NPR had Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters on to discuss their favorite cartoons of the year. You can see a sample of their favorite cartoons on the NPR site and also click to listen to the interview. Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News have each […]

Editor and publisher ‘has an article on the passing of Bud Blake who drew the comic feature “Tiger.” More information can be had at King Feature’s web site. “Tiger” comic creator Bud Blake died Monday at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was 87. Blake created “Tiger” in 1965, and it still appears in […]

King Features will roll out a new strip on January 1 called “Retail”. The feature is created by Norm Feuti has worked in retail for more than 15 years. ?The concept of a retail-based strip has great mass appeal, because everyone can relate to it, either as a former or current retail worker or shopper,? […]

Our good cartooning friends to the north are having good fun with the current election. See what they’re up to. Thirty days into the federal election campaign, editorial cartoonists are having no trouble drawing inspiration from the campaign trail. In an interview from Halifax on Wednesday, Halifax Daily News cartoonist Michael DeAdder says the campaign […]

USA Today has an write up about the growing popularity of Manga and the two newspapers (LA Times and Seattle Post) that now carry syndicated manga. TOKYOPOP founder Stuart Levy acknowledges that manga is not yet as popular in the USA as it is in Japan, but he expects that will change soon. “It’s like […]

John C. Shaw, a reader of Alley Oop was recently disgruntled over whether Carol and Jack Bender who now do the Alley Oop strip, were using the word “abdominal” vs “abominable” correctly. He then claims that his mother, Jane, was the original inspiration for the character Ooola back before World War II. John asked Jane […]

In the one year since the launch of Brevity, the creators, Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry have picked up 150 papers. Now the Des Moines Register is one of them. The Register has done a good write up about the success and origin of Brevity. The whole thing started when Endore-Kaiser dropped a couple of […]

Another ‘save the editorial cartoonist’ story – this time in the Buffalo News. “Television and radio can’t do this,” said Bennett, who has won numerous awards for his work over the past two decades and is a five-time nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. “There’s something very personal and special about an editorial cartoon in […]

Slightly off topic, but the Museum of Modern Art has a exhibit called “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation.” The exhibit runs through February 6. In celebration of Pixar Animation Studios? twentieth anniversary in 2006, and as part of its exhibition of Pixar animation art, MoMA presents a complete retrospective of the company?s theatrical shorts and […]

This is one of the better write-ups about the adventures of Steve Kelley, editorial cartoonist for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. He talks about Katrina and his use of stand up comedy, cartooning to help people laugh again. He also does standup comedy, having appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” several times, as […]

Time Magazine has posted their recap of 2005 in editorial cartoons.

I noticed that the Madagascar DVD had a work in progress teaser for the “Over The Hedge” movie coming out this summer. Apple’s movie trailer site also has an ‘Over The Hedge’ trailer posted.

According to this report, Spider-Man is coming back to newspapers in a big way. News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are reintroducing Spider-Man as a weekly half page insert. NEW YORK News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are teaming up to distribute collectible editions of “Amazing Spider-Man” in Sunday papers beginning in late summer 2006. […]

Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug continues to pick up papers and the occassional headline. The Pittsburg Tribune-Review has picked up the strip and added it to their line up. They’ve also posted a story about the creator. “Really, I see it animated in my head,” he says. “So all I’m doing is picking out still […]

The Sun-Times’s new paid circulation numbers are down 100,000 papers. “That’s dramatic,” said John Morton, an industry analyst based in Silver Spring, Md. “It’s huge. It’s an enormous reduction, and we’ll see how they recover from it. In the current environment for the newspaper business, it’s very difficult to add to circulation, and I’m sure […]