Editor & Publisher has been sold to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. paving the way to resume the publication of the newspaper industry bible as of today. The details of the purchase are not released. According to an article posted on E&P’s website, Greg Mitchell, Joe Strupp and a number of other staffers are not being […]
Eric Millikin, interviews cartoonist Larry Wright for the The Comics Journal: EM: The Detroit News, which featured editorial cartoons by both you and Henry Payne up until recently, and before that both you and Draper Hill, has to be one of the last major metro dailies to have two editorial cartoonists on staff. LW: The […]
The Village Voice’s Brian Parks has ranked last year’s best New Yorker cartoonists. The article doesn’t specify the judging criteria. Top ranking cartoonists included: Paul North, John O’Brien, Alex Gregory, Drew Dernavich and Danny Shanahan. Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff landed at #7.
Kurt Westergaard, the most famous of the Mohammad cartoon creators, has been under Danish police protection for the last couple of years. Politiken reports that the new bodyguard system operated by PET (the Danish Intelligence and Security Service) will cost an annual equivalent of US $3.8 million for salaries alone. His home has also been […]
Mr. Media, AKA Bob Andelman recently interviewed Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis about the strips first collection: “A Boy Named Curtis”