Frank Cho nominated for Eagle Award
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his pencil work on the Mighty Avengers…
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Brooke McEldowney releases Midsummer Nights Dream
9 Chickweed Lane cartoonist Brooke McEldowney will be releasing a new book this month entitled “Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night’s…
Michael Fry’s RingTales nominated for Webby
RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best…
Michael Ramirez wins Sigma Delta Chi Award
Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for…
Doonesbury hiatus creating many changes
I’ve kept a list, but haven’t had time to post what changes have been announced in various newspapers around the…
Mike Luckovich wins opinion awards
The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich as Editorial Cartoonist of the…
Comic book heroine coming to newspapers
Heroic Publishing has announced that they are selling a weekly newspaper comic strip based on their comic book character “Flare”….
Dan Piraro runs Bizarro on his blog
Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro has announced that he’ll be posting his comic panel on his blog each day. Since he’s…
Some comics to have eco-theme for Earth Day
As noted on Friday’s News Briefs, Patrick McDonnell has written an environmental theme story line for Mutts during the week…
“Cathy” featured on “30 Rock”
Cathy strip provided by Universal Press Syndicate. © Cathy Guisewite Last night’s “30 Rock” featured a Cathy comic strip that…
News Briefs for April 11, 2008
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started…
Jim Mooney’s last published work in Sunday’s Funky Winkerbean
Jim Mooney, a legend in the comic book industry artist who passed away last month, will have one last published…
Joe Heller opens exhibit
Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller will be featured in an exhibit that opens on April 19 in Neville…
Review: Willie & Joe The World War II Years
Tom Spurgeon has posted a favorable review of Bill Mauldin’s Willie & Joe collection created by Fantagraphics. Reading these comics…
Happy 20th Birthday to FoxTrot
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot turns 20 years old today. From Universal Press we learn that despite having retired the daily version…