Over on the ComicsReporter.com, Tom Spurgeon received an email from someone in Queens that is reporting that the NY Daily News dropped 1/4 of their comic strips – which amounted to about 5 strips and a puzzle. If the report is true, the affected comics are: Cathy, Agnes, Peanuts Classics, Pooch Cafe, and Girls and […]

E&P’s Dave Astor has talked to Lynn Johnston about her impending “retirement” from the funny pages this year and learns that the For Better or For Worse feature isn’t going away after all – but will morph into a hybrid type feature that will have both new cartoons mixed with old. As Dave describes it: […]

In continued celebration of 10 years with the Clarion-Ledger, Marshall Ramsey’s work will be on exhibit from February 17 â?? April 15, 2007 according to his blog and E&P. The exhibit will have original cartoons and Marshall mentions the possibility of a computer so that attendees can blog their experience. Check his blog for location […]

According to E&P, both Creators and Copley News Service have recently reworked their web sites. Creator’s site is certainly a major step in the right direction. They now feature RSS feeds and a section for news about their creators in the news.

Charles Brubaker writes in to alert me to efforts by Tom Tomorrow to reinstated his This Modern World feature back into the Village Voice. Instead of asking readers to write letters and e-mail to the editor (which Tom claims sometimes hurts the efforts), he created an online petition. At the time of this writing, he’s […]

Beginning this last Sunday, John Marshall, the lead artist on the classic comic Blondie, has his name credited along side of Dean Young as the feature’s creators. John has been the lead artist for Blondie since 2005 and before that was the assistant artist since 2002. The article linked above has some interesting information as […]

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has photos of Diesel Sweeties in newspapers even though the official launch isn’t until Monday. Apparently with FoxTrot leaving, R. Stevens cranked out a “special batch” of Diesel Sweeties for newspapers wanting to begin DS in FoxTrot’s vacant spot.

I’m not sure when the Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award was announced, but on his web site there are the 2006 winners. First place went to Alfredo Sabat for Argentina. Second and third place went to: Jean Planteureux (France) and David Pope (Australia). There were a few Canadian and American cartoonist who received Citations of […]

With a client list of over 1000 newspapers, FoxTrot’s departure is creating a large shift in the number of features that are being picked to fill the vacancy. While I don’t have access to the syndicate’s official numbers, I have collected from google searches a snapshot of some of the changes happening across the country. […]

Corey Pandolph writes in to announce that his efforts to get 200 pre-order sales of this Barkeater Lake book has been achieved and he’s going to move ahead with printing the book. Fans of the strip can still pre-order over on his blog. The re-launch of the comic feature on his web site is January […]

A couple of weeks ago I alerted you to an eerie incident of great intrigue! One of the Garfield statues that were erected in Marion County Indiana to draw tourists to Jim Davis‘ home town/county had been decapitated and police had very few leads as to the culprit. It appears that the case has been […]

The Flying McCoys caption contest that was announced back in October has announced its winner after reviewing over 3000 entries. The winning caption ran on Saturday, December 30 and says: “By the way Jim, here’s that $50 I owe you.” Other captions have been posted on Glenn and Gary McCoy’s web site.

BTW, I’m taking the day off. No updates today. I’ve got a back-log of stories so make sure you return tomorrow!Alan

The behind the scenes events surrounding the Judge Parker creators could be worthy of their own story-line. After receiving a steady flow of complaints and inquiries in the comment section of this blog regarding the abruptly changing artwork of Judge Parker, I started to poke around to see what warranted such a strong reaction. I […]

Editorial cartoonist Justin Bilicki has started a blog. In addition to posting his finished cartoons, Justin also posts his rough sketches.Hat tip: AAEC Web site.