The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library is running an exhibit on Sam Milai, an editorial cartoonist for the influential African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier for 33 years. Most of Sam’s work was believed to been destroyed in a fire, but his granddaughter found some in a suitcase in her mother’s attic and donated […]
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Berkeley Breathed was on NPR this morning to explain why he is ending Opus. For good. He’s my quick transcript of what he said about the end. “I’ll be leaving Opus in a way that it should be very clear that this time there is no way going back home. I don’t think about myself […]
Chad Carpenter’s self syndicated comic Tundra is now in stores on greeting cards. The first batch of eight different Tundra greeting cards are birthday cards with more due out in November featuring “snowman” and Christmas. Another line of Father’s Day cards is also planned for release. The cards are printed and distributed through Recycled Paper […]
This week The Daily Cartoonist celebrates its third birthday. The community around the blog continues to grow. Off the top of my head, the second year events that will be remembered are: the wholesale loss of America’s great talent of editorial cartoonists, the rocky launch of the “hybrid” and smoother transition into the For Better […]
This week The Daily Cartoonist turns three years old (insert joke here about the terrible twos). If you’re new to this community or you’ve been a frequent visitor for a while, you know this blog has grown and matured into a respectable news source. I dare not even begin to calculate the hours I’ve invested […]
The good news is that Mike Peters isn’t retiring as the editorial cartoonist for The Dayton Daily News, but the sad news for those who appreciate his editorial work, he’s reducing his workload from four to five cartoons a week to two or three. The Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist and creator of Mother Goose and […]