Boston’s Channel 5 did an in-depth look at comics and featured several New England area comic creators include Off the Mark’s Mark Parisi, Secret Asian Man’s Tak Toyoshima, Boston Globe editorial cartoonist Dan Wasserman among others.No embedded video option, head over to see the segment on Mark, or Tak and Dan.

King Features’ online offerings include a blog by the archivist that, at the moment, includes some memories, and much of the sales package, for Jeff MacNelly’s “Shoe.” You should go read that, but the short version is that MacNelly, who acquired some fame in editorial cartooning circles for proving that “conservative” and “funny” were not […]

A recent post by Jim Romenesko regarding impending layoffs at the Cleveland Plain Dealer raised concerns that editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy might be one of the unfortunate staffers. I have good news to report. Jeff tells me his job is secure and that they will actually be printing his work larger.He writes: My work will […]

After 28 years at the Green Bay Press-Gazette, editorial cartoonist Joe Heller was told he was part of a Gannett-wide layoff plan. As with many, many others who have faced this scenario, I asked Joe to give me an exit interview.Alan: How long have you been at the Green Bay Press-Gazette? Joe: 28 yearsAlan: How […]

Jason Sacks posts 10 thoughts about Jack Kirby’s career. The rise of the Marvel Universe in the 1960s was basically unplanned It’s striking how haphazardly everything developed at Marvel in the 1960s. Few things were ever planned in any detail; especially the brilliant Fantastic Four run. As Hatfield reports, the Silver Surfer first appeared because […]

Are memes the new editorial cartoons? Maybe. At least based on this trending graph on searches on Google on the terms ‘political cartoons’ (blue) and ‘meme’ (red), it would appear those with staff jobs need to put aside their pen and ink and find more photos of kittens saying the darndest things.

If God were a computer, undoubtedly, He’d blow up the world, because that would be the “answer.” — Phil OchsWell, God isn’t a computer and so there are other, more nuanced and compassionate answers to the problems of the world, but, so far, as Rob Rogers suggests, the most promising pontiff since John XXIII is […]

Ann Telnaes doesn’t do a lot of non-animated cartoons these days — or at least not where I can find them — but, besides her current, animated work, she keeps a modest blog that is worth visiting and which she illustrates most times with something small, perhaps clipped from an earlier piece.So I was delighted […]

The fine folks over at GoComics have been doing these one-hour online Q&A sessions each month for a while, but I’ve done a bad job reporting it. For August, the cartoonists who will be in the hot seat include Rob Harrell (Adam@Home and Big Top), Darrin Bell (Candorville), Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler (Gray Matters), […]

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has announced a contest for the best comment (funny and non-snarky) on four different online platforms where his strip runs. Up for grabs is a personalized original drawing of an Edison character (your choice). This is an eight week contest with winners announced every Monday.The four […]

And now it’s Derf Backderf’s turn: “Coach wants to see you. Bring your sketchbook.”This is the last “The City” strip, at least, the last one in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which joins other Advance Publications newspapers next week in going to a four-day-a-week home delivery schedule, and not only eliminates the section his weekly strip […]

Good news! Sedition charges against Singapore based cartoonist Leslie Chew have been dropped. Chew, 37, had been arrested in April this year for alleged sedition in relation to a cartoon which was posted on his comic series “Demon-cratic Singapore” on Facebook on March 27. He was released on bail on April 21. AGC said following […]

The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon is donating millions of dollars to charity after being given prognosis of terminal colon cancer with three to six months to live.From Hollywood Reporter: THR: You said to Marc Maron on his podcast that you’ve been aggressive about the giving you’ve done, that you are giving most of all you […]

Joe Macare of Truthout interviews editorial cartoonist Matt Bors.From Truthout: JM: Your work, as the book showcases, includes editorial cartoons, graphic journalism and prose essays. Can you talk a little about why you do each type of work? MB: I consider comics a writing job and I’ve always wanted to stretch out and make longer […]