Profiled: John McPherson, creator of Close to Home
Bucknell University has posted a profile of Close to Home creator John McPherson who graduated from the university in 1983….
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Profiled: Charles M. Schulz Museum
Great article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Charles Schulz Museum. The Schulz Museum has had about 100 unique…
Check out: ProCreate app on sale (50% off)
I’ve been a fan of ProCreate for a couple of years now. By far the best drawing app on iOS….
Michael Cavna posts two part illustrated interview with Richard Linklater
Washington Post Comics Riff blogger Michael Cavna posts a two part “illustrated interview” with director Richard Linklater believed to be…
Newspaper comics beat webcomics in “unmatched in artistry”
Leo Traub writes: Newspaper comic strips have an artistic quaintness that endears them instantly to the reader. Despite dropping newspaper…
Check out “Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be”
For those of you interested in comic history, make sure you check out this new book by Michael Kahn and…
Boing Boing: The 16 cartoonists who changed the world
Boing Boing has published an article by Monte Beauchamp who has identified 16 cartoonists he argues were the early trend…
Profile: Jeff Koterba on 25 years at The World-Herald
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba has reached the 25 year milestone with The World-Herald – his local paper where he grew…
TIME: Why Peanuts Endures: ?The Football is Always Pulled Away?
Last week, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts turned 64. TIME magazine ran two stories about Peanuts: See How Peanuts Addressed Feminism, Nuclear…
Follow up on fall out over Holbert’s watermelon toothpaste Obama cartoon
Last week’s cartoon by Jerry Holbert placed the cartoonist in an awkward position of either admitting he created a cartoon…
NYT apologizes for cartoon poking fun at India’s mission to Mars
From the Times of India Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post: “The…
Boston Herald, Jerry Holbert apologize for Obama Watermelon cartoon
Both Jerry Holbert and his newspaper are officially apologizing for the cartoon that ran on Wednesday featuring a man (presumably…
Mike Peters commemorates 30 years of Grimmy with two week how it all began series
Mother Goose and Grimm has turned 30. The strip created by Mike Peters officially turned 30 years old yesterday (or…
Yup, Jerry Holbert just used ‘watermelon’ in an Obama cartoon (UPDATED)
A cartoon by Jerry Holbert that ran yesterday in the Boston Herald has people speechless and wondering how it even…