The Village Voice is Silenced
After shutting down the print edition September 2017, now the online Village Voice is shuttered. Three years after buying The…
August 2018
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Tucson Reader Makes Bid to be World’s Greatest Newspaper Editor
Writing to the editor of the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star, reader Clifford Schneider offers a common-sense solution for what’s ailing…
Dana Simpson’s ‘Ozy & Millie’ Now Available in Handy Book Collection
“Phoebe and her Unicorn” cartoonist Dana Simpson’s longtime (1998 -2008) web comic “Ozy and Millie” has been collected into book form…
Canadian Newsprint Tariffs Overturned
In a huge piece of news for the newspaper industry, the United States International Trade Commission overturned a Trump administration…
Comic Strip of the Day – Friday Funnies
Amid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn’t make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did….
Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich – RIP
I don’t do much comic book news, but these two were a part of my youth. Marie Severin and Gary…
Karen Moy is Worthy
Karen Moy has been the credited writer of the Mary Worth comic strip since 2004. Two years ago she was…
Deflocked Creator Jeff Corriveau Interviewed
Earlier this week Stephen Roth interviewed Jeff Corriveau about his Deflocked comic strip and life as a cartoonist. GoComics: You’ve…
Frankensteinian – Bits from Here and There
It’s Mary Shelley’s birthday so I’m gathering pieces from various spots to compose a Quick Hits entry. It’s BookFest…
Wilders Cancels Muhammad Cartoon Contest
As Mike Peterson noted today, anti-Muslim fanatic Geert Wilders planned to replicate a cartoon contest that a dozen years ago…
Comic Strip of the Day: Unleashing The Bêtes Noires
xkcd fires back on behalf everyone comfortable enough with the language to use it intelligently, by which I mean to…
Bill Griffith: Nobody’s Fool
Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith has a new book coming out next Spring. Not that an excuse is needed…
Chad Carpenter’s Tundra Gets Into Home Paper
After 27 years cartoonist Chad Carpenter gets his Tundra comic strip into his hometown newspaper. Monday afternoon Chad Carpenter sat…
Stephan Pastis Scoffs at Readers’ Complaints…
Stephan Pastis scoffs at readers’ complaints… and then, in his own way, trolls them. They say it’s unwise to annoy…
Comic Strip of the Day: Random Outrage
I wish I thought Matt Davies‘ cartoon would reach more of the people it probably won’t. I find myself increasingly…