If you’re hip to the Twitter scene, I’ve set up an account (dailycartoonist) that you can follow. Each day you’ll get the headlines from this blog as they’re posted as well as any cartoon related thoughts or activities that I’m having/doing. Think of it as this blog’s back channel. As with all Daily Cartoonist endeavors, […]
The Public Editor for the News and Observer has written a column on their reader’s bemusing of Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Fillmore placement on the funny pages while Garry Trudeau’s comic Doonesbury is squirreled alway on the op-ed pages. One reason for the inconsistent treatment of the politically flavored comics is the newspaper’s internal setup. The […]
The News and Observer has picked up Signe Wilkinson’s Family Tree as their latest guest comic. Thad Ogburn, the features editor, mentions that last month’s trial comic, It’s All About You didn’t get much of a response, but he opines that may have been because so much discussion has been made of the paper’s decision […]
Paul Gilligan has announced that his feature Pooch Cafe is in works with RingTales to animate Pooch Cafe strips for distribution through the web, mobile phones. RingTales was co-founded by Michael Fry (Over the Hedge writer) with the objective of animating print comics. In my interview with Michael a year ago, he had mentioned that […]