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J.C. Duffy talks about Fusco Brothers

Over at the Universal Press web site is a news release with J.C. Duffy talking about his feature, Fusco Brothers which has been in syndication since 1989 and appears in 100+ papers. As far as the “Fusco Brothers” changing over the past years, they really haven’t much, Duffy confesses. The looks of the “Fusco Brothers” […]

Happy 50th birthday to the AAEC

Today marks the official 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. AAEC Secretary-Treasurer V. Cullum Rogers did some digging and found a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation that was dated on today’s date in 1957 by John Stampone. Happy birthday.

Lee Salem’s interview with Mr. Media posted

Mr. Media has posted a lengthy and interesting interview with Lee Salem, President and Editor at Universal Press Syndicate. Mr. Salem fields questions about his first impressions about Doonesbury, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, Foxtrot, Boondocks, Bloom County and Lio.There’s also an interesting discussion on the Universal Press […]

Universal Press posts ‘Maintaining’ samples

Back in October I told you about a new feature that was to debut in January from Universal Press. I noticed that they’ve posted samples of Maintaining on their web site. Maintaining is by Nate Creekmore who has been working on the feature under a development deal since 2004. He won the Charles M. Schulz […]

Irwin “Cap” Caplan dies at age 88

Irwin “Cap” Caplan, who drew two nationally syndicated cartoons, Famous Last Words and 48 States of Mind in the 1960s has passed away at age 88 in Seattle Washington. Irwin was a NCS cartoonist of the year in 1972 in the advertising and illustration division. He went on to teach at University of Washington School […]

Magazine cartoonist round-up

Peripherally I watch the magazine market because I enjoy the art, but since magazine gag cartoons aren’t this blogs focus, I’m rounding up some of the news I’m seeing in that market space because I know there are a lot of magazine cartoonists that read this blog:John Donohue is a frequent New Yorker cartoonist who […]

Cartoon America book signing scheduled

Harry Katz, the curator for the Cartoon America exhibit in the Library of Congress, published a book last fall called “Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress” and will be in speaking about his book and signing copies at two times/locations in southern California – first at 1 pm at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium […]

Times Union: Is product placement in comics a concern?

Monica Bartoszek, senior editor/operations for the Times Union questioned the perceived practice of commercial product placement in comic strips after a reader mailed her 10 comic strip clippings from a 4-day period which included: Pickles: Feb. 5, iPod The Pajama Diaries: Feb. 5, Barbie Grand Avenue: Feb. 5, Calgon Close to Home: Feb. 6, Target […]

Time magazine stops runnning editorial cartoons

According to Daryl Cagle, Time Magazine has stopped printing editorial cartoons and there hasn’t been any complaints that they’re gone. Regarding their decision, Daryl writes: I have mixed feelings about Time running political cartoons. It is a great venue for our art form, and we want more readers to appreciate editorial cartoons, but Time was […]

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