Former The Orange County Register editorial cartoonist Mike Shelton, along with another former O.C. Register employee have launched a new web site for their animated editorial cartoons called politicalbastards.com (or the more mildly titled politicalbleep.com). “Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P. The duo hopes the new site — […]
From an article in the L.A. Times we note that Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist and syndicate owner, and Bob Scheibel, a former journalism professor and comic collector, are neighbors – but their views of editorial cartooning are anything but. Scheibel view: Today’s political cartoons are too wishy-washy or wordy. He says newspaper staff cutbacks and […]
Mel Casson, writer and illustrator for the Redeye comic strip passed away last week at the age of 87 of Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 20 years, Mel illustrated “Redeye,” a parody strip about a 19th century tribe of Native Americans, for King Features Syndicate. When cartoonist Bill Yates, who wrote the “Redeye” scripts, retired in […]
Editor and Publisher’s Dave Astor has additional details to yesterday’s news that Creators Syndicate is purchasing Copley News Service. According to the report, Creators has had interest in Copley for many years and that Copley has decided to focus their energies elsewhere – opening up the possibility of selling the syndicate. When asked why CNS […]
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog will begin appearing in Germany’s Die Zeit weekly newspaper for a 12 week run on their kid’ page. Die Zeit has a circulation of about 500,000 and an estimated readership of 2 million. Jonathan writes on his blog that “editors chose Bleeker because it appealed to both children and […]