Posted on: November 21, 2007

E&P reports that Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark has turned 20 years old. Congratulations, Mark.

United Media will be launching a new feature in January by Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. The new featured, entitled “Family Tree” is described as a “topical without being overly political.” In talking with Editor and Publisher’s Dave Astor, Signe indicated that she was approached by United Media’s acquisition and development editor Ted […]

Sequential Tart has posted a short interview with Fastrack and Safe Havens creator Bill Holbrook about his web feature, Kevin & Kell.

The Modesto Bee has shrunk their Sunday comic pages. The paper used to run 29 features over six pages, but has reduced the comic section to 29 features on four pages. The editor cites cost cutting as the primary reason. He offers that a third party company that prints the comics has a new process […]

According to Steve Cloud’s blog, his feature Boy On a Stick and Slither which runs on comics.com is now running in the “Eye” – a free weekly published by the Charlotte Observer.

There’s a story over in the Wall Street Journal about the competitive nature of the comic pages. The article focuses how hard it is for editors or the public to let go of older, legacy features. Generally, a strip has to end or be dropped by a paper in order for a new one to […]