Efforts are underway to create an exhibit to honor Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valient. Harold R. Foster was a native of Nova Scotia. According to his obituary in 1982, written by the Associated Press, he rode a bicycle to Chicago–1,670 miles over 14 days–around 1919 to attend the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy […]

The Lexington Art League has a yearly exhibit of international artists drawing the nude figure. Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant was a judge and will be speaker.For the Nude International 2006 exhibit, Patrick Oliphant, Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist, anonymously juried 832 entries. Mr. Oliphant selected the 106 displayed artworks. From the classics to the […]

There are two stories out of Editor and Publisher about Michael Ramirez’s move the the Investor’s Business Daily.The first explains why Michael decided to go to a niche publication rather than a general daily.“Bill O’Neil, IBD’s founder and chairman, was very convincing,” replied Ramirez, when interviewed Tuesday by E&P. “And he offered me a position […]

I saw this post on several sites yesterday. If you’ve ever wondered about studying at the “Center for Cartoon Studies” (or even wondered what goes on there), this is a great post one individuals visit to their open house. Lots of photos. I recently had the opportunity to attend an Open House at the Center […]

There is a must read on Windsor McKay and the incredible breadth of work that he did. I was not aware that he had created anything other than “Little Nemo,” but he had a successful strip called “The Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend” which was more dark and for an adult reader. He was also […]

Slate’s Michael Kinsley has a good article on the newspaper’s efforts to play catch-up in the new techno world. Ten years later, newspapers are starting to panic again. But merely slobbering after bloggers may not be enough. In 1996, the oldest Americans who grew up with computers and don’t even understand my tiresome anecdotes about […]

The Daily World has picked up Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits – but at the expense of Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rod Perry’s ‘Brevity’.?Zits,? which has become one of America?s hottest comic strips in the past three years, makes its daily debut in The Daily World today. The King Features strip by Jerry Scott and […]

If you’re following the ‘dating’ life of Knight Ridder newspaper, this article will give you and update on who’s interested to buy the chain.A financial buyer, such as the new consortium, would take on a heavy debt load and likely cut jobs, install new management and sell off noncore and struggling assets to improve the […]

On the Editorial Cartoonist web site, they’re reposting a story that ran in the “The Business Journal of Phoenix” regarding the plight of the editorial cartoonist. Not much new, but it does talk abit about Steve Benson (AZ Republic), Brian Fairrington (Cagle Cartoons – living in the Phoenix area).Those who have made editorial cartooning their […]

Fans of Michael Jantze’s work, The Norm, will be interested in the release of a new Sunday collection. Available for the first time ever, The Norm Sunday Collection documents the evolution of Michael Jantze’s wildly unique Sunday work. With insight into Michael’s hybrid writing process as well as his approach to illustration using the latest […]

If you’ve done a great cartoon on the topic of call centers, or have a good idea (the cartoon does not have to be published) you might want to enter the Contact Center Cartoon Contest. You get $1 for every vote your cartoon gets with the winning cartoonist taking an additional $3,000 home. Second and […]

Like the statues of the Peanuts gang in Saint Paul Minnesota, the Garfield crew will soon be immortalized throughout Grant County Indiana with statues as a tourist attraction. Town Council member Sue Smith thinks the project will be a great addition to Fairmount’s history. “I think it’s a wonderful thing,” she said. “Of course, James […]

For those of you who made a new years resolution to go digital this year, this little item caught my eye. It’s a laptop whose screen detaches and becomes a tablet that you draw on. No word on when it becomes available to the consumer or the pricing.

Steve Kelley, a political cartoonist from “The New Orleans Times-Picayune,” will be speaking at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel’s annual seminar. He’s spoken there before and this year, he speaks before Dan Rather, former CBS News anchor. According to the schedule, his talk is entitled, “Art Irritates Life”.

The Canadian Securities Administrators has launched a web site to help people teach people about investing and saving. The site uses Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse to introduce and discuss the four life events when one ought to be thinking about their finances. Canada’s securities regulators are hoping a new website enlivened by […]