The Baraboo News Republic (WI) is replacing The Phantom with Jeff Stahler’s Moderately Confused. No reasons were cited. The one-panel comic strip “Moderately Confused” will replace “The Phantom” on our comics page. “Moderately Confused” is drawn by Jeff Stahler, editorial cartoonist for The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. “Moderately Confused” was a finalist for the National Cartoonists […]
There is a great piece in the Sacramento Bee about the challenges of being a professional cartoonist. It covers some of the cartoonists that took sabaticals or ended their feature early due to the relentless deadlines. Quoted in the article are Darby Conley who puts in 70 hours a week into his feature “Get Fuzzy“, […]
In an opinion piece that was reprinted in the San Jose Mercury News, Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman opines about how fairly Bush is being treated on the opinion page by editorial cartoonists from around the country. Have cartoonists and satirists harped on these issues to the point of being vicious? I suppose that depends […]
In a cost cutting move, the ‘Sacramento Bee is reducing the number of pages in it’s Sunday funnies from 8 to 6 pages. Four of the comics dropped from the smaller section will still run in the Bee on weekdays. They include “Bizarro,” “Garfield,” “Hi and Lois,” and “Rubes.” Strips being dropped entirely by the […]
From Cagle’s blog comes news that David Catrow is moving into animation and is working as a character designer for the upcoming movie “Horton Hears a Who.” Cagle also reports that David won’t be returning to editorial cartooning in the near future. Copley News Service announced that David was taking a sabbatical to work on […]
Hamilton College editorial cartoonist Thomas Booth has helped organize a symposium on the topic of Editorial cartooning and Illustration. Participating in the event will be Tony Auth, Rob Rogers and Steve Brodner (who’s illustrations appear frequently in Sports Illustrated and Business Week). All three artists will speak about their work and careers. Auth’s talk is […]
E&P is reporting that only about 1/3 of Aaron McGruder’s client list is running the re-runs for Boondock. “Boondocks” clients not using the reruns are replacing McGruder’s feature with various comics. For instance, the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal picked “Candorville” by Darrin Bell of the Washington Post Writers Group, while The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal and […]