E&P has leaked what they are reporting as some of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. For editorial cartooning the names include: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Nick Anderson with the Houston Chronicle, and Mike Thompson at the Detroit Free Press.A blog named “Blogging New Orleans” reports that Walt had asked the Pulitzer board if animated […]

Mark Tatulli gets an extensive write-up in the Philadelphia Inquirer this week in part as the Inquirer will be running Lio beginning on Monday. Some of the more interesting tidbits gleaned from the article: Mark has had to reel back the dark side of Lio because of complaints that it was too dark Mark is […]

Back in December I wrote about a blog post by Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, that opined that Bill Gates would make a good U.S. president. The idea caught fire in parts of the blogosphere and a grass-roots effort was made to recruit the billionaire. That grass-root effort has thrown in the towel: We’ve tried… We […]

For Better or For Worse character Farley will soon be appearing on Ontario license plates according to E&P. A portion of the proceeds for each plate will go to the Farley Foundation – a charitable organization that subsidizes medical care for pets that belong to senior citizens or persons with disabilities. Farley was a lovable […]

Four cartoonists Charlos Gary (Working It Out), Jerry Craft (Momma’s Boyz), Cory Thomas (Watch Your Head) and editorial cartoonist Tim Jackson will be on hand at Alfred University on March 17 to provide personal lessons on cartooning for children ages 6-17. The event is part of the university’s Drawn to Diversity annual program to explore […]

Maintaining by Nate Creekmore. Used by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All Rights Reserved.Coming May 7th, Universal Press will debut its first comic strip of 2007 called Maintaining by Nate Creekmore. Maintaining was first published in the Lipscomb University paper, The Babbler, in 2003 and won the prestigious Charles M. Schulz Award for best college […]

Darrin Bell is getting letters from Candorville fans asking why his feature has been dropped from the LA Times without notice. It’s not just his feature, but also La Cucaracha and Mallard Fillmore that have disappeared. The blog, LA Observed, also mentions that Mr. Boffo is also a casualty in this decision. Both Darrin and […]

Mary Worth’s continued success despite often coming low in the popularity polls is not lost on Barry Alfonso, a journalist, who wrote an indepth analysis/tribute to the remarkable staying power of Mary Worth. The slightly doughy but innately elegant Mary embodies a civility that is fading out of real life. Moreover, the very pace of […]

Modeled somewhat after Joel Pett’s Toon-op that runs in the LA Times, Daryl Cagle has started a similar feature reviewing the current events with cartoons. The new feature will be written by his daughter Susie. From his blog: I’ve never seen anything like this in syndication, probably because cartoons and the written word are very […]

This week’s Toon-op was done by Jim Morin who won this year’s Herblock Prize. Jim’s selection of cartoons for the LA Times came from his own portfolio and included his commentary on the impact of Herblock on his own cartooning. Joel Pett, who usually does the feature, is off this week.

Clay Jones writes in to alert me that Chuck Asay, editorial cartoonist for the Colorado Springs daily is retiring after the paper announced that it was reducing its staff. Chuck has been cartooning in Colorado Springs for the last 28 years.The Gazette’s editorial page editor gives Chuck a pretty good send off on their web […]

From this article from the Post-Star comes confirmation to what I had suspected – that it was the syndicate that had convinced Lynn Johnston to keep For Better or For Worse going in what is being called a “hybrid” format. Q: How did this hybrid idea come about? A: It was suggested to me by […]

I took today and tomorrow off from work to take care of some personal matters and I won’t have much opportunity to blog the rest of the day, though I hope to be back to full blogging speed tomorrow.

Last December Aaron Johnson created a bingo board to track his comic strip submission to the big six syndicates. He’s been updating it as the responses have come in. The submission went out on the 21st and Tribune Media responded back on the 29th which is impressively fast considering it’s also during the holiday season. […]

Jeff Danziger will be on hand in Vermont to talk and show slides of his cartoons next Thursday at the Tunbridge Public Library at 7 p.m.