Webcomicker Paul Southworth has announced that he’s ending his long running comic Ugly Hill. Digital Strips talks to Paul about the decision and his work with Ugly Hill. Mike Rhode notes that the Examiner (D.C.) has increased Nate Beeler’s editorial cartoons to about 1/3 of the tabloid page size. Mason Mastroianni, who took over B.C. […]
The Houston Chronicle has a profile of Jeff Kinney, the creator of the best selling series “Diary of a Whimpy Kid.” While I knew the book was a best seller (my kids have devoured the series of books), I wasn’t aware that the book was first a web product that is still doing well in […]
Mike LeFort of the Rapid City Journal has responded to a reader complaint over the use of the word “squaw” in J.C. Duffy’s Fusco Brothers strip last week. The word “squaw,” according to some activists is not a real native american word, but “a degrading sexual invective coined by Europeans based on an obscure Mohawk […]
Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson author of the Time cover story “How to Save Your Newspaper.”
1981 report on newspapers online is a story from KRON in San Francisco about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle’s forays into online news in 1981.