Tom the Dancing Bug raises $4.6k for Haiti
Ruben Bolling has raised $4,674 with his “Tom the Dancing Bug Haitian Relief Challenge.” The money raised will go to…
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Tom Racine and me opine about the iPad and comics
This week’s Tall Tale Features tackle’s the iPad’s impact on comics. Hey, everyone else is talking about it, so why…
Rob Rogers cartoon causes stir amongst police
Post-Gazette’s Rob Rogers has upset Pittsburgh police officers. The cartoon responds to a news story where three white officers are…
Pet Sitters Intl. to use Garfield characters
Pet Sitters International has announced it will begin using characters from the Garfield comic strip to help its member programs…
Schieffer: Stewart, Colbert are editorial cartoonists
I believe the point has been made here on this blog previously, but nice to hear CBS’ Face the Nation…
Zapiro revives Zuma shower head imagery
South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) has reinstated the shower head above President Jacob Zuma’s head. In several cartoons,…
Ginger Meggs celebrates milestones
From Jason Chatfield, the current cartoonist with the Australian Ginger Meggs comic strip, we learn that the strip is celebrating…
Free: Syndicate media kits
Over the years, I’ve received media kits from most of the recent syndicate launches. After reviewing them, I’ve kept them…
Shoe character to be arrested this Sunday
This Sunday, Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk, chief reporter for TheTreetops-Tattler, will be arrested for refusing to reveal the source of his…
Shannon Wheeler’s rejected New Yorker cartoons coming to print
BOOM! Town, a new imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced they will be printing a collection of rejected cartoons submitted to…
Mr. Media interviews Ziggy’s Tom Wilson
Bob Andelman interviewed Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson yesterday in his latest Mr. Media podcast.
Sacco’s investigative-reporting war comic book
The LA Times interviews Joe Sacco on his latest book “Footnotes in Gaza” Joe is credited as inventing the genre…
Textbooks signed for iPad, Apple courts newspapers
CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port…
Avatar surpasses Titanic as top grossing film
Animated news reports that last weekend Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time. It has…
College president apologizes for cartoon
Delta College president Jean Goodnow has apologized to the for the hurt and disappointment caused by a cartoon that ran…