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 […]

Patrick McDonnell’s first story book “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the NYT Beset Seller list for Children’s books according to his web site. It is with great pleasure to annouce that Patrick’s first storybook, “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the New York Times Best Seller […]

From editor and publisher: NEW YORK “The Family Circus” creator Bil Keane drew a cartoon for a 2006 calendar distributed by The White House Commission on Remembrance. This month, the commission sent thousands of the poster-sized calendars to U.S. troops around the world and to children who have lost a loved one in the service […]

In observance of the Christmas holiday, I will not be updating the Daily Cartoonist over the Christmas weekend. I’ll resume posting on December 27th. I appreciate the encouragement received from you, the Daily Cartoonist visitors and subscribers. I wish you all a warm and pleasant Christmas/holiday. All the Best, Alan Gardner

I noticed gocomics.com when I was visiting Gardfield‘s web site a couple of days ago, so I assumed that GoComics was an established product/feature, but the press release announcing the services hit the wire today. From the press release: With a huge list of popular comic strips, GoComics lets fans put their favorite characters on […]

E&P is reporting that Kate Salley Palmer will have a exhibit of her work on display at the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library running from January 10 through April 14. Palmer, a former staff cartoonist for The Greenville (S.C.) News, left syndication in 1989. Since then, she has written and illustrated children’s books. Also, […]