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 […]

A holiday season give-away prize has been announced for those who bought Patrick McDonnell’s (Mutts) new book “The Gift of Nothing.”Each winner was randomly selected, and recieved a special WINNER button with the purchase of Patrick’s new book, “The Gift of Nothing”. Each was then entered into a special drawing to determine a grand prize […]

I always wondered what how involved Matt Groening (Life in Hell, The Simpsons) was in the production of The Simpsons. I presumed that after 17 years, it had his name on it, but most of the heavy lifting was done by others. According to this article in the Seattle Times, he is still very much […]

At age 90, Morris Weiss, who did the ‘Mickey Finn‘ feature from 1968 to 1976,  is a living link to a generation of cartoonists that have faded into history.  The West Palm Beach resident is 90, tall, slender, white-haired, soft-voiced. Married for 61 years to wife Blanche, with four kids, he offers up many rich […]

E&P has a story on why Nick Anderson is leaving the Courier-Journal for the Houston Chronicle.Whatever the attractions of Houston, Anderson wasn’t looking to go to the Chronicle or anywhere else. “They contacted me out of the blue in August or September,” he recalled. “I was skeptical. I had the perfect situation in Louisville.” Anderson […]

The Cartoon Art Museum will spotlight Will Eisner on February 5th.Will Eisner, one of the most influential and respected cartoonists of all time, passed away on Monday, January 3, following complications from open-heart surgery. Eisner is renowned worldwide as one of the most important creators in the history of comics, with a career spanning nearly […]

From The Pilot (North Carolina) comes the sad news of the passing of Stan Hunt who was their editorial cartoonist for about 9 years.  He was also an illustrator and a golf columnist. He was 77 years old.After his military service, Hunt attended New York School of Art, where he studied airbrush and photo retouching. […]

If you can’t make it to the Museum of Modern Art in New York to see the exhibit on Pixar, it appears you might see the same, or perhaps a similar exhibit in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum.  On their home page they have this teaser:SAVE THE DATE! Twenty Years Behind the Scenes […]

According to this Universal Press Press release, the comic feature Pooch Café, by Paul Gilligan, has been returned to it’s spot in the South China Morning Post after an outpouring of complaints when it was dropped to make room for Sudoku puzzles.?Since we dropped the Pooch Café comic strip from our Diversions page several weeks […]

According to Rina Piccolo’s web site, the New York Daily News has picked up her strip ‘Tina’s Groove’.Tina?s Groove can now be seen in the New York Daily News! If you?re in NYC, pick up a copy and check it out. The strip can be seen daily from Monday to Saturday.Technorati Tags: Rina Piccolo, Tina’s […]

Steve Nease had 15 cartoons published in the Portfoolio 21 this year – more than any other cartoonist. Steve Nease has 15 cartoons in Portfoolio 21, The Year’s Best Canadian Editoral Cartoons– that’s the most of the 42 artists who cracked this year’s edition. “It’s always an honour to be included in the annual best-of […]

Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, has apologized for a recent cartoon depicting two cowboys around the campfire and one of them singing, “It?s been six long weeks since I seen a woman, and yer startin? to look pretty good.” The caption reads “jeremiah’s last song.” Many felt the cartoon advocated or condoned the killing of […]