Posted on: September 1, 2009

Syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin (“Rubes”) will be at the Authors Booth at the California State Fair and does a Q & A.

After just over three years of daily syndication with United Features, “Secret Asian Man” will shift gears and return to a weekly format. On Saturday September 19, 2009 papers will run the very last daily strip. Tak Toyoshima writes: The characters and continuity will remain but I will produce one larger strip a week (like […]

Former sports cartoonist Phil Bissell, who created the original New England Patriots logo “Pat Patriot” in 1960, is featured and recounts the history behind the creation of the football team mascot.

At the annual Burning Man communal gathering and arts festival this weekend, you will find a boat-shaped car with a cutout of Snoopy on the bow driven by Jeannie Schulz, widow of â??Peanutsâ? cartoonist Charles Schulz. â??I loved Burning Man last year. I took up â??Peanutsâ?? books to share, and volunteered in the coffee shop,â? […]

Publishers Weekly looks at how print collections fit in with web comics. Web comics are counterintuitive: they’re online for free at the same time the creator or publisher is offering the same stories for sale. â??You would assume that people wouldn’t want to buy something if they’ve read it already,â? says David Land, an editor […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer has illustrated a children’s book written by his daughter, Kate, about the struggle to choose the new puppy President Obama had promised his daughters, Sasha and Malia. â??It was as much as, if not more fun than any other illustration job Iâ??ve ever had,â? he said.

At a hearing in California on Monday, three judges at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave Paris Hilton the OK to pursue her case against Hallmark, rejecting the company’s claims the cartoon on a greeting card was of a generic woman and not Hilton. The card showed Hilton’s face superimposed on a cartoon of […]