A couple of comic strip pick ups and drops to report this week. Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine is now in the Salinas Californian in Dilbert’s spot. Scott Adam’s Dilbert has been moved ot the back of the National/World section. Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac makes a debut in The Detroit Free Press as of […]

Editorial Cartoonist Pat Oliphant will have an exhibit entitled “Leadership: Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture from the Bush Years” at Telfair Museum in Savanna GA from January 31 through April 4, 2008. The exhibit is based on his newly released book by the same title.The Telfair Museum of Art is located at 121 Barnard St. in […]

Last Week Lexington Herald-Leader editorial Joel Pett spent a week in his hometown of Bloomington Indiana visiting Indiana University’s jorunalism program for a week of “Professional-In-Residence.” He spoke/lectured in four journalism classes and in one class explained that the point of an editorial cartoon is not to be funny and why the cartoonist-editor relationship can […]

Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming book Sepia Tome: Telling Dad’s World War II Story. Tyler’s comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen’s Comix twenty years ago. Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005. Late Bloomer […]

I knew Craig Boldman over in the NCS Great Lakes Chapter would come through with photos of the OSU Festival of Cartoon Art, after all, it’s in their backyard. Enough of my yammering… go check ’em out.

I know I’ve mentioned it in passing before, but Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher’s exhibit, “Mightier Than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL” will be opening on November 7th at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy’s Rubenstein Hall on the Duke campus. The exhibit is free to the public and will stay at Duke through […]

The Erie Times-News has released the results of their comic poll. Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse was the most read feature in their paper with a 88.3% readership. It’s noted that family strips dominated the top 5 most read features. Aside from FBoFW, the next 4 in line are: Pickles (85%), Hi & […]

Dilbert creator Scott Adams participated in a Q&A on the Freakonomics blog on Wednesday. It’s a long Q&A, but an interesting read. Tucked in that interview is a hint that one of his regular characters will die “soon.” He wouldn’t disclose when or who. Further into the interview he’s asked how far ahead he produces […]

If you’re near Boston this Sunday, go listen to Harry Katz lecture on the history of cartooning in America. Harry is the former head curator of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress and author of “Cartoon America: Comic Art at the Library of Congress.” He’ll speak at Cary Memorial Library at […]

Mike Cope writes in to alert us that Charles M. Schulz biographer David Michaelis will be interviewed on CBC’s radio probram “Q” today at 2 p.m. EST to talk about his new book Schulz and Peanuts. Those wanting to listen in can listen to the live stream or wait for the program to be archived […]

From most reports Mike Peters had the most entertaining presentation of the OSU Festival of Cartoon Art last weekend. Thanks to Mark Anderson, we have video of the last 7 minutes of Mike’s presentation.

Jerry Warshaw, who worked on the American Adventure comic strip and was the editorial cartoon for the Evanston beacon (IL) has passed away at the age of 78. Mark Brown, a Sun-Times columnist, has a fond obit. Over the years, Jerry’s cartoons appeared in everything from Playboy to Rotarian Magazine to newspaper ads for the […]

Clay Jone’s Great Halloween Theme Editorial Cartoon Research Project is now over and he’s declared the winner to the editorial cartoonist that used the most Halloween gags in their cartoons.The winners are: But wow, 97. Hey, let’s find out who drew the most and hope it wasn’t me. (this is where you pretend I’m away […]

Yesterday’s and today’s Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller are dealing with distorted biographies for the sake of selling more books. The storyline includes the Danae character questioning her father about his childhood with the intent to write her own distorted biography in the event he becomes famous. The timing of the material might suggest that […]

Hector Cantu and Carlos Catellanos, the co-creators of Baldo are featured attendees of Wizard World, a comic convention in Texas on November 16-18.