The Seattle Times has announced that they area cutting jobs – some 200 jobs and Eric Devericks, their editorial cartoonist, tells me that his job will most likely be one of them unless enough people voluntarily leave. If not, May 5th will be his last day. Eric has been with The Seattle Times for nearly […]
“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints. “It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a […]
Editorial Cartoonists Ted Rall and Stephanie McMillan will be the guest speakers for two New York City events to talk “politics, ecocide, the Evil System, and resistance.” The evening speaking events will feature slideshows of their cartoons.
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog has been picked up by several online comic pages according to a post on Jonathan’s blog. Bleeker started out on Comics Sherpa and moved up to goComics in May of last year. It has also been optioned for TV Radical Sheep Productions in Canada. Here’s a list of online […]
The now famous “Garfield Minus Garfield” blog is getting mainstream media attention. The blog, by Dan Walsh of Dublin, takes a Garfield comic strip and removes the main character Garfield to allow readers a different view of Jon Arbuckle. From the site’s description: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield […]
Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has been officially hired by Sony to write the treatment for the Pooch Cafe movie that optioned back in January. A movie treatment is the basic story for the movie outlined in paragraph form. I pitched my treatment/vision of the Pooch Caf’e movie to Sony along with a number (not […]
United Media is launching a few feature by Keith Knight entitled The Knight Life on May 5th. The political and satirical feature is described as tackling “contemporary issues like consumer culture, bacon, the media, race, family and everything else, gently mocking the minutiae of daily life with self-deprecating humor, honesty and goofiness.” “Keith Knight became […]
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro has announced that he’s getting into the trading card business. The new Bizarro trading cards feature a Bizarro cartoon and some unpublished work and the back of each cartoon is a puzzle piece that once assembled with other cards create a larger 17.5 x 11.5″ puzzle. The first release (or Series […]