Wizard of Id’s Brant Parker passes away at age 86
Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id died yesterday at the age of 86 in Lynchburg Va. His death…
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New Rose is Rose collection due out this month
A new Rose is Rose collection is due out this month entitled The Enchanted Rose. This is the second book…
Mike Lester wins SPJ award for editorial cartooning
Mike Lester, editorial cartoonist for the Rome News-Tribune, has won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for…
Scott Stantis to speak at law seminar
Prickly City creator Scott Stantis will be a featured speaker on First Amendment protection for media on May 4th in…
King Features to launch My Cage on May 6th
King Features is set to launch a new comic feature on May 6th called My Cage – a manga-influenced strip…
Cartoonists in the news: Pat Bagley
Pat Bagley, the editorial cartoonist with the Salt Lake Tribune, recently spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the…
Ray Billingsley to be guest on next “Fridays with Mr. Media”
According to E&P, Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis will be the next guest on Bob Andelman’s “Fridays with Mr. Media”…
Berkeley Breathed’s book tour dates and locations posted
Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus is coming out with a new children’s book called Mars Needs…
Zippy strip pays tribute to Jay Kennedy
Bill Griffith uses his Zippy the Pinhead comic to pay tribute to Jay Kennedy who died last month while vacationing…
Local cartoonist bumps Crankshaft; local readers get angry
I enjoyed this article by Stew Rieckman, executive editor of The Northwestern (Oshkosh WI), who related his readership’s response after…
Johnny Hart passes away from stroke at age 76 (UPDATED, again)
Johnny Hart, age 76, has died Saturday from a stroke at his drawing board in Nineveh, NY. Johnny is the…
Rudy Park site gets redesign and new Ask Sadie feature
Darrin Bell and Matt Richtel have redesigned their Rudy Park web site and have added a new feature called “Ask…
Milton Caniff is the rage – go check out his originals online
Milton Caniff seems to be the big rage this year – and deservedly so. It was his collection that jump-started…
Brian Duffy appears in video to show how he does his cartoons
The Des Moines Register’s Brian Duffy appears in a video on the paper’s web site about how he creates his…
Cartoonists in the news: Tony Auth
The Jewish Exponent covered a recent speaking engagement with Tony Auth, the editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tony shared…