With the launch of “Garfield 2” later this summer, The Game Factory will be releasing the video game, based on the movie, for the PS2, Nintendo DC and the PC.

This blog is certainly growing at a fast clip and in an effort to provide you with the features you requested back in early April, I’ve rethought the layout and content of this blog.� I haven’t got rid of any thing (except some advertising) but starting this week, I’ll roll out an events calendar and next Monday will debut the first “In Focus” article – where we take a look at something big happening in the cartooning community.

The Detroit Free Press ran a blurp about some changes to their Sunday comics.  They’ve picked up Cory Thomas’ “Watch Your Head” they debuted in April to take advantage of the Boondocks hiatus.

will feature men and women competing for the title of “Superhero” and to be the star of a new comic book according to the San Jose Mercury News.  The show will premiere on the Sci-fi channel on July 26.Those that don’t make it will be ordered to “Turn in your spandex!”

CNW Telbec:Editorial Cartooning – The gold award winner was Bruce MacKinnon, The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, NS, for his Show Of Work.  – The other finalists in this category were Michael de Adder, The Daily News, Halifax, NS, for his Show Of Work and Greg Perry, Telegraph- Journal, Saint John, NB, for his Show Of Work.

According to his web site, he is giving away an original framed painting of his characters to one lucky individual who either emails the editor of their newspaper asking them to subscribe to Dog Eat Doug (if the paper doesn’t carry it) or thank the editor for running the feature (if the paper already susbscribes)….  The winner will be randomly selected at the end of this month and announced on his web site.You can see the artwork that will be given away on his web site.

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted the schedule and agenda of their annual conference that will be held this June 7-10 in Denver.  The Danish cartoon will dominate two sessions and will also include two national figures: U.S. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col., 1974-86) and National Public Radio’s Scott Simon.Visit the AAEC for more details.Hat tip to E&P for pointing out the schedule.

With less than 2 weeks before the public release of Michael Fry and T….  From the New York Times, comes an article that will step you though the history of how RJ made it to the Silver Screen and the challenges that had to be overcome to get the movie to the public.

The Daily Cartoonist began a little over six months ago as an experiment in blogging, and a means of inserting myself into the cartooning community. The response to this blog has been inspiring. Each month the number of readers continues to grow – despite my having done no marketing. About a month ago, I posted […]

Blondie cartoonist Dean Young will be taking Dagwood’s sandwich penchant and turning it into a chain of sandwich shops according to the St….  The first show is slated to open mid June in the Palm Harbor strip shopping center.

Today is National Cartoonist day (or at least today is the day it was usually observed) and at least one cartoonist is doing something to mark the day.  Dexter Booth, the “cartoonist-in-residence” of the Fredericksburg Times (home of editorial cartoonist Clay Jones) will be at the local museum drawing cartoons for children.

The Montclair Times has posted a job opening for an editorial cartoonist to “local, regional and national issues.”…  Skilled with artistic and satirical flair?After more than eight years of creating incisive, poignant, and witty editorial cartoons for The Montclair Times, Bill Valladares will be departing the area for a new job in Georgia.The Times seeks a editorial cartoonist who can nail local, regional and national issues on deadline pressure, usually intertwined with The Times? editorial stances.

Information Week has a story about a new California startup company that is offering a free comic strip service that includes “Girls & Sports” (by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein) and “The Meaning of Lila” (by John Forgetta)….  Peanuts is distributed through Namco; Dilbert can be had through Verizon; Garfield is distributed through Gocomics; and GoGags is also a newly launched product that allows any cartoonist to get into the phonesWill mobile phones be the next comics page?

After the LA Times ran a story quoting comic strip heavy weights Berkeley Breathed, Wiley Miller questioning the future of the American Comics page, the discussion has been spreadign to other publications.Today on CNN.com, they have a story called “Who reads the comics anymore?”…  On the one hand they want younger readers which would require hip-per, edgier features like “Pearls Before Swine” and “Get Fuzzy,” but such features are lost on the older generation that is the bread and butter of the newspaper subscriptions.From Tom Daning, managing editor for United Media:”They’re looking for something new and edgy, but many of their readers are over 35,” he says.

The article talks about the growing popularity of the quirky strip and how it almost didn’t make it.Even then, he didn’t have instant success.”He was in a holding pattern at [syndicate] United Media,” recalls Pastis’ friend and “Get Fuzzy” cartoonist Darby Conley…. More recently, the strip has gotten a big boost from newspapers wanting to fill the hole left by the temporary run of “Calvin and Hobbes” (tied in with “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes”) and those dopey crocodile characters, who moved in next to Zebra (or, as the crocs say, “zeeba neighba”).