From Editor and Publisher: Editorial cartoonist Doug MacGregor of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., donated a kidney last month to a close friend he met 34 years ago in ninth grade.Both are recovering well.

Lots of good stuff on Chip’s new blog. He’s just as funny in his writing as he is in his editorial cartooning. More editorial cartoonists should have blogs.

A post on Jason Kottke blog yesterday explored who really was the first super hero (and how do you define a super hero). He maintains that the first super hero was Mandrake the Magician which debuted in newspapers in 1934 – four years before Superman.Toonpedia.com provides some historical information on the strip (which is still […]

Dynamic due Daryl Cagle and Brian Fairrington have collaborated once again on another editorial cartoon collection book. This book, The Big Book of Bush Cartoons is listed on Amazon.com, but has not begun shipping.

The Times Mail, Bedford, Indiana, ran a story yesterday reporting the results of a survey taken of their readers on which strips should go and which new strips should get coveted spot in the funny section. Zits and Luann took the top honors with Get Fuzzy in third. Pat Brady’s Rose is Rose will be […]

The Kitsap Sun is a paper in Bremerton WA where Tim Meenes grew up. They’ve published a profile piece on Tim Meenes, editorial cartoonist for the Post Gazette newspaper in Pittsburgh. The article requires free registration.

If you’re into collecting cartoon memorabilia, you might be interested in this complete collection of buttons. “All of the participating cartoonists were alive and created self-portraits specifically for this button set.”It’s definitely worth a peak. Why don’t cartoonists do something like that today? It’s like having something akin to baseball cards for the cartooning industry. […]

David Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, has been awarded the Lee Spirit Award which “recognizes outstanding citizenship and personal commitment to the community and Lee” (Lee being the owner of 58 daily papers across the country). In the past year, he made 118 personal appearances, before crowds as small as […]

For those cartoonists/readers who bemoan the continued existence of comics that survive long after the orginal creator has died, this will not be received as good news: Little Nemo has turned 100 years old.In another effort to goad such readers, may I also remind them that the creator of Little Nemo was born in 1867!Link […]

Peanuts has dominated the Daily Cartoonist postings this last two weeks, but here goes another one: Namco America has announced a deal with United Media to bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang to mobile starting in Spring 2006. No information was given as to which phones or phone carriers would […]

The Book Standard is running a story that there were not enough “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” printed to meet the holiday demand.Book retailers are frustrated that Andrews McMeel is not filling all the pre-orders for the collection, but Andrews McMeel maintains that the small print run was an effort to “create a collectible ‘limited […]

James O. Goldsborough, a former columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune makes a claim that editorial cartoonist Steve Breen is living “under daily censorship.”When I left, Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist, lived under daily censorship. It was not unusual for Breen’s best cartoons, which are syndicated, to run in newspapers around the country but […]

Creators Syndicate has picked up on a new feature from John Sherffius, former editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The feature “Sam and Me” is about a grandfather helping raise his grand-daughter.Link to story

Editor and Publisher is reporting that New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss has launched a new comic panel syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The description of the panel from TMS’s web site reads:Each panel is a sharp and smart look at the paradoxes of life ranging from lust and love to misfortune and bitterness. Bliss cartoons […]

Current Events magazine is sponsoring an editorial cartoon contest.. The prize is only $50, so it probably isn’t a contest for professional editorial cartoonists. Perhaps a hungry college cartoonist can take a swing at it.Cartoon must by post marked by October 28.