Scott Adams, who usually charges $30-50k to speak, sat down with high school students to give them the inside scoop into the life of a syndicated cartoonist. The event was part of a larger program to introduce kids to a variety of professions. For Adams it wasn’t just a way of giving back to the […]
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has made a couple of additions to their funny pages. After a reader poll, they’ve picked up “Get Fuzzy” and “Mutts.” Our popular comics page has some new faces as well. Some weeks ago, we ran a reader poll on what you wanted, and as a result, we’re adding two comic […]
The 19th annual Rube Goldberg competition is set for this weekend. The competition pays homage to late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing extremely complex machines that performed very simple tasks. This year’s challenge is to build a mechanism that will individually cut or shred five sheets of 20-pound, 8-by-11-inch paper. About eight university […]
Jef Mallett, creator of “Frazz” will be speaking to participants of the Musselman Triathlon – which Jef will compete in the next day. The event happens on July 15th and 16th. Mallett is an avid age-group triathlete and often includes bike racing and triathlon as themes in his work. He will entertain athletes as the […]
The 12 newspapers that McClatchy plans to sell to finance the purchase of Knight Ridder are a bit closer to knowing who their next bosses may be. The LA Times reports that there are three potential bidders: Yucaipa Cos (a Los Angeles investment firm), MediaNews Group Inc, and Gannett Co. McClatchy Co.’s planned sale of […]
There is a possibility that the Boston Globe may cut additional staff jobs after its revenue dropped 12 percent last month. Last year the Globe let go of 130 of its staff. According to sources, he told department heads that no decisions have been made yet on whether there will be staff reductions. He specifically […]