Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be presented a 2007 Media Award by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association bringing attention to “Aphasia” a disorder often brought out as a result of a stroke or brain injury. In her comic feature, the grandfather character struggles to regain his speech after a stroke. The […]

Chicago Tribune Public Editor Timothy McNulty has written a response to many a questioning readers as to why a September 14th Get Fuzzy strip was yanked and what criteria does the paper use to determine whether a comic feature should be removed. Readers asked why the Sept. 14th Get Fuzzy, which used the words like […]

Beginning today, Matt Bors’ editorial cartoons are syndicated through United Feature Syndicate. Matt will produce three cartoons a week in color and black and white. “Matt Bors is one of the most original and talented young cartoonists around,” said Ted Rall, Acquisition and Development Editor for United Media. “He infuses the traditional format of editorial […]

Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger, has accepted an invitation to be a “Pretty Cow Contest” judge at this year’s Mississippi State Fair. Marshall has been a judge before.

Four cartoonists, whose works appear in the Cavalier Daily, have quit in protest over the firing of Grant Woolard who’s cartoon depicting nine naked black men fighting with chairs, sticks and boots with the caption of “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The departing cartoonists include Ellisha Marongelli, Joe Shaver, Chen Song and Laura Lin. Their departure leaves […]

In continuation of an earlier story I reported on a couple of weeks ago regarding a controversial cartoon depicting a hispanic girl imprisoned in a closet forced to drink urine. Over a 100 students gathered outside the paper’s offices last Tuesday to protest the comic and demand that the editor be fired. Because the paper […]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]

Rob Rogers, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has passed the mantle of President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists to Nick Anderson, of the Houston Chronicle. He has penned an outgoing message to the AAEC members which recounts some of the highlights and challenges the organization has faced this last year and in […]

Mike Rhode reports that Richard Thompson, creator of Cul-de-Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac, will be hte featured speaker at the Writer’s Center. He’ll talk about “how he finds and develops ideas and will share samples of work in process.”Mike indicates that the event is free, but possibly requires a RSVP.

Despite having a $100,000 bounty on his head (an additional $50k if he’s beheaded), Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who is now in hiding after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, is in reported good spirits. Mr Vilks, who lives in an isolated area of Sweden, has been […]

In continuation of the partnership between Universal Press and Lulu.com, a new comic collection for Stone Soup has been released. The book by Stone Soup creator, Jan Eliot, is entitled “There’s No ‘WE’ in Crowning!” and is largely on the topic of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and midwifery. This book can be purchased for $8.95 for […]

E&P has the story that Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be making at least 15 scheduled appearances across the country to promote his book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” which contains the story-lines of Lisa’s battle with cancer. Check the E&P story for dates and locations which range from Ohio, Texas and California.I typically […]

Investors Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has managed to offend a few Iranians after a cartoon he drew depicting Iran as a sewer spewing cockroaches across the Middle East. The apparent message was to “point out the danger of extremism and its roots in the Middle East, related to Iran’s government,” but many don’t […]

In what appears to be a sequel to last year’s Dutch Mohammed cartoon, al-Qaida groups inside Iraq are offering rewards for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, and his newspaper editor after they published a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed’s head on the body of a dog sculpture. The bounty is $150,000 for […]

Bobby Bryant, a reporter for The State (SC), has been tracking some of the anger that Funky Winkerbean readers have expressed on blogs such as this one and thecancerblog.com.Writes one grandmother: “[Tom Batiuk is] a man who seems to be without any idea of the pain you are inflicting,” she wrote on TheCancerBlog.com, a cancer-support […]