Diesel Sweeties © Richard Stevens. Used by permission of United Media. All Rights Reserved. What looks to be the first comic strip launch of 2007, United Media will launch Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens. Diesel Sweeties is about a love relationship between a robot named Clango Cyclotron and his human girlfriend. The feature has been […]

Back in July I interviewed the management of most of the major syndicates regarding how they viewed their future in an industry that many think is in decline. For the most part, they were very upbeat, positive and even bullish on the newspaper industry. They probably could have sensed from my line of questioning, that […]

Mike Rhode over at the ComicDC blog mentions that the Cartoon American exhibit in the Library of Congress has been extended for another month. The new close date is February 24th.

Brian Fairrington, syndicated editorial cartoonist with Cagle Cartoons, is designing the new look for “Artie the Artichoke” – the school mascot for Scottsdale Community College. You can see Brian’s work on the voting page where students vote for their favorite. Fairrington said he enjoyed working on the project. But the cartoonist said it’s challenging to […]

Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for The Examiner in DC, began blogging in November. His blog posts contain his cartoons with commentary about it.

Here’s a quick run down of the pickups and droppings this week. The Observer in Dunkirk, NY has picked up Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse which will replace Bill Amends FoxTrot that is dropping its daily feature.Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy is on a trial run at the Gazette-Times (Corvallis, OR). To make room, […]

Bill King, the editorial cartoonist for the Asbury Park Press has died at age 84.

Over on the AAEC web site are the deadlines and information to enter the 10 annual major editorial cartooning contests. The list includes: National Headliner Awards Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award The Thomas Nast Award Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards The Herblock Prize The Pulitzer Prize Sigma Delta Chi Award For students: Mark of […]

According to the AAEC web site, Jeff Darcy, editorial cartoonist for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, will resume his duties at the paper sometime in 2007 after suffering a stroke in early November of this year. He quips: “This means that from now on I can only draw cartoons on the right,” he quipped […]

According to a story in the Indianapolis Star, Bruce Tinsley, creator of Mallard Fillmore, was arrested on the 4th of this month on for driving while intoxicated. His blood-alcohol level was .14 – twice the state level.This is his second DUI in the last four months. The previous incident occurred on August 26th.

Rob Cabrera writes in to tell me that the final days of his Silo Roberts comic was dropped from comics.com due to a “major glitch.” Fans of the strip that have been left hanging from the last installments can head over to Rob’s web site to see the last printed Silo Roberts.

Just went over to GoComics to check out Matt Davies first foray into comic stripping as he temporarily takes over on Scott Stantis‘ Prickly City for the next week. Looks like today’s toon is mostly a set up the rest of the week, but his depiction of Winslow and Carmen are good.

The Library of Congress has posted video of the speakers of the opening of the Cartoon America exhibit in the Library of Congress. Speakers included: Jules Feiffer, Brian Walker, Ann Telnaes, and Kevin Kallaugher. Running time is 46 minutes.

Newsweek magazine (at least its online edition) is looking at the evolution of editorial cartooning from print to animation. Interviewees include Walt Handelsman, Ted Rall, and of course the pioneering Mark Fiore. Newsday’s Walt Handelsman isn’t as grim about print. But the Pulitzer Prize winner is online now, tooâ??a year ago he taught himself Flash […]

Today in cartoon history marks the death of Thomas Nast, who is best known for his cartoons regarding Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. He is also credited for creating the images of the modern Santa Claus, the Democrat’s donkey, the GOP elephant, and Uncle Sam. He was born September 27, 1840 in Germany, came to […]