Orlando Sentinel has announced that it is laying off 21 of its employees. Dana Summers, their staff editorial cartoonist, will not be one of them. From an email Dana writes: I’m not affected. I try to do as many local cartoons as possible to make myself valuable to the paper. I do 4 for TMS […]
In a story that is only peripherally about Scott Adams, his standing as guru of business management has jumped from 27th to 12 place. Business gurudom is a man’s world, with only four women in the top 50. Insead’s Professor Renée Mauborgne is the highest placed at 15, followed by Harvard’s Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter […]
The Cartoon Bank is getting into the holiday spirit by offering customizable gifts. All of the new products, which allow corporate gift-givers to expose their “lighter side,” are completely customized with cartoons selected by the company and also feature the company’s branding. The offering includes: A page-a-day calendar with 365 custom-selected New Yorker cartoons A […]
Chip Bok, editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal, will be in D.C for a book signing. His new book, “A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok, was published earlier this year and can be had at Amazon.com. From his blog: If you’re near the University Club at 1135 […]
Ballantine Books is publishing a hardcover collection of Peanuts without any dialogue. “It Goes Without Saying: ‘Peanuts’ at Its Silent Best” is by the late Charles Schulz, with a foreword by his widow, Jean Schulz. Link: E&P
Via E&P: Scott Stantis’ strip Prickly City will be taking a jab at the recent rounds of layoffs in the newspaper industry. In the strip, Carmen the conservative girl mentions to Winslow the liberal coyote pup that there has been “another round of layoffs in the newspaper biz.” Winslow replies: “If the newspapers are in […]
Last Sunday’s Doonesbury used quotes by President Bush back in 1967 while the young Bush was a senior at Yale regarding frat hazing (branding students with a coat hanger). Trudeau tries to tie President Bush’s current stance on torture to his hazing days. The branding, which was exposed by the Yale paper, was first covered […]
The Courier News has announced that it will begin running Stephan Pastis’ strip Pearls Before Swine starting Monday. An unusual rat and pig take center stage in Pearls Before Swine, a daily and Sunday comic strip from United Feature Syndicate that will be featured in The Courier News starting Monday. Technorati Tags: Comic strips