To what extent are newspapers supposed to edit or fact check the content of comic strips? That’s the topic a column by Manning Pynn, the Public Editor at the Orlando Sentinel, who recently had to deal with a reader who questioned the factuality of a Mallard Fillmore strip regarding taxes. The tax question involved was […]

Earlier this month, I posted a brief on how The Capital, Annapolis MD, was considering dropping Cathy to make room for Pearls Before Swine. Two weeks, and 305 emails later, the editor has decided to keep Cathy. BUT! the Pearl supporters were significant enough that the editor would like to cancel something else to make […]

Tony Carrillo received some positive press from the Arizona Republic who did a large feature on the launch of his feature “F Minus.” The story talks about how F Minus grew from a college strip to a big time syndicated feature.The comic got its start with a student audience. It was printed inside ASU’s student-run […]

I tend not to pay attention to international cartooning news, but I thought this one is newsworthy because of its uniqueness. Editorial cartoonists in Iraq are enjoying their new found freedom of expression. With few restrictions on speech now, dozens of newspapers have blossomed in Iraq, and all the major ones seem to run one […]

The Kansas City star is adding three new features to their line-up. Starting today, readers are getting their first look at Darrin Bell’s “Candorville,” John Kovaleski’s “Bo Nanas,” and Scott Stantis’ “Prickly City.” No mention was made if other features were being dropped to make room for these three.

“Doonesbury” character Alex has been deciding on which college to attend and has been accepted at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – fictionally of course. The attention that RIT is getting has made RIT officials giddy.R-I-T officials have been getting a kick out of the comic strip recognition. They say R-I-T would […]

Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian, spoke Wednesday to The Dalles – part of a series of lectures on the campus of Columbia George Community College. And when asked if he thought his art made a difference in politics he had this to say: “Sometimes I go to bed at night feeling that I […]

A couple of weeks, I go I posted a story about the Hamilton College Editorial Cartooning Symposium featuring Tony Auth, Rob Rogers among others. Here now is a follow up story on the event and a bit about what each of the speakers spoke about.Rogers, who followed with slides of his work, said, “I think […]

Daryl Cagle writes on his blog about the “Hannity and Colmesification” of editorial cartooning – where in cartoonists are labelled liberal or conservative despite taking the same position about 90% of the time. It’s an interesting read (scroll down to the April 13 posting).We thought we would try a little experiment. We started labeling our […]

I promise I don’t have an agenda or am getting paid to promote Dan Piraro, but he has certainly received quite a bit of digital ink here on the Daily Cartoonist recently. I’m not entirely sure how I came across this, but Dan has started a blog over at MySpace.com. So far the postings are […]

I’m highly suspicious of this little tidbit out of story in the Providence Journal (RI). In a story about how fifth grade students researched professions based on what they enjoy doing as a hobby, one such student claims to have interviewed Bill Watterson. So let’s get this straight. A fifth grader in Rhode Island, several […]

I enjoy reading the Stripper’s Guide – a blog focused on comic strip history maintained by historian Allan Holtz. One of his latests posts is regarding cartoonists that made the headlines (of the 1930’s). One such tidbit from these archives is the mention that Gary Cooper (who won an Oscar in 1952 for his role […]

The Orange County Register recently took a poll with nearly 3,000 respondents to come up with the best and worst comics on the funny pages (of the OCR). The top honors go to “For Better or for Worse” by Lynn Johnston “Luann” by Greg Evans, “Foxtrot” by Bill Amend “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz and […]

Doonesbury character “Rev. Sloan” was modeled after William Sloane Coffin – a former Yale University chaplain. William Sloan Coffin passed away yesterday. The relevant text from the AP story from the NY Times is below.William Sloane Coffin was immortalized in the ”Doonesbury” comic strip when its creator, fellow Yale graduate Garry Trudeau, blended his character […]

I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA. In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail as […]