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.

Tomorrrow, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will be on hand and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning to teach a 2 hour class on editorial cartooning. The session costs about $25.

Buy Stick by Steve Breen at Amazon.com Lucas Turnbloom writes in to tell me that Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist (and creator of the comic Grand Avenue) Steve Breen has just published his first children’s book entitled Stick. From the Amazon description: Stick is a frog who likes to do things on his own-with no […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has added an online form to raise money to meet a matching grant program that would give the organization $15,000 to be used for their “Cartoons for the Classroom program.” With only three months to go, the AAEC has raised $4,000.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is scheduled to be the keynote commencement speaker at Goucher College in Baltimore MD this May. While many students are excited for his arrival, the college understands there are many who don’t know who Garry is and will be launching a publicity campaign to promote Garry before his arrival. Chris Iseli, […]

I guess I’m not the only one ruminating on who might be up for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning this year. Joe Strupp of Editor and Publisher talked to a few of the jurors that will be in New York next week to evaluate the top journalism talent in the country. One thing they […]

Over at the Universal Press web site is a news release with J.C. Duffy talking about his feature, Fusco Brothers which has been in syndication since 1989 and appears in 100+ papers. As far as the “Fusco Brothers” changing over the past years, they really haven’t much, Duffy confesses. The looks of the “Fusco Brothers” […]

Today marks the official 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. AAEC Secretary-Treasurer V. Cullum Rogers did some digging and found a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation that was dated on today’s date in 1957 by John Stampone. Happy birthday.

While Jim Borgman hints that Garry Trudeau ought to win the Nobel Prize this year, a columnist in the Hamilton Spectator argues that the neo-conservative new line that our failure in Iraq is the Iraqis fault is pervasive that it’s now found itself in Doonesbury. As the people who talked the United States into the […]

Jim Borgman posted has latest cartoon on his blog depicting the Dixie Chicks, and Al Gore with their Grammy and Oscar Awards respectively with President Bush in the background saying, “So now who’s suddenly the good luck charm? Huh? Huh?” The title of the blog post is: “Next: Nobel Prize for Doonesbury.”The title insinuates that […]

Mr. Media has posted a lengthy and interesting interview with Lee Salem, President and Editor at Universal Press Syndicate. Mr. Salem fields questions about his first impressions about Doonesbury, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, Foxtrot, Boondocks, Bloom County and Lio.There’s also an interesting discussion on the Universal Press […]