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To print or not to print George Herriman cartoons

Allan Holtz, over at the Stripper’s Guide blog, spent a day going through the Los Angeles Examiner archives and found a trove of George Herriman cartoons dating 1906 (Herriman worked at the paper from 1906 to 1909). Allan spent the day making copies and is asking for readership interest in whether he posts to them […]

Salon to run Opus; Opus movie no longer in the works

Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]

Harvey Award nominees announced

The 2007 Harvey Award Nominees have been announced and several newspaper cartoonists are among the nominees. Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro, is up for two awards: Best Cartoonist and a Special Award for Humor in comics. Competing in the category of Best Syndicated Strip or Panel includes Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, Mutts by Patrick McDonnell, The […]

Humorous Maximus temporarily taken off Line

Dan Thompson writes in with the story behind Humorous Maximus‘ temporary closure. Apparently (and allegedly) the site’s own web master copied all the ‘toons off of Humorous Maximus and started his own little site with them and then deleted all the pages from the HM site. Needless to say, Dan and fellow co-founder Jerry King […]

Hal Foster finally gets respect in Windy City

Despite living in the Chicago area for nearly two decades, Hal Foster’s work, Prince Valiant was never published in the area newspapers, nor any of his art work been displayed in area museums. But one 78 year-old fan has worked to create an exhibit of 50 enlarged and restored reprints that will open Monday at […]

Cartoonists in the News: Leigh Rubin

The Winston-Salem Journal has a write-up on Leigh Rubin and how he comes up with his material for Rubes. A typical day for Rubin starts when he gets up and takes his dog – part Akita, part-mutt – for a walk. “That’s my good excuse to get going in the morning. Then breakfast, then shower, […]

How Beetle Bailey’s Camp Swampy got its name

When Charles Brown (yeah, that’s his real name) contacted Mort Walker to see if he would autograph a historical book about Camp Chowder – the Army camp that Mort was stationed at during World War II – Mort did more than just autograph the book – he sent Charlie (yeah, he also goes by “Charlie”) […]

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