Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson recently posted his “16 Awesome Websites, Apps & Tools for Web Cartoonists.” Post goes into analytics, hosting, credit card processing, etc.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Global TV did not adequately warn its viewers of a violet part of a Family Guy episode in which Elmer Fudd shoots Bugs Bunny at close range and Bugs “died in a prolonged and dramatic manner.” The network must tell its viewers that it violated the Canadian […]

The Key West Art and Historical Society opened an exhibit of editorial cartoonist and Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters last week. It’s the first show that featured both his editorial cartoons and comic strip.“This exhibit is a self-portrait of the artist,” said Claudia Pennington, executive director of the society. “It looks into the […]

The droll, understated style of Wiley Miller makes him probably the best cartoonist to address this issue. Given deadlines, this would be quite a buzzer-beater if he had drawn it after Limbaugh’s attack, though there are times when the first cartoon of the next set can be more timely than usual. But I’m assuming he just picked […]

My only quibble with today’s Rhymes with Orange is that Farmer Brown Inc. isn’t waiting for the chickens to get past their egg-laying years.Though, of course, the hen is only passing on what she has heard.Fair enough. It’s a common mistake to assume some thread of logic in these matters.I reported on business for about […]

Dan Piraro hits on one of the great elements of not-getting-it in today’s Bizarro.Does anybody still use this word as a noun? I remember having a discussion about it in the newsroom about 20 years ago, but having a woman publisher and a woman city editor, it was a short discussion. Women students at Plattsburgh […]

Things could be worse, Dagwood.At least Blondie isn’t playing the “Guess which movie we’re watching tonight?” game with you. That’s the one where she says she’s going to let you pick the movie and then vetoes each of your suggestions until you get to the one she wanted to watch in the first place.Not sure […]

The Cartoonist Studio has announced they are launching a digital publishing company called Crazy Goat Publishing. The new company will focus on cartoons, apps and graphic novels to be distributed through its website and appropriate app markets (Droid, iTunes app store, etc.). They’ve already converted some of their members print books into ebook format including […]

The Joe Palooka comic strip is back, but not in newspapers. According to CBS News boxing announcer Joe Antonacci has purchased the rights to the character and is reworking the boxing champion character into a “mixed martial arts fighter” to be released as comic books. You can see the samples of the comic book online.The […]

When I interviewed Jan Eliot back in 2003 (it says “1993” there, but don’t be fooled), she described Luci’s only-slightly-older brother Max thusly: “”Max is almost like a pet … He’s a little sprite, meant to be always clinging to Joan’s leg, that little piece of chaos which is the reality of a mom’s life. He’s […]

John Read enjoyed a 21 year career in the entertainment industry (movies, commercials) and teaching cartooning to kids age 7-12. Inspired by Jud Hurd’s Cartoonists PROfiles, he started Stay Tooned! magazine. John shared the four things NOT to do with your cartooning career and the 12 you should.Notes: Stay Tooned! is an old school magazine. […]

Mark Parisi is the creator of the comic panel Off The Mark and his wife, Lynn Reznick Parisi, is the business manager for the strip. Off the Mark has been sold both in and out of syndication (currently syndicated through Universal Uclick). He’s been doing paid cartooning professionally since 1987 when his feature was picked […]

The first speakers in the Success in Comics Seminar were also the hosts: Chad Carpenter, creator of Tundra and Bill Kellogg who has sold the strip to over 500 newspapers. Chad first talked about getting into cartooning and how he made the strip a success as regional comic in Alaska and then Bill talked about […]

The conservative group One Million Moms has demanded in a letter that Toys ‘R’ Us remove all Just Married – Archie comic books from their stores. In the issue the character Kevin Keller (the comic’s first gay character) gets married to his partner.The letter posted on Media Bistro:As a mother and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, […]

Signe Wilkinson comments on the latest school shootings, in a world where “school shootings” can be classified as “latest.”I like her approach, which avoids the self-important hyperventilation that generally follows these events, as Ruben Bolling pointed out a dozen years ago in the wake of Columbine:By contrast, Wilkinson has been consistent and pragmatic in her […]