In observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, I will not be posting news to the blog this weekend. See you all on Tuesday.

Classic Media will be releasing a four disk set of the original Dick Tracy TV series that ran between 1961 and 1964 on September 26th to celebrate Dick Tracy’s 75th anniversary. 

For the second time in a year, Scott Adams is using his blog to solicit material for a gag he’s working on. The first time was a request for a “realistic sounding sentence that Dilbert would utter that is mind-numbingly technical and still realistic.”  This round he’s asking for “the worst/funniest thing that you could be accused of doing in the office.”

Greg Evens’ Luann has a new book entitled “Luann 3: Sixteen Isn’t Pretty” that will be released this September. From the promo: Luann manages to get through each day thanks to her two best friends, Bernice and Delta. She also receives guidance and suggestions (not that she wants them) from her parents. The collection is […]

I found an article in the Free Lance-Star that talks about how topical Herblock cartoons are decades after he drew them.  The story is accompanies by several images of this cartoons – dealing with wire-tapping, the religious right, and the deficit.

Drawn! had a link a couple of days ago pointing visitors to  “Bill Watterson’s Rarest” – a site dedicated to chronicling artwork produced by Bill before and during the Calvin and Hobbes years. They also point to another site Calvin & Hobbes: Magic on Paper which is much of the same, perhaps even more detailed.  If you’re a Calvin and Hobbes fan, these are great sites to check out.

E&P has a great story on Clay Bennett’s year as president of the AAEC (whose term ends this tomorrow).  Some of the things I know he had to deal with was the number of cartoonists that lost their jobs or took buyouts: Michael Ramirez, Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher, Stacy Curtis, Tim Menees, David Simpson, and Larry Wright each walked out the door of their respective newspapers – only Michael has regained a staff cartoonist position.

Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes will be the next guest cartoonist on the Washington Post’s Meet the Artist chat session.  Agnes is in a eight week tryout with the Post and that is the topic of the conversation. 

Glenn McCoy will be a featured speaker at the Missouri Press Association’s annual convention this September 15th.  He’ll talk about the art of editorial cartooning. Glenn produced editorial cartoons that are syndicated through Universal Press as well as the creator of The Duplex and co-creator of The Flying McCoys which he produces with his brother Gary.

Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) has been a big supporter of Animal rights. Not only has he been nominated for a third term on the board of directors of The Humane Society of the United States, but he’s championed programs to reunite lost animals with their owners after Hurricane Katrina.  Last year, he ran a six day series depicting the rescue of a dog stranded on a New Orleans rooftop.  That series has now been made available as unsigned collectible posters.

Lynn Johnston has a new For Better or For Worse book collection coming out in the coming weeks. This one entitled, She’s Turning Into One Of Them is a daily and Sunday collection and is published through Andrews McMeel Publishing.

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Just a friendly heads up that in the next couple of days, I’ll be moving this blog to another hosting provider.  For most of you the transition will be seamless and you’ll never know that anything had changed.  During the 2-3 days that the DNS record is propagated throughout the Internet, there will actually be two instances of the Daily Cartoonist running – one on the old server environment and another in the new.  The only complication this creates is if someone makes a comment on a posting on the old server after I’ve moved all the content to the new.  In such cases, I’ll do my very best to catch all comments and move them over manually.

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From the Aaugh blog, comes news that a book is being written that includes the complete collection of cartoons that Charles Schulz did for Warner Press/Youth Magazine – the topic: Teenagers.  The collection will include over 250 cartoons from the mid ’50s through ’60s.  The book will be published by About Comics.

The Dallas Morning News recently interviewed Scott Stantis about his Prickly City feature and Scott tells his views on what makes a great comic, what it’s like being married to a ‘liberal,’ and a brief mention of his podcast.