Blaine passes away at age 74
Blaine, The Hamilton Spectator’s editorial cartoonist for 30 years, passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 74. He…
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Editorial cartoonists push back on NYT
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to…
Radioactive spider-webs found in nuclear facility?
The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water…
Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest kicks off
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there…
MetLife posts cartoon-filled Superbowl commercial extras
Once again Mark Anderson is point man on all things the MetLife Superbowl commercial that featured over 75 different comic…
Mystery solved: Tribune pulled Doonesbury because it promoted a charity
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach…
Annie Awards announced; Rango takes Best Animated Feature
The Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are the animation industries highest honor and was held last Saturday. This…
Conservatives getting whipped into a lather over misrepresented historical cartoon
Some in conservatives circles are using an historical propaganda cartoon used in a Iowa classroom as rhetoric to end “the…
Lynch: Chris Hayes Show didn’t compensate cartoonist
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon…
Garfield enters ebook market
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering…
Call for papers for Comics & Medicine conference
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on…
Superbowl commercial brings 75+ cartoon characters together
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of…
QR coded Doonesbury pulled from major newspaper
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which…
Order of the Stick to raise $500k for out-of-print reprints
Amazing. Rich Burlew has raised nearly half of a million dollars through Kickstarter to reprint out-of-print collections of his webcomic…
Slate: Daffy Duck gets shot in the face
Interesting observation by Slate who looks at the 18 times Daffy Duck gets shot in the face within the three…