Still can’t find any cartoons Joe Heller, the editorial cartoonist in Green Bay, however Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was down in Dallas to cover the game. He’s posted several cartoons that he drew during the game.Seven cartoons in all. Last won captioned with this explanation:Oh, great! Here I was sitting in Cowboys Stadium […]

Comic page changes for the weekThe Yuma Sun wants to replace Peanuts and are asking for suggestions. Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) adds Stone Soup, Diamond Lil and Brevity. Stone Soup was dropped late last year but readers demanded it be reinstated.The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) is adding Pickles and Argyle Sweater to their Sunday pages.

Baby Blues scores with a great reversal-of-expectations in the third panel.What’s more, those of us who have lived in the Northeast and upper Midwest are perfectly in tune with the idea of spring sports that will begin practice in March with baseball in the gym or lacrosse in the plowed parking lot, so the gag […]

  (Editor’s note: An earlier version of this posting assumed a later kickoff. The wretched excess factor remains intact.)Sometimes it takes a bit of soul-wrenching personal experience to make a cartoonist sensitive to the wrongs of this world.Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller moved from California to Maine a few years back and seems very happy […]

Damien Glez, who was born in France but makes his home in Burkina Faso, did this cartoon for Amnesty International in Switzerland. I love his style to begin with, and I’ve always had an affection for game board satires, too, which makes this cartoon, with its succession of tiny Damien Glez cartoons, a lot of […]

The other post about the declining quality of the Strathmore bristol board has prompted quite a bit of response. Mike Cope has posted a video of him drawing a Valentines Day cartoon that appears in this months Readers Digest. He posts the following regarding his technique:Each gag cartoon begin as a very light rough pencil […]

A quick follow up to news I posted yesterday. The Somali man that allegedly tried to break into Kurt Westergaard’s home with an axe was found guilty. News today is that the sentence is a nine year prison sentence and near $2,000 fine. After being released, he will be expelled from Denmark.

I’ve heard this complaint from other sources too.Lately I’ve gotten a number of bad batches of Strathmore bristol. The problem with them was they bled. Inking on them with a dip pen resulted in your line getting fuzzy and hairy-looking. Totally unusable. At first MAD sent me some boards that did that, and I couldn’t […]

Daniel Lieske, a German artist working as a digital artist at a German computer and console games company has started a new web graphic novel. Top rate digital art. Check it out.

Yesterday an anti-gay marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), linked to a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon by Zach Weiner – presumably because it was viewed of as pro-traditional sexuality. Zach was alerted to the image being used but was also alerted that the group was pulling the image directly from his server […]

There’s a substitute teacher at “Big Nate” this week, and not only that, but he’s fresh out of teacher’s college. Game on!Or, as today’s strip suggests, maybe not.Nate leads a life of quiet frustration, though it’s actually never all that quiet. Middle school boys aren’t very good at playing their cards close to their vests. […]

Dan Reynolds, creator of Reynolds Unwrapped, has started blogging. Dan’s post a lot of his early work including his early submissions to the syndicates.He’s also starting a caption contest. Winner receives a Reynolds Unwrapped poster.

Zack Smith writes about Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North and his successful anthology that briefly became Amazon’s number one book Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die.Nrama: The book became almost a rallying point for webcomics creators, given the extent of the collaboration and push it received. […]

Rob Tornoe notes:In addition, Gannett continued their furlough strategy for the first quarter of this year, forcing all non-union employees to take a week off without pay. Meanwhile, Gannett’s board of directors will likely pay top executives millions of dollars in bonuses this year, in part for making employees take furloughs.

From The Harvey Awards Committee: The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con are proud to present the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.Ballots […]