Year end review for 2008: Rollercoaster
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter…
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Daily Cartoonist closed for holidays
I’m taking the rest of the holiday off. I’ll be posting the annual End of the Year review sometime between…
Richard Thompson draws next Stay Tooned! cover
Just received news from John Read, of Stay Tooned! magazine, that Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson will be the…
KAL creates and designs new credit crunch game
The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has created and designed a new board game for this month’s Christmas double…
Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon turns 90
The Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel will turn 90 years old tomorrow. The feature started by Robert Ripley…
ANC President sues cartoonist “Zapiro” for libel
African National Congress President Jacob Zuma has filed a libel suit against editorial cartoonist Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro for the amount…
AAEC Prez opposes Nast Award entry fee increase
Ted Rall, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president, has written an open letter to the Overseas Press Club of…
Thomas “TAB” Boldt laid off from Sun Media
The journalism melt down that has reduced the number of staff editorial cartoonists by 18% this year isn’t just an…
Rall responds to Time’s top 10 editorial cartoons
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president Ted Rall has fired off a letter to Time Magazine regarding their “bland, inane,…
News Briefs for December 17, 2008
» Clear Blue Water creator Karen Montague-Reyes, continues writing on her blog things she learned while her strip was in…
Duffy to do cartoons for Register competitor
Brian Duffy, who was unceremoniously shown the door after 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register…
uClick adds three more webcomics to iTunes store
Uclick, a division of Unversal Press Syndicate, is rapidly expanding the number of comic strips and cartoons available through the…
News Briefs for December 15, 2008
» Bob Schieffer, host of CBS’ Face The Nation program mentioned a cartoon by Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson,…
Richard Crowson to cartoon for Wichita Magazine
Former Wichita Eagle editorial cartoonist Richard Crowson who was laid off back in September, will now be cartooning for the…