Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald, Serge Chapleau of Montreal?s La Presse and Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail have been nominated for the prestigious National Newspaper Award.From the Canadian Cartoonist’s web site:Mr. MacKinnon, whose work in The Chronicle Herald has garnered international recognition in the past, has been nominated for a 2005 National […]

Slightly off topic – but Marvel and DC comics are demanding that they joint-own the word “super-hero.” Marvel Comics is continuing in its bid to steal the word “super-hero” from the public domain and put it in a lock-box to which it will control the key. Marvel and DC comics jointly filed a trademark on […]

Boondock is gone as is Alley Oop to make room for Sudoku. Read quote below for other changes.You will also notice some changes to our comics page. Gone will be the Boondocks and Alley Oop strips. Aaron McGruder, the creator of Boondocks has opted to take a six-month hiatus. We decided not to run previously […]

Slightly off-topic, but of interest. An article on this weekends NY Times about how chatty modern animation has become and how they’ve lost the art of pantomine. It’s an interesting read by itself, but with the announcement of a new feature called “Lio“by Mark Tatulli – which is being sold as a pantomine feature, I […]

The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection recently received a gift of over 2,000 comic books, magazines and comic strips. The OCC can be seen at the Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley. They have an impressive number of work from very influential cartoonists.Those Oklahoma cartoonists with work in the collection now include Chester Gould (Dick […]

Those in the Toledo OH area, can visit the Toledo Museum of Art to see Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson’s original editorial cartoons on display. Nick is a Toledo native. The Show runs March 31 through June 25. A new exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art draws its inspiration from those cartoons that […]

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 […]