Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice launch “The Green House” this Sunday
Last March I told you about Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice’s new comic strip The Green House which they are…
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Cartoonists in the news: Doug Marlette
Doug Marlette recently spoke at the Virginia Commonwealth University on the topic of editorial cartooning. From the article: An example…
Greg Evans wants to draw your blood
Greg Evans, who does the Luann comic, will be on hand this Saturday to draw sketches of from his comic…
Kory Merritt wins 2007 Locher Award
State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial…
Walt Handelsman wins second Pulitzer Prize
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning – his second such prize…
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…
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…