San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will hold its fourth annual fund-raiser on September 15th at Pixar Animation Studios. Funds benefit the museum. See their webs site for details

Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, has issued a statement through Universal Press stating that contrary to rumors that are still in circulation, she will not be retiring this fall and will be continuing her strip in “hybrid” fashion. Dear Editor: Never did I suspect it would come to this. I have […]

Despite high praise for cartoonists at this year’s AAEC convention, Helen Thomas – the 87 year old White House Correspondent for UPI wasn’t that impressed with Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury last week (see toon) that joked that she had been a correspondent at the White House since the Truman administration and that some say she was […]

A couple of pick ups to report. The Hartford Courant has picked up Rich Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties as their trial ‘toon for the month of August.Norm Feuti reports that his feature, Retail has been picked up by the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily.

Garfield Gets Real is the new direct-to-video Garfield movie set for release this fall. The movie will be all CGI.

For all those editorial cartoonists who are now cramming to learn Flash for better Pulitzer positioning next year may want to check out this little flash animation below as a fun little diversion. Enjoy.Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantARTUPDATE: Aaron Taylor writes in to point us to part two of the Animator vs. Animation […]

Ted Slampyak, the artist behind Little Orphan Annie, has posted a review of his drawing process. The system I show won’t work for everyone. It may not even work for anyone, except that it works for me. Other comics artists use other systems — maybe some of them will comment here on theirs — but […]

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will open up the ToonSeum Gallery this October that will feature exhibits of cartoon art from comic books, comic strips, illustrations, editorial cartooning and animation. The gallery’s first exhibit is entitled “From Illustration to Animation: Picture Books Come Alive Through the Art of Animation” and opens up in October of […]

I missed this one. Matt Janz, creator of Out of the Gene Pool was last week’s Washington Post’s Meet the Comics Pages online chat guest. The transcript is still available online.

From Universal Press Syndicate comes news that GoComics will be releasing the first mobile phone comic book on August 20th. The comic entitled, “Thunder Road” will be delivered as a slideshow to the phone. “Thunder Road” is created by Sean Demory and drawn by Steven Sanders and is a “post-apocalyptic, diesel punk action adventure” – […]

From Mike Rhode comes news that the Washington Examiner has dropped all of their comics and replaced them with puzzles. Over the years, they went from two full pages, to one half page and now to none. They invite comments on their website. Perhaps they’ll take a cue from the L.A. Post-Telegram as well as […]

Mark Tatulli’s wordless comic feature Lio is an easy sell in Asia. According to a press release from Universal Press Syndicate, Lio can be found in every major English language newspaper in Asia including the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, the Straits Time in Singapore, the New Straits Time in Malaysia and the […]

Here’s an interesting story from The Register-Guard (Eugene OR) about 15 year-old Olivia Clingman-White who is Jan Eliot’s assistant on the Stone Soup comic. Olivia has been working with Jan for the last five years and is responsible for coloring the comic in Photoshop. She’s also been a source of inspiration for some of story […]

E&P reported that Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge will be speaking at the National Conference of Editorial Writers on September 29th. The topic of his speech? “Making the Case for an Endangered Species: Political Cartoonists.”When I wrote last week that today’s editorial cartoonists are “infatuated by their own victim status” this is an […]

Mike Lynch has posted a motivational review of Mark Tatull’s rise as a comic strip cartoonist that was first posted on The Wisenheimer. So what’s the point of all this? Well, back in ’97 I thought it was all over. I had to give up my dream out of necessity. Sales weren’t there and there […]