United Media is launching a new contemporary action adventure comic strip on January 5, 2009 by Dan Thompson. The new feature is entitled Rip Haywire who is a soldier of fortune cast as a comic version of Indiana Jones, James Bond and Jason Bourne. Along for the ride in his adventures are his cowardly dog, […]
Brian Duffy, who was laid off from the Des Moines Register last week, took up an offer from a publisher of an alt-weekly paper to do a full page cartoon without restrictions according to politicker.com cartoonist Rob Tornoe. The cartoon appeared in today’s CityView and depicts Brian walking into the sunset thinking “Sunset, no a […]
» The Pulitzer Prize board has opened up the requirements to allow internet-only media to be considered for the prize. » uClick hopes to roll out hundreds of comics for the iPhone. » Bob Staake’s cover for Time magazine has been recognized as the best cover of 2008. » ABC is going to broadcast a […]
With the news that Tribune Co. has filed for chapter 11 to protect itself from creditors while it restructures its debt, Mary Elson, Tribune Media Syndicate managing editor, has sent an email to its creators to reassure them that TMS is not going out of business and will operate business as usual. An excerpt from […]