Are Three Rocks Having Fun Yet?
With the imminent release (unless you already got a special edition at the San Diego Comic Con) of Bill Griffith‘s…
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Summer Vacation Assignment: Book Report
Where I’m Coming From, The Buildings are Barking, Funny Things, Poor Helpless Comics!, The Talk, The He-Man Effect, You’re Not…
Pete Kaminski – RIP
Creators Syndicate coordinator and graphic designer Pete Kaminski has passed away. Peter James Kaminski February 9, 1990 ~ July 12,…
Robert Arial Takes 2023 AAN Award
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) announced the winner of their 2023 awards. Celebrating excellence in local journalism, these awards…
Steve Breen Departs The Union-Tribune
Another Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist has lost his position with his newspaper. Steve Breen, cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune,…
2023 Eisner Award Winners
The 2023 Eisner Award winners were announced at the San Diego Comic Con. Below are a few of the winners…
“Say it ain’t so, McClatchy!” Readers React
Editor’s Note: As part of the continued evolution of our business and due to changing reader habits, McClatchy will no…
Heathcliff Cartoonist Peter Gallagher Opens the 2024 Season of PBS’ Comics Culture
The 2024 season of KPBS’ Comics culture has kicked off by interviewing Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher. Famed for weirdness, Peter…
Pogo Gone – It Weren’t Nohow Permanent
Ill health took a toll on Walt Kelly and Pogo. By the early 1970s friends and family were pitching in…
The Weekly Wayback Whensday Window
In places like New York City, papers were sold to the masses at a penny a copy. Thus this era…
Zits is Listed as a Great But Forgotten 1990s Newspaper Comic Strip
A recent list of “10 Great But Forgotten 1990s Newspaper Comic Strips” includes current comics Zits, Mutts, Non Sequitur, Sherman’s…
Flash Gordon Returns (to Comic Books)
King Features Syndicate “announced a master publishing partnership with Mad Cave Studios to develop a full line of new narratives,…
Strippin’ the Comic Con
That’s comic, I say comic strippin’ the Comic Con, son. Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis, both veterans of comic conventions,…
“a crisis of newspapers failing to connect”
The Associated Press drops the story of McClatchy ridding themselves of political cartoons and cartoonists. Here, via the Voice of…
Kevvo is New AdExchanger Cartoonist
Back in May we noted that AdExchanger had lost Nate Neal as their weekly cartoonist, now, a month late, we…