AAEC Convention details emerging
Last December the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced they’d hold their 2013 convention in Salt Lake City, UT. In…
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Garry Trudeau urges ‘stick with print’; webcartoonists react
Saturday’s Doonesbury attempted at humor at the current state of newspapers by asking “what happens to comics if newspapers go…
Dan Wasserman leaves the Boston Globe. Kind of
Boston area media critic Dan Kennedy is reporting that Boston Globe cartoonist Dan Wasserman has left the paper, but will…
Another Calvin and Hobbes original hits auction
Just a couple of months after an original Bill Watterson watercolor Sunday of Calvin & Hobbes went for an outstanding…
Lance Armstrong is Sports Jerk of the Year
Universal Uclick, GoComics and Bill Hinds have announced that this year’s the 2012 Sports Jerk of the Year Award in…
Duluth plays chicken with Blondie and King Features
I don’t run blog posts about who’s getting picked up or dropped anymore, but this story has some interest into…
Wanna be on TV? Are you a walking cartooning encyclopedia?
I was forwarded a note that a casting agent is looking for someone with “encyclopedic knowledge of cartoons” to be…
Corey Pandolph selling rejected New Yorker Cartoons to free his car
New Yorker cartoonist Corey Pandolph, (AKA Fake Rockstar, former Elderberries cartoonist, creator of Toby, Robot Satan and Barkeater Lake) woke…
Help fund MAD documentary
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1438570989/when-we-went-mad-a-documentary-of-ecch-ic-proportiThis looks like a great project. My name is Alan Bernstein – I am the Co/Producer and Director of the…
Winsor McCay was targeted in shake-down scheme
Fascinating story about a woman who approached famed cartoonist Winsor McCay to threaten a lawsuit against him if he didn’t…
Did The Badger Herald pull comic due to race concerns
Gus McNair writes a column in The Badger Herald taking issue with the paper’s decision to pull a comic from…
B&N to close one-third of its stores in next decade
The Wall Street Journal (via Huffington Post) is reporting that Barnes & Noble has said that it will close about…
MoCCA to honor Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith
The Society of Illustrators has named Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith as their guest of honor at this year’s…
Columbia University adds Superman and Batman material to Comics and Graphic Novels collections
From Columbia University: Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two significant…
Charlie Brown voice actor pleads not guilty to stalking
From the Daily Mail: The actor who portrayed the voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts television shows has appeared in…