There is a must read on Windsor McKay and the incredible breadth of work that he did. I was not aware that he had created anything other than “Little Nemo,” but he had a successful strip called “The Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend” which was more dark and for an adult reader. He was also […]
Slate’s Michael Kinsley has a good article on the newspaper’s efforts to play catch-up in the new techno world. Ten years later, newspapers are starting to panic again. But merely slobbering after bloggers may not be enough. In 1996, the oldest Americans who grew up with computers and don’t even understand my tiresome anecdotes about […]
The Daily World has picked up Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits – but at the expense of Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rod Perry’s ‘Brevity’. ?Zits,? which has become one of America?s hottest comic strips in the past three years, makes its daily debut in The Daily World today. The King Features strip by Jerry Scott […]
If you’re following the ‘dating’ life of Knight Ridder newspaper, this article will give you and update on who’s interested to buy the chain. A financial buyer, such as the new consortium, would take on a heavy debt load and likely cut jobs, install new management and sell off noncore and struggling assets to improve […]
On the Editorial Cartoonist web site, they’re reposting a story that ran in the “The Business Journal of Phoenix” regarding the plight of the editorial cartoonist. Not much new, but it does talk abit about Steve Benson (AZ Republic), Brian Fairrington (Cagle Cartoons – living in the Phoenix area). Those who have made editorial cartooning […]