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Kansas City Star dropping two Sunday comic pages

The Kansas City Star will drop two pages from their Sunday comic section to cut expenses.Several changes in FYI and the Sunday comics take effect Sunday and Monday. We like some, and hope you do, too, and regret others. Beginning Sunday, the comics section will lose two pages. Paper is a major cost at any […]

Boondocks to expand to movie and video games

Aaron McGruder, creator of “Boondocks“, has desires to expand his empire. According to this little tidbit on EURWeb, Aaron is aiming for a full feature film as well as video games.Aaron McGruder has revealed plans to expand his ?Boondocks? comic strip and Cartoon Network television series into a feature film and video game, reports Karu […]

Big Nate is now fifteen years old

Big Nate, created by Lincoln Peirce, is celebrating 15 years on the comic pages. From a United Media press release:“When I started Big Nate, one of my goals was to create a comic character who seemed authentic — not a miniature adult, but a believable eleven year-old boy,” creator Lincoln Peirce said. After fifteen years […]

Charlotte Observer will cut paper not people

Good news for employees at the Charlotte Observer, their editor Rick Thames has decided to cut the number of pages in the paper rather than jobs.“Given a choice of where to reduce costs, I?m going to do my best to keep the great staff that we have,” Thames said, citing myriad studies that show readers […]

French and U.S. Artists to Speak at Cartoon Event

American cartoonists will join up with their counterparts from across the pond for a cartoon event called “Drawing Inspiration: The Art of the Editorial Cartoon” sponsored by the French Institute Alliance Francaise.With eye-catching imagery and clever wordplay, an editorial cartoon says far more than a thousand-word article, inspiring us to look at a topic from […]

NYT is losing 20% of it’s local market

According to this New York Post story(free registration required), the New York Times is losing 20% of it’s local market in the boroughs between 2001 and 2004. Since the mid-1990s, the Times has embarked on a strategy to expand nationally to reduce its dependence on the New York ad market while going head-to-head with other […]

Stan Lee to speak in Ohio

Comic book legend Stan Lee will speak in Springfield Ohio on the 24th of January. You can get details at the Springfield News-Sun, including a audio slide show and directions to the event.While he still holds the title of chairman emeritus at Marvel, and continues to write the same syndicated ?Amazing Spider-Man? newspaper strip he […]

Two comic strip artists to appear at Wondercon 2006

According to E&P, two comic strip artists will appear at the upcoming WonderCon, a comic book convention held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Frank Cho, whose feature “Liberty Meadows” is syndicated by Creators and Romona Fradon, the former artist for “Brenda Starr” will appear. WonderCon runs February 10 through 12.If I’m not mistaken, […]

Mall of America’s Camp Snoopy to change name

Back in December, I posted a story about Camp Snoopy losing the right to use the Peanut character’s name. According to this story, negotiations between the supermall and United Media have failed and Camp Snoopy will have to change it’s name.The Bloomington supermall has been unable to come to terms with United Media, which licenses […]

Pat Brady to be judge for National Journalism Awards

Pat Brady, creator of Rose is Rose is one of the judges for the Scripps Howard Fundation’s annual journalism awards.The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of 43 journalists, media professionals and educators who will judge this year’s National Journalism Awards competition. The awards program honors excellence in 17 print, electronic and journalism education […]

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