Cartoon Island Contest Votes off Mary Worth
A couple of weeks ago, I told you that the The Times in Shreveport, LA was holding a “Cartoon Island”…
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Scott Nychay Wins More Awards for Paper That Canned Him
Scott Nychay is an award winning cartoonist who was let go from his paper, The Northwest Herald, last October for…
More Comic Titles Available at Lulu.Com
Universal Press and Lulu.com are now offering more titles for their print-on-demand partnership service. In addition to PreTeena, The Fusco…
New Quarterly Cartoon Publication to Debut in November
Dave Astor writes that a new quarterly cartooning publication will be debuting in November entitled, “Stay Tooned!” The magazine is…
Exhibit Examines Golden Age of Political Cartooning
An exhibit that opened this week in Fremont Ohio is featuring 100 19-century political cartoons that originally appeared in weekly…
Charles Boyce to Conduct Seminar
Compu-Toon cartoonist Charles Boyce will conduct a seminar on September 30 in Barrington, Ill according to E&P. No topic was…
FBOFW Hybrid to Begin September 3
Just got this notice from Universal Press: Lynn Johnston’s popular comic strip “For Better or For Worse” begins a new…
Dropped Opus Causing Questions of Double Standards (UPDATE)
After more than 2 dozen papers temporarily dropped Berkeley Breathed’s Opus this last Sunday, many are questioning if the strip…
Norm Feuti holds contest to find a new character
Retail creator Norm Feuti writes in to share news that he’s looking for a walk on character for a six…
Open Letter to Lynn Johnston: “Why, Why”?
Mason Adams is a staff writer for the Roanoke Times and has penned an open letter to For Better or…
Jef Mallett to Swim for Charity
Frazz creator Jef Mallett is going to swim 5 miles for charity on Monday. The swim is part of an…
Latest Inkspot Posted Featuring Mort Drucker
James Kemsley, creator of Ginger Meggs, writes in to alert all Daily Cartoonists that the latest Inkspot has been posted…
Toonseum Requesting Donations of Original Art
I received an email from Joe Wosm, Curator/Founder of the ToonSeum Gallery at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (see my…
Arctic Circle Launched
The new King Features comic strip Arctic Circle, by Alex Hallatt launched yesterday. If it’s not running in your local…
Best of Bo Nanas to Run on Gocomics.Com
John Kovaleski writes in to alert Bo Nanas fans that a “best of” of his feature will be running on…