I’ve said before that Richard Thompson remembers childhood better than anybody else working that beat, and today’s Cul de Sac is both hilarious on the face of it but also a reminder of how thin the barrier between reality and fantasy was in those days.Never mind the Tooth Fairy and other official fantasies. We also […]

A David Simpson editorial cartoon in the latest issue of The Urban Tulsa might look eerily familiar to fans of the late Jeff MacNelly. The original MacNelly cartoon depicts is a scene of a military junk yard with President Jimmy Carter trying to jump start an aged jet with a beat-up pickup truck. The Simpson […]

Patrick McDonnell will again use his strip to raise awareness for National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week November 6-12. His strip will feature “Shelter Stories” about people who foster shelter animals.

Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis’ new collection Larry in Wonderland: A Pearls Before Swine Collection debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the Paperback Graphic Books category at number one. This week it’s still a ranking title at number three. Book is 128 pages and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Rob Tornoe interviews Creators Syndicate President and Chief Operations Officer Jack Newcombe as he takes the reins of the syndicate started by his father Rick.How do you measure the success of these new features? By the checks that go out to the creators. Every single one comes across my desk and if it?s a number […]

As the rise of the iPhone Apps and other smart phones came on the market, there was a general feeling that if people weren’t willing pay for stuff they can get for free online, maybe they’d be willing to pay for it if it came packaged as an app. That seems to be true according […]

Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a high school honors student and Pakistani immigrant, was arrested last week on charges of “material support of terrorism” in connection to Colleen LaRose (AKA Jihad Jane) who was arrested for plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. He was only 15 when he got involved (just turned 18 last week). The […]

I haven’t received my copy yet, but according to The Guardian, the Steve Jobs biography mentions specifically Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore and the embarrassing episode for Apple after Mark had won the Pulitzer and the public learned Apple had previously barred Mark’s cartoon app from their App Store because it criticized public figures. After […]

Another group of National Cartoonists Society cartoonists have head out overseas with the USO to visit with troops serving in Germany and the Middle East. This year, the deployed cartoonists consisted of Todd Clark, Paul Combs, Bruce Higdon, Bill Janocha, T. Lewis, John Read III, Debbie Schafer, Rob Smith, Jr., Ed Steckley and Sam Viviano. […]

One of the books my father gave me in my adult years was his copy of “Best of Yank,” a wartime compilation of that landmark newspaper that I spent more time perusing than he did.In addition to cartoons, the GIs on staff and in the field sent back some good illustrations of their lives at […]

From Mike Rhode comes news that Bob Artley has passed away at the age of 94. Professionally he was the editorial cartoonist at the Des Moines Tribune, Worthington Globe, and was an illustrator and commercial artist in Akron, OH. In 1952 through 1957 he was employed as an editorial cartoonist with the Des Moines Tribune. […]

Interesting idea being executed by Six Chix Stephanie Piro:I’ve said before how much I LOVE Halloween. We have a lot to celebrate with scary movies, Halloween cartoons and I’ll be doing a Halloween Cartoon Club on Monday at the library. This week I was invited by a cartoon group called the Trees and Hills Cartoonist […]

Brendan Bufford and Norm Feuti have posted another installment covering the road to syndication for Norm’s Gil strip. Today they cover the drawing and inking process.My other strip, RETAIL, is created the same way, with two exceptions. I use a computer font to create the lettering for RETAIL, and I use a halftone fill for […]

Poynter reports that the release of the latest operating system (iOS 5) for Apple’s iPad and iPhone has caused a surge downloads for newspapers. The new OS comes with a new app called Newsstand where users can subscribe to magazines and newspapers. One of the examples cited was the NYTimes app which saw 189,000 new […]

J.R. Williams’ “Out Our Way” was a daily panel with a number of themes, including family comedy, sibling rivalry, factory doings and events on a ranch out west. Williams had worked both in a factory and on a ranch and he’d evidently once been a little boy, judging from how well he depicted little boys.It’s […]