Library receives grant for original cartoon art
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Syracuse University Library has been awarded a grant of $79,440 by the National Historical…
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Chip Bok and Helen Thomas to create kid’s book
Conservative editorial cartoonist Chip Bok will be teaming up with liberal columnist and White House correspondent Helen Thomas to produce…
Cartoonist wages “guerrilla war” in Nicaragua
Time magazine is featuring two Nicaraguan editorial cartoonist Pedro X. Molina and Manuel Guillen and Manuel Guillen and their struggles…
AAEC convention line up changes
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have made a few last minute changes to their programming for their upcoming convention…
Jim Davis talks about 30 years of Garfield
Next week on June 19, Jim Davis will celebrate 30 years doing the Garfield comic strip. His syndicate, Universal Press…
OC Register makes hasty retreat from comic drops
After announcing earlier this week that the Orange County Register was dropping Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, the editors…
Comic Page changes for the week
Here are four changes that caught my eye this week. I suspect next week will have a lot more as…
News Briefs for June 10, 2008
» Next week’s Rhymes with Orange will be written and drawn by guest cartoonist Suzy Becker whilst Hilary Price is…
Ruben Bolling wins Best Cartoon Award from AAN
Tom the Dancing Bug, the weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling, won the 2008 Best Cartoon Award from the Association…
James Kemsley awarded Order of Australia Medal
James Kemsley, who drew the Ginger Meggs comic for 23 years before passing last December, has been posthumously awarded Order…
Basketcase webcomic picked up by Alma Mater
Kelly Ferguson’s webocomic panel Basketcase has been picked up by his Alma Mater’s paper, the Mustang Daily. Perhaps more impressive…
Lee Salem provides insight into syndication
Dawn Douglass, a regular here on The Daily Cartoonist operates the Wet Ink forum and recently interviewed Lee Salem, President…
Lisa’s Story continues winning awards
Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk’s book, “Lisa’s Story,” has been honored with several awards. The book, which is a compilation…
Jordan wants to extradite Danish editors, toonist
A Jordanian court is holding an in-absentia trial on 10 Danish editors and one cartoonists who published the Mohammed cartoons…
Harvey Comics exhibit to open in San Francisco
The San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will open an exhibit starting June 28 featuring “a visual history of one…