After shutting down the print edition September 2017, now the online Village Voice is shuttered. Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition, owner Peter Barbey told the remaining staff today that the publication will no longer be posting any new stories. Barbey said that […]
Writing to the editor of the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star, reader Clifford Schneider offers a common-sense solution for what’s ailing newspapers. From the letter: The comics section of the Daily Star is undeniably the most important part of the paper. So why do I so often have to search for it as a mere attachment […]
“Phoebe and her Unicorn” cartoonist Dana Simpson’s longtime (1998 -2008) web comic “Ozy and Millie” has been collected into book form and is now available from Andrews McMeel Publishing. See it for sale here at Amazon. The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
In a huge piece of news for the newspaper industry, the United States International Trade Commission overturned a Trump administration decision to tariff Canadian newsprint. From the New York Times story: The unanimous decision by the five-member body eliminates tariffs that have been in effect since January, handing a win to small and medium-size newspapers, […]
Amid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn’t make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did. Granted, it wasn’t over math, since my boys were both better at math than I was and the teaching of math is far superior than it was in my day. Those factors are probably related, […]