George Zeleski has announced that he’s retiring. He’s 86. He’s been the cartoonist for the Sun Post (San Clement, CA) for the last 20 years. Most of his career was spent in the meat industry, but after retiring he approached the editor of the Sun Post with some of his cartoons and was offered a […]
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, will be doing standup comedy on February 22 along with Johnny Steele at San Francisco’s Purple Onion. Their performance is called “Two Guys With Hats.” In other Piraro news, he’s evacuated his myspace blog and opened up a new over on blogger/blogspot.
Ed Fischer, who retired as the editorial cartoonist for the Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN) after 25 years will have an exhibit in his honor at the History Center of Olmsted County. The exhibit will showcase 50 of his favorite cartoons he did while at the Post-Bulletin. Previous to the Post-Bulletin Ed has worked at the Omaha […]
The New Yorker has launched a blog for its cartoonists. I don’t know how many of its cartoonists will be writing for it. It has two posts so far by Mick Stevens. The inaugural post: When The New Yorker asked me to launch its new cartoonistsâ?? blog, I was at first reluctant. I already have […]
Dave Astor writes that on February 10, at least eight African-American cartoonists plan to publish a similar cartoon to draw attention to the tendency of newspapers to run only one or two comics by African-Americans regardless of the size of the rest of the comic page making it more difficult for African-American creators to compete […]
The San Francisco Chronicle has written that Martha Arguello has passed away at the age of 90. Martha was the creator of a comic strip called Bobby Sox and another one called Emmy Lou that ran in the Chronicle for 35 years. Bob Sox was syndicated to about 100 papers and Emmy Lou inspired a […]
Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has started a blog. Blog entries go back to November and the blog features a message forum, contest news, and links to Pooch Cafe merchandise.