Happy grilling and fireworking.Be back tomorrow.Alan

With the passing of Howie Schneider last week, his feature The Sunshine Club will be retired on September 1.From Mary Anne Grimes, Executive Director, Public Relations at United Media: The Sunshine Club came from Howie’s heart and soul – it was his vision. These were his ideas and he was passionate about them. We don’t […]

The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon has selected Ellen Berg and Prudence Peiffer to receive their foundation’s fellows for 2007-2008. The foundation noted that there was an unusual number of strong candidates and the fellowship grant money of $15,000 was split to support the two students.Berg is a postdoctoral fellow at […]

Dave Astor has written an excellent piece on some of the high, low, and funny points in the last 50 years of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. There also was that aforementioned 1988 encounter with former Zeppelin frontman Plant, who happened to be staying at the same Milwaukee hotel as AAEC conventioneers. Several cartoonists […]

San Diego cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom took home a few awards at this year’s San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquette this last week. Lucas was awarded 1st place in magazine illustration and honorable mention, 2nd and 1st place in the Original Drawing or Illustration category. Judges remarked his entries had a […]

The Register Guard in Eugene Oregon is now running Rich Steven’s Diesel Sweeties as their trial strip. According to the editor, Rhymes with Orange – the last trial comic didn’t get a more than a warm reception and so it’s unlikely that it will find a permanent place in their line up.The Hartford Courant has […]

Richard Tennant, creator of The 5Th Wave, will celebrate 10 years in syndication this Friday.

This Thursday will mark Stuart Carlson’s 15th year as a syndicated editorial cartoonist. He’s been with the Milwaukee Sentinel since 1983.

From United Media comes word that Howie Schneider, creator of Eek and Meek and The Sunshine Club has passed away at the age of 77 after complications due to heart surgery.Howie was also a magazine cartoonist, children’s book author and sculptor who served 20 years on the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the […]

Recent Get Fuzzy strips have depicted the Rob Wilco character with a t-shirt that reads “Darby Cafe, Olympia” – the name of an actual restaurant in the state of Washington. Coincidence? From an article in the Olympian newspaper, it appears that Darby Conley, the strips creator, has a friend in Olympia that would brag about […]

Charlos Gary, creator of Working It Out and Cafe Con Leche has started a blog last Friday. Currently theme of his blog posts are about his experiment of being a full-time cartoonist in New York City for the next month.

I don’t follow Popeye very much, so I was a bit perplexed when I came across this blog post in the Philadelphia weekly reporting on Wednesday and Thursday’s installment of the feature that depicts Olive Oyl with a gun to her head threatening suicide. Did Popeye cross a line? Is suicide a topic we can […]

From the Comics Reporter comes news that Jim Babcock who was an illustrator and sports cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee and Modesto Bee has died at the age of 87. In addition to illustrating articles, he made a Sunday historical cartoon called California Nuggets and created the popular Friday sports feature Sportoons, for which he […]

Editorial Cartoonist Pat Oliphant has several drawings included in a new picture book commemorating the 60th anniversary of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The book was published in Germany and has already been released to book stores this month.UPDATE: E&P reported that Signe Wilkinson is also in the book.

I’ve mentioned the upcoming Charles M. Schulz biography before, now the Aaugh blog reports that the book now has a scheduled release date of October 16th.