Bill Mauldin Biography excerpt posted
Todd A. DePastino has written a biography of famed WWII cartoonist Bill Mauldin. The book is called “Bill Mauldin: A…
February 2008
Continue reading
F Minus character death update
F Minus creator Tony Carillo announced last week that he would be killing off one of his characters, which perplexed…
Chad Carpenter: Alaska Cartoon Laureate?
Tundra creator Chad Carpenter may be honored as an official state laureate if a rumored (or wishful) legislative proclamation is…
Amend, Robb, Wilson named judges in Scripps Howard Journalism Awards
FoxTrot creator Bill Amend, Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library Associate Curator and Assistant Professor Jenny Robb and United Media…
Watch Stephan Pastis’ Big Idea interview
Earlier this month I told you that Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis would be on CNBC’s “The Big Idea…
Early Pogo clips of animated show on YouTube
Here are a couple of interesting clips of an early Pogo animated show that according to Mike Lynch, the animated…
News Briefs for February 22, 2008
» Wednesday’s Baldo paid a special tribute to Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo. Hector Cantu told E&P that “Gus broke…
Star-Ledger drops two pages of comics
According to Dave Astor, The Star-Ledger has shrunk its Sunday comics from eight pages to six . The move resulted…
Newspaper changes across the nation
This blog deals primarily with newspaper based cartooning and as such major and minor shifts in the industry can have…
Payback for the man fired for hanging up a Dilbert cartoon
Back in December, I wrote about a Illinois man who was fired from his job after management used security cameras…
A F Minus character to die
2007 was the year we saw perhaps the most comic characters die (at least temporarily). Only 7 weeks into the…
Stay Tooned! magazine delayed
Just received a FYI email from John Read. Due to problems with printers he’s had to delay the launch of…
Herblock Prize goes to John Sherffius (UPDATED…again)
This year’s Herblock Prize has been awarded to John Sherffius of the Camera of Boulder, Colorado. From the judges: “John’s…
News briefs for February 20, 2008
Sean Hoy will be releasing his fifth book, Out of the Cup, a collection of coffee cartoons soon. Sean is…
Comic page changes
Here are a few of the changes on the comic pages: Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse returns to…