Yeah it’s the busy season but don’t forget to reserve your table for the NCS Fest. The Deadline is January 31, 2019 and we hope to remind you again after New Years Day. Coming to Huntington Beach, California, May 17-19, NCS Fest is shaping up to be the biggest FREE comic arts festival […]
I am writing in regards to the comic article printed in the Courier Traveler on Dec. 5 condemning Catholic clergy… I feel it is so wrong for a local newspaper to comment about a religious denomination. How about an apology to all Catholics and Catholic clergy. This apology should be in large bold print. […]
Letters to the Editor The Sunday Pearls was mentioned here the other day and it got some response in the real world. From the San Diego Union-Tribune I wish to commend the “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist, Stephan Pastis, for a truly profound strip last Sunday. Pastis lost his beloved dog and the panels depict […]
The Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla.) Managing Editor Jim Ross describes how his paper’s editors select and manage their editorial cartoons. From the column: As a writer, I envy cartoonists. They can summarize a feeling, a sentiment, a controversy, a triumph — anything, really — in a minimum amount of space. If a picture is worth a thousand […]
Tangentially related to syndication, NPR’s Shankar Vandantem looks into how local citizens pay more in taxes when local newspapers go out of business. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675505080/local-newspaper-closures-come-with-hefty-price-tag-for-residents
Ran into a bit of a flashback this morning when I came upon Jeff Boyer‘s latest cartoon for the Albany Times-Union. I was out of the newsroom but living in the area back when General Electric was forced to pay to clean up the PCBs in the bottom of the Hudson River, a legacy of […]