Posted on: January 17, 2007

Dan Thompson has announced that he has secured the rights from the Milton Caniff family to run Steve Canyon on Humorous Maximus according to E&P. The feature begins on Monday, January 22.

Over on Jim Borgman’s blog he tackles a difficult topic of when he feels comfortable using minority characters when the editorial cartoon calls for a generic individual. His answer is interesting and he even redraws a few of his cartoons and changes the race of some of the characters so you can see how it […]

The Capital (Annapolis, Md) will be trying out six new strips: Pearls Before Swine, Non Sequitur, Pickles, Brevity, Frazz, and Candorville. The contest begins January 21. The voting will be via paper ballot (favored method for the aged), online and email ballots (favored by the younger crowd). We’ll see which method yields the winning feature.

Wee Pals cartoonist Morrie Turner is scheduled to speak at Alfred University (Alfred NY) on February 3rd during their second annual Drawn to Diversity program. The program was created to delve into equality and diversity in art and media. This year’s program specifically looks at the funny pages. The event is free to the public.

The Courier & Press has decided not to drop Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Filmore or Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury after a two week period to collect reader input. The result was “readers of the Viewpoint page have let us know in no uncertain terms that they want us to continue running the “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore” comic […]

From the Toledo Free Press comes word that a new strip Biff and Riley will be adding to the line up at the end of this month. The new local comic strip is by Toledoan Jeff Payden and features two sibling dogs. Payden described the main characters, two dogs, as “two brothers from the same […]

I’m beginning to think that Stephan Pastis is the most written about cartoonist of 2006 and is setting himself up for a repeat in 2007. Anyway, here’s an interview with him from the Concord Monitor. They are now running Pearls Before Swine in the place of Foxtrot. From the interview: What do you think it […]

Michael Vance, curator of the Oklahoma Cartoonists Museum writes in to alert us about a new short film on YouTube about the museum. I’ve mentioned the Oklahoma Cartoonists Museum before back in March when they received over 2000 comic books, magazines and comics strips for their collection as well as in October when they had […]