Do cartoonists’ political views leak into their strips?
The Washington Examiner has an opinion article written by Michael Taube about how political leanings sneak into the comics page….
November 2005
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Cartoonists Create Mural To Mirror Another at Famed Midtown Bar
This sounds like fun. More than 20 renowned cartoonists gathered yesterday at a Midtown bar to draw a cartoon mural…
DesMoines Register reports on their latest comic page survey
It’s always interesting to read how certain comics are fairing in other newspapers. The DesMoines Register prints the results of…
NYT: Lou Myers, Cartoonist With a Satiric Style, Dies at 90
From the New York Times: (free registration required) Lou Myers, a satiric artist and graphic essayist whose expressive style helped…
ArcaMax Publishing Launches Baby Blues and Zits Comic Strip
As first reported by the Comics Reporter, Zits and Baby Blues will be included in the family-friendly newsletters it publishes….
United Hires Daning as Managing Editor
E&P: United Media gets a new editor The former King Features Syndicate executive succeeds Neil Gladstone, who went to AOL…
Award-winning Iranian artist calls for more support of cartoons
I always wondered what cartooning would be like in a nation where your family or yourself could found dead because…
Calvin and Hobbes Anniversary
For those who care, yesterday markes the 20th anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.
More Than 1,900 Newspaper Jobs Lost in 2005
Ouch. According to an informal survey at E&P, 1,900 jobs were cut in 2005 alone. The article also lists the…
Berryman Award Goes to Margulies
Congrats to Jimmy Margulies. NEW YORK Jimmy Margulies has won the Berryman Award for editorial cartooning from the National Press…
Dilbert Fans Can Now Get Their Daily Dose of the Popular Cartoon Strip on Their Verizon Wireless Mobile Web 2.0-Enabled Phones
Can’t get your daily Dilbert fix? You can now get Scott Adam’s comic strip on your mobile phone. “Dilbert is…
Daily Cartoonist roadmap
The Daily Cartoonist has been live for about a month now and I wanted to outline the next steps for…
Note to RSS subscribers
For those who are RSS subscribers to the Daily Cartoonist (all 5 of you), I’ve changed the URL to the…
Five Tribune Newspapers to Seek Job Cuts
The seemingly unrelated stories of Michael Ramirez being let go from the LA Times and KAL taking a buyout at…
Report: Online Newspaper Readership Up 11% in Oct.
From E&P: While the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ latest FAS-FAX numbers showed a 2.6% decline in daily paid circulation for…