Stories by : Charles Brubaker

The Chicago Reader posted a story last week about the Northwest Herald bragging about its staff cartoonist, Scott Nychay, whom they had laid off months earlier.

E&P reports that Daryl Cagle has added more cartoonists to his web site, including Mike Luckovich, who is returning after a 4-year hiatus. Others new to Cagle’s site are Jeff Darcy of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, the conservative team of Allen Forkum and John Cox, and alternative cartoonist Tim Eagan.

Rex Babin, of the Sacramento Bee, and Mikhaela Reid, an alternative weekly cartoonist, were interviewed by NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussing their favorite cartoons on George W. Bush and on cartooning the next president. You can listen to it here.

Matt Bors, who does Idiot Box for altweeklies, writes about his meeting with Dennis Kucinich at AAEC on his blog. Another altweekly cartoonist, Jen Sorensen of Slowpoke, also talks about her meeting with Kucinich on her blog as well.

July 9th entry of Mallard Fillmore by Bruce Tinsley features an tribute to Johnny Hart, who died in April. Why it took 3 months to do this strip, no one knows.

Creators Syndicate recently posted samples of their new feature – Free Range by Bill Whitehead. Here’s another homepage to the comic, although it’s obviously incomplete. No announcement so far on when this comic will begin appearing in newspapers.