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.

Mike Lynch, the ever present with camera cartoonist, has this year’s Bunny Bash documented with photos.

Jan Eliot’s current story line about Joan’s pregnancy and baby delivery is being met by many midwives and mothers as a welcomed examination of alternative childbirth methods discussed on the comic pages. Jan is receiving many emails on a daily basis supporting the current story line. From one email: So many people believe that the […]

The second annual Science Idol editorial cartoon contest is now open for public voting. The contest is sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists who use the competition to draw attention to political interference in scientific issues. The final judges are James McCloud (last year’s winner), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Tom Toles (Washington Post) and Dave […]

Mike Lynch profiles editorial can gag cartoonist Eldon Pletcher, who once drew for the Souix City Journal (1949-1966) and New Orleans Times Picayune (1966-1983).

Across the pond, the Guradian’s editorial cartoonist, Steve Bell, has posted a slide show of his cartoons depicting outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair over the years in office.

Comic Reporter Tom Spurgeon reports that the Andy Capp statue that was proposed last fall will be unveiled later this week. I haven’t been able to get to the Hartlepool Mail’s web site to actually read the details. Once the site is serving out pages again, I’ll see what new developments have been made.UPDATED: The […]