Earlier this month, I reported that The Hattiesburg American (MS) was changing their line-up because Kudzu is no longer available. After polling their readers they’ve added three new features: Pickles, Pearls Before Swine and Little Dog Lost. On the outs include: Cathy and Mark Trail and of course Kudzu.On the Sunday pages, they’ve also dropped […]
Stripper Guide, Allan Holtz, posted samples of a brief lived Sunday feature by Pat Oliphant that ran in the 1980s. Sunday Punk starred Oliphant’s trademark penguin character from his daily editorial cartoons, and the character was pretty much used in the same way in the Sunday-only comic strip — making wry comments on politics and […]
The Times-Union editorial cartoonist Ed Gamble made headlines last week as African-Americans in Jacksonville, as well as nationally, cried foul over Ed’s “Don’t Snitch” cartoon that also used the term “ho.” African-American leaders have demanded an apology, Ed’s dismissal and the inclusion of an African-American on the editorial board. According to an e-mail from Ed, […]
A reader sent me the link to a CBC News interview with Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse. It’s a typical interview with Lynn, but still a good read. A couple of items that I think qualifies for news is her intent to use her web site to post additional material regarding […]
Berkeley Breathed’s Opus has been temporarily dropped by 25 or more papers today and next week as the topic involves the Lola Granola’s character converting to “radical islamist.” Salon.com, carries the strip says many editors were afraid of offending muslim readers. Another aspect to the strip was a not-so-subtle reference to sex.
David Malki, the self proclaimed comic strip doctor, has tired of his snarky ways and has decided to stop writing his columns. Continuing commitments with my own ongoing comic, writing, and film projects have precluded my spending further time on faux criticism, and frankly, I don’t even read newspaper comics anymore. So it’s been a […]
Congrats to Marshall Ramsey who has past an impressive milestone of 3000 blog posts in just over a year. His milestone post? This won’t be long. Or flashy. I just have two words to say to all of you — thank you. This blog could be a ball and chain, another thing to eat up […]
Scott Adams continues to post his advise to Scott Meyer who is trying to take his feature to syndication, Basic Instructions. Part 7 has now been posted. He’s posted several revisions of Basic Instructions in the new comic strip format.
Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry, creators of Brevity will be on the Washington Post’s live discussion tomorrow at 1:00 pm (EST). You can submit questions now.
E&P writes that Khalil Bendib has a new book out entitled, Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons By America’s Most Wanted Political Cartoonist. The book is a collection of hist cartoons. Khalil is perhaps the only Muslim-American editorial cartoonist in the United States. He self-syndicates to over “1,700 small and mid-sized newspapers as well as on Web […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is offering a number of scholarships to college students for the 2008-2009 academic year. For applicants who qualify, they must download an application and submit a 5 sample portfolio to the foundation for review. The site does not mention the criteria for selecting the winners. The number and amounts are […]
MSNBC editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle has posted a brief criticism of cartoon awards and those who chase them. We’re a competitive bunch, and our profession has fallen on hard times, so I suppose it is natural for cartoonists to want to seek consolation in awards; that’s fine with me – but I think editorial cartoonists […]
Dave Astor has profiled The Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey – one of the most prolific editorial cartoonist blogger – he’ll be soon posting his 3000th blog post. The blog is the second most popular blog and one of the top 15 most viewed features on the Clarion-Ledger’s web site. Some interesting tidbits from the […]
Over on Jimmy Johnson’s blog comes news that someone is auctioning a full year of newspaper clippings of his feature Arlo and Janis on Ebay. The clippings are from the year 1990 and includes only the dailies. See auction page. The bidding started at $26 and Jimmy has posted the first and so far only […]
Local black leaders in Jacksonville Florida area are demanding an apology, the firing of Florida Times-Union’s editorial cartoonist Ed Gamble and the inclusion of an African-American on the paper’s editorial board over one of Ed’s editorial cartoons that depicted a gunman wearing a “Don’t Snitch” t-shirt calling two little children a “good little ho!” See […]