The Daily Cartoonist has been live for about a month now and I wanted to outline the next steps for this blog for the few visitors/subscribers. I haven’t advertised or marketed the blog as it is still the development phase, but I am seeing some traffic trickling in. Right now, this blog is in what […]
For those who are RSS subscribers to the Daily Cartoonist (all 5 of you), I’ve changed the URL to the RSS feed. I’ll be using Feedburner to monitor the feed’s usage. Please update your subscription. For most rss readers and browsers, simply clicking on the link below and the feed will be added to your […]
The seemingly unrelated stories of Michael Ramirez being let go from the LA Times and KAL taking a buyout at the Sun are connected. According to Yahoo News and The Chicago Tribune, Tribune Co is slashing jobs across most of its papers. This is probably even connected to why Jeff MacNelly’s position at the Chicago […]
From E&P: While the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ latest FAS-FAX numbers showed a 2.6% decline in daily paid circulation for U.S. newspapers, Nielsen//NetRatings reports that newspaper Web sites grew 11% year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, comprising 26% of the active U.S. Internet population. Not good. Unless your name is Mike Fiore.
State News editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey had citizens protesting outside the newspaper offices over a cartoon about U.S. torture camps. The cartoon, by State News cartoonist Mike Ramsey, featured a World War II veteran saying “I liberated a torture camp back in ’45” to a current soldier. The soldier, shown holding a bloody baseball bat […]
I posted earlier regarding the Sun’s buyout offer, but was unable to find any reports whether KAL’s position was in jeapardy. E&P reports that KAL is considering taking the buyout. The Tribune Co. has asked The Sun to once again seek staff buyouts in various departments. “I have been offered a buyout like everyone else […]
A story in E&P is reporting that a libel suit against “Get Fuzzy” cartoonist Darby Conley has reached settlement. From E&P: Bob Lobel filed the libel suit this spring after the May 13 “Get Fuzzy” strip — by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Darby Conley — showed Satchel the dog watching Lobel on TV and asking: “Is this […]
While this blog’s focus is on professional cartoonists, I ran across a posting on the toontalk bulletin board. Lee Nordling, author of Your Career in the Comics will be directing a four day seminar for unsyndicated cartoonists to help them take their creation to a syndicated level. My goal with this seminar is to work […]
A day long cartooning class will be offered in Hingham Massachusetts by John Zaccone. Zaccone will touch upon the three major cartoon formats ? the political cartoon, the single panel cartoon, and the comic strip. But in a certain significant sense, he won?t do it alone. As students explore the process of creating a professional […]