And Then? And Then?

D. D. Degg2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

Thirty years ago (give or take) new Sunday Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland had his dreams bashed by his first grade…

Gannett Cuts Op-Ed Pages to the Bone

D. D. Degg2 years ago2 years ago18 mins

Canton Repository Cuts Op-Eds, Signs Jerry King

D. D. Degg2 years ago2 years ago42 mins

The phone calls and emails roll in every so often. Readers want to complain about the opinion pages. Yes, even…

Then There Was This (Weekend Whatnots)

D. D. Degg3 years ago05 mins

Ninety-three-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and Village Voice veteran Jules Feiffer and his wife, JZ Holden, are listing their Shelter Island home for…

Assorted Saturday Short Subjects

D. D. Degg3 years ago3 years ago09 mins

Reading The Funnies as a Family There’s a secret to the comics page, though. The secret is, you don’t need…

Friday Free-For-All

D. D. Degg3 years ago3 years ago06 mins

We’ve been on a bit of a book kick here lately, so let’s start with that. While every year is…

Newspaper industry

A WaPo Look at Newpapers

D. D. Degg3 years ago05 mins

Gannett, the largest chain in the country, last month eliminated one day of print per week at 136 of its…

Cartoon News Briefs

D. D. Degg3 years ago08 mins

Keith Knight lives just outside of Chapel Hill, NC, these days, but from 1990-2008, he resided in San Francisco where…

Newspaper industry

In the Land of the Gannetts

D. D. Degg3 years ago3 years ago05 mins

Last Summer the good news was that Gannett/Gatehouse was unloading the local weeklies they had accumulated back into the hands…

Question Re: Print v E-Edition Newspaper Comics

D. D. Degg3 years ago3 years ago13 mins

The Lewiston Tribune, along with its sister paper The Moscow-Pullman Daily News, has had some delivery problems with the hard…

Letters To and From Editors re: Ed-Op Cartoons