» NPR reviews Willie & Joe collection. » E&P reports that a new “Luann’ comic collection is coming next month and a second Lio collection too. » Last week I reported that Charlie Daniel is celebrating 50 years of cartooning. The Knoxville News Sentinel has another write-up on his career and impact in his community. […]
Harry Bliss, a frequent New Yorker cartoonist, is releasing a collection of his one-panel cartoons in a book entitled “Death by Laughter.” The book will feature more than a 100 of his cartoons, which according to the Burlington Free Press contains a good number of “not-always-funny themes” such as death. In the Burlington interview he […]
The Washington Post has launched a new blog called “Comics Riff” which will be maintained by former Warped cartoonist Michael Cavna. The blog will be a daily critique of the funny pages, as well as interviews with cartoonists, reader polls and live discussions.
The July 21st New Yorker cover is a raising eyebrows and both the Obama and McCain campaigns have called it “tasteless and offensive.” The cover shows a cartoon of presidential candidate Barack Obama in a turban and middle-eastern garb fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife as the American flag burns in the fireplace. The New Yorker’s press […]
The Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler has announced on his blog that he has a new duty each week to draw caricatures for the front covers of the Examiner papers in Washington, Baltimore and San Francisco. Regarding the caricatures, he writes: They’re definitely a departure for me in style and are proving to be […]
Tribune Media Syndicate has responded to questions posted by E&P’s Dave Astor about their online comics service’s apparent closure. A spokesman for the company told Dave that the site was taken down after the company was not able to move the database away from a server that TMS no longer owned. The company is planning […]
The Washington Post has an excellent article on the challenges of free speech, religion and cartooning that is expanding out from the infamous Mohammed cartoons in Denmark citing the recent arrest of Gregorius Nekschot and a case in Britain that caused police to end an ad campaign that featured a German shepherd puppy because dogs […]