to submit something everyday, but at least a couple of stories over those days would be fine. Here’s what you can do. […]

E&P editor Dave Astor is attending the AAEC convention in Washington D.C. and has filed a report about the session on the future of the editorial cartooning profession. His article focuses on things editorial cartoonists can do to halt the declining numbers of editorial cartoonists positions including: speaking about the importance of their profession at […]

For those of us unable to attend this year’s AAEC convention in WAshington D.C., C-SPAN is covering some of the sessions. On their web site they’ve posted the sessions they’ve recorded (but no streaming video). Today they’ll be covering: Wartime Editorial Cartoons and Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award. Start looking under the cushions for the […]

Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson is in Rome to judge the 24th International Biennial of Art Humour. His blog has sketches and photographs of his trip.

Single and Looking © Matt Jantz; Dist. Washington Post Writers Group. Used by permission The Washington Post Writer’s Syndicate has announced that Matt Janz has changed the title of his comic strip feature, Out of the Gene Pool, to Single and LookingThe reason for the change stems from a change in the strips focus over […]