Yesterday, Clay Bennett was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to talk about Sunshine Week. It’s a great interview. You can see the streaming video on the C-SPAN web site. Click on the Washington Journal Entire Program (03/17/2006) link to launch the video.

McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt admits that even within the next ten years, the online revenue of newspapers will not surpass that of the print versions. Pruitt believes, touchingly, in newspapers. He tells me that newspapers’ online revenues may not exceed print revenues even 10 years hence, which is probably right, and that the growth of […]

The managing editor, Andy Howell, of my local paper, the Standard Examiner, had a column in which he explained that he was on the look out for a new feature to replace Dana Summer’s “Bound and Gagged.” He (the editor) opened his column by explaining that ever since Gary Larson retired he has been disappointed […]

In the area of new collection books that are hitting the book shelves, Stephan Pastis’ “Pearls Before Swine” came out this month. From the United Media press release: In this fourth collection from the award-winning comic strip Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis deploys all the weapons of his comic arsenal in an all-out attack on […]

I’ve mentioned it in passing, but I wanted to give them their own posting. Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett are launching a new comic strip called “On a Claire Day” on April 3rd through Creators. Check out the feature’s web site to see samples. It’s a very funny strip.

Compu-toon creator Charles Boyce will be speaking at a public forum next Tuesday on the topic of “Media Ethics; Cartoons: Politically Incorrect Humor, Free Speech and Con of Interest.” The forum is open to the public. See web site for more details.A free public forum will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 21 at Meyer […]

David Fitzimmons, editorial cartoonist for Arizona Daily Star, is the the master of ceremonies for the local St. Patrick’s day festivities in Tucson AZ.Jácome Plaza is next to the Joel D. Valdez Main Library. The festival starts at 10 a.m., an hour before the start of the about 90-minutelong parade. Vendors will sell ethnic arts, […]

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon art is presenting an exhibit called “She Draws Comics: 100 Years of America’s Women Cartoonists.” As you might deduce from theh title – it’s an exhibit featuring the art of women cartoonists.Celebrate a century of the greatest female practitioners of comic and cartoon art that America has ever seen, […]

Spotted earlier this week on comics.com was this note from Brooke McEldowney: A NOTE TO PIB READERS Every once in a while one stops, pauses to listen to the twittering of birds, to feel the odd zephyr tousle one?s hair ? in other words, to take stock. I did just that recently ? although, it […]

West coast fans of Dan Piraro’s Bizarro have reason to get excited – Dan’s one man comedy show is touring 8 cities in California, Oregon and Washington.“The Bizarro Baloney Show” — written and performed by Piraro — includes 90 minutes of cartoons, animation, video, songs, poems, anecdotes, puppets, costumes, audience participation, and more. Tour dates […]

In a presentation to the women’s fellowship group at Second Congregational Church (Greenwich CT), Jerry Dumas explained that most of his material for his comic feature “Sam and Silo” were from working at home and being with the family.Much of the best grist for Jerry Dumas’ comic strips has been culled from minute observations of […]

According to this site, The Game Factory will be developing a new Garfield game that is set to release next month. Garfield already has 12 titles. The site also mentions that a Garfield movie sequel is to be released later this summer. I’ve been able to confirm that on Wikipedia. while looking for information on […]

Steve Breen, editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union Tribune, recently spoke at the Associated Collegiate Press and talked about his career beginnings and of his comic strip “Grand Avenue.” I’m still looking for a story that captures in more detail his speech. I’ll link to it if one comes available.

Incredibily Edible has licensed the use of Garfield in their bouquets. Let’ see, Garfield underwear for the kids, Garfield tie for dad and now a Garfield edible bouquet for mom. “Garfield is beloved by millions, and we’re thrilled that we’re able to offer his products to our customers,” says Ellen Davis, co-owner of Incredibly Edible […]

E&P reports that Ann Telnaes, the Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist and contributor to the “Six Chix” comic feature distributed by King Features, is leaving the other Chix to concentrate on other efforts.“I have some other projects and ideas I wanted to pursue, so I needed to reclaim some of my time,” said Telnaes, who won […]