The Commercial Dispatch has added Mark Tatulli’s Lio, Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe and Phil Frank and Joe Troise’s The Elderberries to their line up. Outgoing strips include The Boondocks, Agnes and Peanuts.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has added Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s Baby Blues to replace The Boondocks.

Joshua Fruhlinger, AKA the Comics Curmudgeon, wrote an op-ed piece for the LA Times about how the comic strip fan community is still vibrant, but increasingly not interested in the reading the comics from a newspaper.He says: The only place you won’t find this kind of enthusiasm is in the newspaper comics pages. Rather than […]

Jules Feiffer is in Arizona this week. Today he speaks at Arizona State University at 4 p.m. to give a presentation called “A Discussion with Feiffer: The Art of Social Commentary on Stage, Film and Paper.” The event is free and open to the public. The Arizona Republic also profiled Jules’ visit.

Robert Cabrera, who launched Silo Roberts in 2004 with United Media, has decided to pull the plug on the strip so that he can attend graduate school for computer animation. I emailed him to confirm the end of his strip and he wrote back the following: The decision to end the strip was difficult, but […]

Steve Sack, editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has been awarded Berryman Cartoonist of the Year by The National Press Foundation. Steve has been with the Star Tribune since 1981. If you’re not familiar with Steve’s work – he’s unique in editorial cartooning as his cartoons often look like they were done in paint […]

From Bill Amend’s web site comes an apology or perhaps better stated as an explanation as to why his November 23rd’s strip mentioned the wrong football schedule. Apparently, Bill used last Thanksgiving’s NFL schedule accidently. The error went out to newspapers and while a correction was made to the web version, that correction was never […]

Patrick McDonnell’s children’s book, Just Like Heaven was featured on the Today Show yesterday morning. The books publisher, Little Brown Books for Young Readers donated 15,000 copies to the Today Show’s annual toy drive. They’ve posted the segment online for your viewing pleasure.

San Antonio Express-News editorial cartoonist John Branch was awarded a Katie Award for best editorial cartoon for his September 2005 cartoon entitled “Katrina pass-the-blame game” which depicted President Bush, New Orlean’s Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco tossing a sand bag around (labeled blame) while the levee behind them continues to pour out […]

I received many an email alerting me to the unfolding story regarding editorial cartoonist José Varela who stormed The Miami Herald office building and threatened its editor and others. I’m sure most of you have read up on the story. The latest news I can find reports that he’s already posted a $75,000 bond. E&P […]

Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter links to an article in the Hartford Courant regarding Garry Trudeau’s The Sandbox – a blog he began this year to allow service men and women to post their experiences over in the Middle East. Kelley’s post was on The Sandbox, a milblog begun earlier this year by […]

The New Jersey Journal has picked up Darrin Bell’s Candorville in place of The Boondocks.

Mike Lynch links to a couple o’ interviews with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro on the topic of veganism and cartooning.

Rich Diesslin writes in to alert me that Mike Luckovich was on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night. He says that the segment was short but had some good anecdotes. The show’s web site mentions Mike’s book, Four More War (Years), so presumably Mike’s appearance is to talk about the book.

The Boston Globe has posted a review of Doug Marlette’s fiction novel, Magic Time. And the Clarion-Ledger has posted an interview with Doug regarding the book. Here’s an excerpt from the interview. Q: In your dedication, you point out that your father looked for the bodies of Schwerner Chaney and Goodman, as if to distinguish […]

Book cover, copyright by Aaron Taylor. Used by permissionAaron Taylor, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Herald, has printed a collection of his best cartoons of 2006. The book is entitled, Elephants, Donkeys, and Cougars…Oh My!Says Aaron:This volume contains a hundred pages of my “greatest hits” since I joined the Herald in September 2005. Special appearances […]