The Daily Cartoonist

Industry news for the professional cartoonist

June 2006

Close to Home celebrates 15 years in November

Alan Gardner03 mins

McPherson continued to work by day and moonlight as a cartoonist until 1990, when he decided to take up creating his frumpy looking characters in absurd situations full-time.?Close to Home? has been compared to the satirical humor of Gary Larson?s ?The Far Side? and in many papers, actually replaced the panel when Larson retired in 1995….  I think it has been for most cartoonists,? says McPherson, ?But I?d rather not deal with all of the far-out nonsense; there is so much nonsense in real life to draw from.?After 5,000 comic panels, the ink well of ideas for some cartoonists might dry up, but not for McPherson.

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New book and book signing announced for Ted Rall

Alan Gardner02 mins

Search and Destroy:AMERICA GONE WILD: CARTOONS BY TED RALLNot only is my new Central Asian travelogue/graphic novel/current affairs analysis SILK ROAD TO RUIN coming out this summer, there’s another treat for fans of my cartoons.AMERICA GONE WILD will come out this fall….  Here for the ages is the hate mail and death threats I received, my personal interactions with personalities like Bill O’Reilly, etc.–all the dish you’ve always wondered about.

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McCoy Brothers getting good press with their Reuben wins

Alan Gardner192 mins

“I’m pretty sure that hasn’t happened before.”When Glenn won, clad in a pink tuxedo with ruffles, his big brother Gary, wearing a blue tuxedo with ruffles, carried him on stage piggy-back style. Glenn said he would rather not win awards by snatching them away from his brother.Glenn’s previous Reubens include newspaper comic strip cartoonist of the year award for his syndicated cartoon, “The Duplex,” three greeting cards cartoonist of the year awards, two magazine cartoonist of the year awards, and an editorial cartoonist of the year award.Gary, who was nominated for the first time this year, joked that his brother only needed one more award to finish tiling his bathroom floor.Universal Press has also posted a press release regarding the McCoy wins.

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