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Garry Trudeau honored with Lifetime Acheivement Award

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is being honored by Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for international political commentary. Political cartoonist Garry Trudeau first launched the comic strip?Doonesbury? in 1970. It now appears in nearly 1400 daily and Sunday newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. His recent focus on injured veterans from the Iraq […]

John Kovaleski will be signing books in Gettysburg PA

Tomorrow night John Kovaleski, creator of “Bo Nanas” will be doing a book signing and answering questions on life as a syndicated cartoonist at the Gettysburg College-Musselman Library in Gettysburg PA. So…how do you do what you do?” is the question Bo Nanas creator John Kovaleski hears the most. He answers that question and many […]

Bok, Horsey, Kelley, Luckovich, Ohman up for ‘The Week’ Award

E&P reports that finalists for the annual “The Week” awards have been announced. Those included for Editorial Cartoonist of the year are: Chip Bok, Akron Beacon Journal, Creators Syndicate; David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tribune Media Services; Steve Kelley, Times-Picayune, Creators Syndicate; Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creators Syndicate; Jack Ohman, The Oregonian, Tribune Media Services.

Moderately Confused replaces The Phantom

The Baraboo News Republic (WI) is replacing The Phantom with Jeff Stahler’s Moderately Confused. No reasons were cited. The one-panel comic strip “Moderately Confused” will replace “The Phantom” on our comics page. “Moderately Confused” is drawn by Jeff Stahler, editorial cartoonist for The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. “Moderately Confused” was a finalist for the National Cartoonists […]

Professional cartooning isn’t for ‘wimps’

There is a great piece in the Sacramento Bee about the challenges of being a professional cartoonist. It covers some of the cartoonists that took sabaticals or ended their feature early due to the relentless deadlines. Quoted in the article are Darby Conley who puts in 70 hours a week into his feature “Get Fuzzy“, […]

Drew Sheneman: Are editorial cartoonist too hard on Bush?

In an opinion piece that was reprinted in the San Jose Mercury News, Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman opines about how fairly Bush is being treated on the opinion page by editorial cartoonists from around the country. Have cartoonists and satirists harped on these issues to the point of being vicious? I suppose that depends […]

Funny pages shrink in Sacramento Bee

In a cost cutting move, the ‘Sacramento Bee is reducing the number of pages in it’s Sunday funnies from 8 to 6 pages. Four of the comics dropped from the smaller section will still run in the Bee on weekdays. They include “Bizarro,” “Garfield,” “Hi and Lois,” and “Rubes.” Strips being dropped entirely by the […]

David Catrow working on ‘Horton Hears a Who’ movie

From Cagle’s blog comes news that David Catrow is moving into animation and is working as a character designer for the upcoming movie “Horton Hears a Who.” Cagle also reports that David won’t be returning to editorial cartooning in the near future. Copley News Service announced that David was taking a sabbatical to work on […]

Editorial cartoonist symposium planned at Hamilton College

Hamilton College editorial cartoonist Thomas Booth has helped organize a symposium on the topic of Editorial cartooning and Illustration. Participating in the event will be Tony Auth, Rob Rogers and Steve Brodner (who’s illustrations appear frequently in Sports Illustrated and Business Week). All three artists will speak about their work and careers. Auth’s talk is […]

Boondock loses two-thirds of client list during hiatus

E&P is reporting that only about 1/3 of Aaron McGruder’s client list is running the re-runs for Boondock. “Boondocks” clients not using the reruns are replacing McGruder’s feature with various comics. For instance, the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal picked “Candorville” by Darrin Bell of the Washington Post Writers Group, while The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal and […]

Dallas Morning News trying out several news strips

The Dallas Morning News has posted a story (registration required) to inform it’s readers that while Boondocks is away, they will be trying out four new strips: Brevity, Prickly City, Lio and an unamed feature to be announced later. The won’t add any new features on the Sunday comics, but will run larger versions of […]

Spot the Frog first collection book due in May

From a press release from United Media, Mark Heath’s feature “Spot the Frog” will get it’s first collection book this May (actually the press release says May, you can buy it now from Amazon). From the press release: Spot the Frog: A Cartoon Collection (Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, $10.95, May 2006) is the first book […]

Phil Frank talks about “Farley”

Phil Frank, creator of Farley was recently invited to speak at a local librar in Napa County (CA). There’s a good article about how his feature has evolved since it was first created back in 1975. “Farley was a kind of a wandering individual who was going from place to place as an interesting way […]

Who created Felix the cat?

For those interested in comic history, there is an article over on the Hudson Reporter about the history of Felix the Cat. Felix quickly became the star of silent animation for audiences in the United States and Europe, and even starred in his own successful comic strip, which began in 1923. However, Messmer wasn’t always […]

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