One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages updated list
Earlier this month, I reported that Stay Tooned! editor/publisher John Read was curating a traveling exhibit through the South. The…
January 2010
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Tom the Dancing Bug Haitian Relief Challenge
Got an email from Ruben Bolling regarding his participation in helping raise money for Save the Children (an established charity…
More details regarding NYT paywall announcement
Bill Mitchell of the Poynter Institute and Bill Grueskin, academic affairs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and…
Matt Damon and Brad Pitt sign on to Happy Feet
Movie Line reports that Matt Damon and Brad Pitt have signed on to voice characters for Happy Feet 2 which…
WSJ: Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
There have been rumors ad nausea about the supposed tablet that Apple will unveil next week. While fun, I have…
Westergaard video brings threats to teen creator
A 17 year-old teen girl created a video based on Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video that has resulted in…
NCSF launches Help the Hodges fund-raiser
The charitable, not-for-profit arm of the National Cartoonists Society will be launching an online auction through e-Bay to raise money…
Saginaw stereotype in cartoon upsets readers
It seems like college cartoon controversies happen in bunches. Here’s another from Michigan. Apparently a comic strip that appeared in…
New York Times to begin charging access
Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, has announced that starting next year they will begin charging…
Golden Globes awards UP with two awards
Disney/Pixar’s “UP” took home two Golden Globe awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score. In the running…
Amazon announces new royalty options for ebooks
From Smart Money comes news that Amazon has announced a new royalty option offering greater incentive to authors and publishers…
Rhode to write comic column for Washington paper
Mike Rhode, who writes the ComicsDC blog, has been tapped to write a weekly column on local comic arts for…
Not looking to start another war…
Having worked as a web designer and developer for about a dozen years, I see it as the future (and…
You’re paying up the wazoo for free information
Nicholas Carr is onto something. Personally, I pay for broadband for my home, and then two data plans for my…
Watercolor secrets from Richard Thompson
There are a few cartoonists who are real masters of the watercolor medium – Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de…