John Pritchett and Arnie Bernudez are now doing political cartoons, both for digital platforms. In Hawai’i John Pritchett has returned, after a six year absence, to Honolulu Civil Beat. From Civil Beat’s intro for John: Editor’s note: Longtime Hawaii political cartoonist John Pritchett returns to Civil Beat this week. John has created thousands of cartoons […]
Jan Eliot has announced the end of her Stone Soup comic strip: Dear gentle readers… For those of you who saw this Sunday’s strip, I know you can see that I have decided to retire Stone Soup. I can’t imagine turning the strip, which is so personal to me, over to anyone else, and my […]
The Gray Lady profiles the retiring Al Jaffee. From reporter George Gene Gustines‘ piece: The latest edition of the smart-alecky bible (MAD Magazine) of Boomer humor, billed as the “Special All Jaffee Issue” and available Tuesday, is filled with reprinted and previously unpublished work by or about Mr. Jaffee, the creator of two signature features […]
Coming up later this week, multidimensional cartoonists Ed Steckley and Jason Chatfield will be “webinar-ing” on the Internet at noon (PT) on Thursday. From Wacom’s site: Join New York based cartoonists and illustrators, Jason Chatfield and Ed Steckley, as they share their illustration chops and wonderful sense of humor. Jason and Ed will delight you […]
The Sydney Sun-Herald has dropped the Ginger Meggs comic strip without notice. Steve Panozzo reports on the Ginger Meggs Facebook page this weekend: Today, the editorial collective at the Sun-Herald decided to drop Ginger Meggs forthwith. It did not appear in the paper this morning, as it has for the last 99 years. They have […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media. I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote […]