MIT hackes Doonesbury college poll to get win

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago04 mins

Universal Press Syndicate: News Release:Despite some digital ballot-box stuffing, or perhaps because of it, MIT has won the poll that asked where Alex Doonesbury should go to college.”A careful check of the applicable rulebook indicates that queering the results was not specifically prohibited,” noted a Friday post on Doonesbury.com, where the poll was conducted. “And by tradition, engineers, hackers, and techfolk will assume that in a problem-solving situation of this nature, there is no box out of which they are not expected to climb.

Awards

Reuben weekend photos and play by play posted

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

Two Reuben weekend attendees, Mark Anderson and Mike Lynch have posted their photos and details of their weekend.Mark live-blogged his first and second day of attending sessions and meeting other cartoonists…. Mike also has shots of several attendees such as Dan Piraro, Tony Murphy, Rina Piccolo, Stan and Pauline Goldberg, Chuck Goll, Dan Collins, and Bunny Hoest.

Comic strips

Three strips dropped in Daily Press to make room for kids features

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

The Daily Press, Newport VA, has dropped “Opus,” “The Pink Panther,” and “Jump Start” in order to make room for three kid’s features such as a crossword puzzle, “Ask Shagg” and “Doodles.”The editor also points out that Aaron McGruder’s “Boondocks” has been replaced by Darrin Bell’s “Candorville” for the remainder of the hiatus.

Comic strips

Detroit Free Press changes line up while Wiley Miller is on vacation

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

“Non Seq” will move to Page 1 of our comics when it returns next month.In “Mr. Boffo”‘s former home on Page 1, you’ll see “F Minus” by Tony Carrillo, which gets its shot to wow Free Press comics lovers…. And no, it had nothing to do with pole dancing.According to distributor United Features Syndicate, the comic “tackles life’s serious issues, pins them to the ground, and steals their lunch money.”

Exhibits

Mikhaela Reid has photos of Glyph Awards and She Draws Comics exhibit

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago21 mins

I don’t have pictures from the Glyph Awards ceremony, but I do havepictures from the convention it was attached to, the Fifth Annual EastCoast Black Age of Comics Convention (my boyfriend, social/politicalcartoonist Masheka Wood had a table and a book).

Brian Gable wins fourth National News Award

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

Congratulations are in order for Canadian editorial Cartoonist Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail who was awarded his fourth National Newspaper Award. The awards were handed out last Friday in Halifax.

Comic strips

Detroit Free Press changes line up while Wiley Miller is on vacation

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago61 mins

Daily Cartoonist

Daily Cartoonist closed on Memorial Day

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

Be back tomorrow morning!

Mike Luckovich wins Reuben Award: 2005 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year

Alan Gardner18 years ago18 years ago01 mins

Mike Luckovich, who has previously won this years Pulitzer Prize, SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Award, Overseas Press Club Award, and the National Headliners Award, can add the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.More details over at E&P.

Reuben award winner posted

Alan Gardner19 years ago18 years ago61 mins

BTW, This post is a milestone of sorts for the Daily Cartoonist. I have now posted 1000 blog posts in the seven and a half months of blogging.

Comic strips

Unfit to live on… online

Alan Gardner19 years ago91 mins

Mike Belkin, creator of “Unfit” writes in to tell me that while “Unfit” will close as a print cartoon at…

Editorial cartooning

Jim Borgman in list of most influential Cincinnati citizens

Alan Gardner19 years ago19 years ago01 mins

Early in the Daily Cartoonist’s days, I posted a story about Jim being listed on the Annoyatorium – a gripe message board about people who annoy…. One of the reason he wasn’t annoying was “Every city election year, there is a write-in campaign for him for Cincinnati City Council.”All of this is a way of saying Cincinnati loves Jim.

Reuben nominees will be on Washington Post chat today

Alan Gardner19 years ago19 years ago01 mins

Today at 1 p.m. (EST) the five nominees for the Reuben Award will be guests on the Washington Post’s chat forum. The five guests and nominees are: Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Brian Crane (Pickles), Mike Luckovich and Dan Piraro (Bizarro).You can submit questions ahead of time on the wp site.

Jim Borgman: Is it okay to use photocopier in multi-panel cartoons

Alan Gardner19 years ago19 years ago01 mins

Now Photoshop lets us appleC-appleV elements and move them around, making complicated cartoons like this one do-able under tight deadlines.That said, I always feel an irrational twinge of guilt when I cut-and-paste within a cartoon, as if readers have paid me by the line and insist on their money’s worth. For reasons I can’t explain, I usually go back in and tweak the characters and backgrounds here and there to give the eagle-eyed wannabes something to examine and form conspiracy theories about.

Hector Cantú to speak at Americans for the Arts Convention

Alan Gardner19 years ago19 years ago01 mins

He is co-executive producer of the Baldo TV show, currently in development at Paloma Productions, and author of two Baldo books: The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are and Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers.The comic strip’s lead characters are quickly working their way onto the American pop culture stage, from car-crazy teen Baldo and college-obsessed sister Gracie to tradition-conscious Dad and lottery-playing Tia Carmen…. Baldo is Universal Press Syndicate’s fourth most-successful comic strip launch, after The Boondocks, For Better or For Worse, and Calvin and Hobbes.In addition to his work on this successful comic, Cantú is an editor at Quick, a daily news tabloid in Dallas that targets young readers.

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