E&P is reporting that Luann cartoonist Greg Evans will be speaking at the Charles M. Schulz Museum on March 17 to discuss Schulz’s influence on his comic.

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 […]

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 […]

Today’s Pearls Before Swine got an out-loud chuckle from me today. If you haven’t seen it, take a moment and check it out. I won’t describe it so as to lessen its punch-line.

Ventura County Star editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg will have his own exhibit featuring nearly 70 pieces from his 30 year career. There is an opening reception on the February 25 from 3-5 pm. The exhibit runs through March 30th at The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring in Los Angeles. The exhibit is entitled, “Burning Bushes: Editorial Cartoons […]

The Investors Business Daily has launched a new web site called IBD Editorials to feature their house editorials, syndicated columns, polls and editorial cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez. Michael’s cartoons have been available on other web sites, but this appears to the first time that IBD has made it easy to find their […]

There have been several For Better Or For Worse stories published across the country since it first became news that its creator Lynn Johnston was not going to retire her strip this fall. I bring this one to your attention, not because it has a great deal of new information, but it does confirm from […]

Bob Oksner, who created the comic strip Miss Cairo Jones in 1945 and a couple other minor strips (I Love Lucy, Soozi) in the 50s and 60s passed away on Sunday at the age of 90. Bob was mostly known for his work in the comic book field working on titles such as Green Lantern, […]

Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge has launched a blog to post his unpublished and killed cartoons. The blog is actually a sanctioned blog hosted on the Star’s web site and has the full backing and support of the publisher and editors though it does contain the following warning at the top of the […]

Mike Lynch points out that May 5th is traditionally been Cartoonists Day but that it really hasn’t been publicized for the last several years. He also points us to a new web site set up dedicated to the day. I’m not sure who’s behind the web site but the press release says to contact Ken […]

From the Aaugh blog comes news about a new biographical work on Charles Schulz that will be available in October. The book, coming in at 688 pages, is entitled “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” and is penned by David Michaelis. Amazon is offering a pre-order price guarantee that if you pre-order the book now, you’ll […]

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was one of the featured speakers for a tribute to film director Robert Altman who past away last November according to E&P. Garry worked with Altman on two “Tanner” HBO series in 1998 and 2004. Other speakers included: Harry Belafonte, E.L. Doctorow, Kevin Kline, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, and Lily Tomlin.

Kevin Kallaugher, or KAL, was featured in the January/February edition of the Harvard Magazine. The article mostly featured his work on the Digital Dubya – the 3-D bust of President Bush. One interesting factoid on how KAL landed his Economist gig: Kallaugher went to England for a bicycle tour after college, took a job as […]

Did anyone notice that Stan Lee had a brief appearance in last night’s episode of Heroes? I noticed his name in the credits but it wasn’t until I saw the episode for the second time that I recognized him as the bus driver in the last 5 minutes or so. Heroes is one the hottest […]

Michael Fry Last May, I told you that Michael Fry (the writer behind Over the Hedge), had started a company called RingTales along with Jim Cox (the executive co-producer for the Over the Hedge movie). Their objective was to create small animated shorts from existing print cartoons that can be distributed via mobile phones, blogs/web […]