This is one of the better write-ups about the adventures of Steve Kelley, editorial cartoonist for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. He talks about Katrina and his use of stand up comedy, cartooning to help people laugh again. He also does standup comedy, having appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” several times, as […]
Time Magazine has posted their recap of 2005 in editorial cartoons.
I noticed that the Madagascar DVD had a work in progress teaser for the “Over The Hedge” movie coming out this summer. Apple’s movie trailer site also has an ‘Over The Hedge’ trailer posted.
According to this report, Spider-Man is coming back to newspapers in a big way. News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are reintroducing Spider-Man as a weekly half page insert. NEW YORK News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are teaming up to distribute collectible editions of “Amazing Spider-Man” in Sunday papers beginning in late summer 2006. […]
Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug continues to pick up papers and the occassional headline. The Pittsburg Tribune-Review has picked up the strip and added it to their line up. They’ve also posted a story about the creator. “Really, I see it animated in my head,” he says. “So all I’m doing is picking out still […]
The Sun-Times’s new paid circulation numbers are down 100,000 papers. “That’s dramatic,” said John Morton, an industry analyst based in Silver Spring, Md. “It’s huge. It’s an enormous reduction, and we’ll see how they recover from it. In the current environment for the newspaper business, it’s very difficult to add to circulation, and I’m sure […]
Patrick McDonnell’s first story book “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the NYT Beset Seller list for Children’s books according to his web site. It is with great pleasure to annouce that Patrick’s first storybook, “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the New York Times Best Seller […]
From editor and publisher: NEW YORK “The Family Circus” creator Bil Keane drew a cartoon for a 2006 calendar distributed by The White House Commission on Remembrance. This month, the commission sent thousands of the poster-sized calendars to U.S. troops around the world and to children who have lost a loved one in the service […]