Recently I posted a story how the Sacramento Bee was cutting their Sunday funnies from 8 pages to 6. This story (which is a week old), talks about the community reaction: In a nutshell: only 250 responded. 250. That’s it.
E&P reports that a new book, edited by Ted Rall, featuring 21 online cartoonists will be published in June. The book is entitled: “Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.”
Among many editorial page changes at the Dayton Daily News, Mike Peter’s editorial cartoons will now be in color. Mike’s cartoon has also been moved away from the house editorial to the opposite facing page – which probably has more to do with getting it on a page that runs color – than with the […]
Sunday seems to be the day newspapers announce that they’re messing with the funnies. This time, The Repository (Canton OH) will debut Tony Carrillo’s new feature “F Minus” next week on the 17th. Interestingly, the editor does mention the internal polling that took place before making the decision to put “F Minus” in the line-up. […]
Last January, I told you that Pat Oliphant was going to be part of a fund-raiser for the Harry Truman Presidential Library. Here now is a write up about the event that occured last Thursday. The event set a record for total money raised. Notice: The story doesn’t go into much detail of what Pat […]
For all those who complain that comic features never die – even after their original creator does will be happy to read that The Clarion-Ledger has dropped Peanuts. The Peanuts gang is being replaced with Sudoku. Another change is a trial run of Housebroken Steve Watkins. Stevens’ feature will run through the Boondocks hiatus. And […]
Houston Chronicle editor admits, dropping Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Fillmore created quite a stir in Houston. I hit the trifecta of reader discontent last week (lucky me) with the ongoing immigration debate, the cessation of the comic strip Mallard Fillmore and the announcement by U.S. Rep Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, that he will resign from his […]