Phil Hands writes in to alert us to the news that The Capital Times in Wisconsin has announced that they will be ending their daily version of their newspaper and replacing it with their web site. The paper will continue to print a twice weekly tabloid and expand it’s circulation to about 80,000 (currently under […]
Jimmy Margulies writes in to tell us that he and editorial cartoonists Matt Davies, M.E. Cohen and Adam Zyglis have been invited to speak at Columbia University by the Columbia Political Union. The union is a non-partisan organization to promote involvement in the political process and previous speakers have included Governor Howard Dean, Senator Orrin […]
Last September I reported that Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had a $100,000 reward on his head after one of his cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad’s head on the body of a dog was published. It’s now being reported that the Sweden’s Economic Crimes Bureau conducted a raid of a home back in November and found […]
The Los Angeles Daily News has picked up Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac. The change was related to the paper’s transition to a smaller width paper. According to E&P, The Long Beach Press-Telegram has added five new features to its line up. The features include: Richard Thompson Cul De Sac, Jim Davis’ Garfield, Chris Brown’s […]
Corey Pandolph writes in to tell us that he’s launched a new comic strip entitled TOBY, Robot Satan on gocomics.com. The new feature, about a insane robot and his bartender friend Morris Gumboot, will run five days a week. Corey also mentions the possibility of it running in print in New York or Boston. Corey […]
The Christian Science Monitor is placing a heavy emphasis on hiring an editorial cartoonist with animation experience, according to Dave Astor of E&P. The paper says that animations “keep the attention of younger people, who are more oriented” and that the cartoonist can either create the animation solo or work with more computer savvy people […]