Gannett Corrects The Daily Cartoonist
In response to The Daily Cartoonist story about Gannett unifying their comics pages, the newspaper group has sent a correction:…
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The New Gannett Unified Comics Pages – Update: Gannett Issues a Correction
Gannett’s USA TODAY Network of newspapers will all carry the exact same comics from a seemingly select list on their…
The Old Comics Page Returns to Park Hill
On September 13, 2022, as part of the Lee Enterprises newspaper group, the Daily Journal of Park Hill, Missouri, on…
KTDC Late News
Two popular New Yorker magazine cartoonists, who also happen to be West Tisbury neighbors and dog-walking partners, shared the stage…
“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…
CSotD: Where nobody knows your name
(photo: NBC) With all due respect, they got it wrong. When Cheers was taken over by a corporation, they brought…
“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…
Newspaper Apologizes for Editorial Cartoon, Bans Cartoonist from Their Pages – updated
On Wednesday The Quad City Times published a cartoon by Leo Kelly taking a swipe at MAGA racism, but the…
Prairie Mountain Unifies Sunday Funnies
Prairie Mountain Publishing, an arm of Digital First Media/Alden Global Capital, has consolidated the Sunday comics section of four of…
More Lee Enterprise Newspapers Join the Publication Reduction Schedule
As we reported a month ago Lee Enterprises newspapers are reducing their publication schedule to three days a week. We…
The Rare May 34th Roundup
JD Crowe newsletter; Doug Pike novella; Stephen King and The Far Side; News Deserts and Ghost Papers; Castigating Rick McKee…
Joplin Globe Funny Pages Less Funny
“Pickles” is safe. So is “Zits.” And please, no calls about “Prince Valiant.” Our hero survives. We are making some…
Expanded Lee Enterprises Papers Coming Soon … And Half as Often … By Mail
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print…
Paper’s Solution To Cartoon Criticism? Less
I’m writing this as a concerned citizen of Napa and former president of PFLAG Napa. Tom Stiglich’s cartoon on April…
When What You Love is Self-Destructing
Kevin Necessary got a letter asking why he is no longer drawing editorial cartoons. He tore up the first draft…