Monte Schulz, Charles M. Schulz’s oldest son, has posted a comment over on Cartoon Brew regarding the Schulz and Peanuts biography calling the author, David Michaelis “arrogant” and outlines several small and large factual errors in the book. So, why didn’t I correct him when I read that first version? Because to change the central […]

The Charles M. Schulz Musuem has several interesting exhibits planned this year. Starting January 16th the museum will have feature an exhibit called “Beyond Words” that will display 75 Peanut originals that told stories without using words. Exhibit runs through May 12th.Beginning in February, another exhibit co-curated by Brian Walker (who also co-curated the recent […]

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s review of the Schulz and Peanuts biography that appeared in the Wall Street Journal had New York Magazine wondering how the newspaper tracked down the reclusively retired cartoonist. Long story short – they went through the syndicate. The magazine references an article over at the Cleveland Scene who, in […]

San Louis Obispo’s newspaper, The Tribune, has a lengthy article on Jerry Scott – one of only three cartoonists to have two comic features in 1000+ papers at the same time. The article explains how Jerry met up with Rick Kirkman to create Baby Blues (Jerry is the writer) and how he hooked up with […]

Jeffrey Weiss, the religion reporter for the Dallas Morning News, wondered why Tom Batuik made no mention of religion, prayers, god or faith in the story-line of Funky Winkerbean character Lisa Moore’s death. End-of-life is when people and their loved ones often confront their spiritual beliefs. But not a single strip mentioned God, clergy or […]

Charlie Hall drew and editorial cartoon for the Barrington Times (RI) and created a wave of upset readers. The cartoon is described as: In the first panel of the cartoon, a high-school student is being harassed by others for urging her peers not to drink. A girl tells the student, “Yea, if WE want to […]

Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batuik is well into this book signing tour to promote his new book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. According to the Akron Beakon Journal, his first book signing in Akron brought out over 400 people. The book, which is printed by a small press […]

The Billings Gazette added four new features earlier this year: Pickles, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy and Baby Blues and now they have added Pearls Before Swine and Prickly City to their line ups. To make room for the new features, they have dropped B.C. and Mallard Fillmore. Additionally, the paper has announced that it will […]

The Kansas City Star takes a look at Pat Oliphant, who at age 72, has no plan to retire and has released a new book entitled: “Leadership: Cartoons & Sculpture From the Bush Years” which as you can read from the title, contains cartoons and photos of sculptures of George W. Bush.Regarding caricaturing politicians he […]

Back in June, I told you that the Miami Herald was holding a contest called the “Great Cartoonist Search” to find a local cartoonist to create a cartoon that reflects South Florida. Over 155 cartoonists submitted and over 11 thousand votes were cast. Jim Morin, the Herald’s editorial cartoonist was one of the judges that […]

Amy Schulz Johnson, Charles Schulz’ daughter appeared on The Early Show this morning to defend her father’s good name and criticize Michael Michaelis book “Schulz and Peanuts.” The “whole thing (book)” is wrong, Schulz Johnson asserted, “and the reason it’s wrong is because he puts negative twists on everything, and he psychoanalyzes my dad and […]

A columnist for the Advertiser in Newfoundland is missing Gary Larson’s Far Side which ended 12 years ago. Far Side cartoons were like no newspaper cartoons before or since. They were not only off the wall, they were out the door, down the street and out in the ozone.

Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne live blogged the GOP presidential debate held in Michigan last Tuesday. Henry covered the event as the cartoonist for the Detroit News but also as a writer for the National Review online. You can check out his sketches from the debate over on the Detroit News web site or […]

Plain Dealer columnist Michael Heaton, despite admitting his was touched by the death of Funky Winkerbean character Lisa Moore, is worried that it will become a trend as cartoonists see the attention that Tom Batuik received. So what do we have to look forward to in the funnies of the near future? Marmaduke the mutt […]

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written a positive review of Schulz and Peanuts the new biography of Charles M. Schulz by David Michaelis for the Wall Street Journal. The cartoons are also terrifically funny and edgy, even after all these years. The wonder of “Peanuts” is that it worked on so many levels […]