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, […]
From E&P, we get this little nugget of information: A 100-year-old comic strip has made this week’s “Must List” in Entertainment Weekly. Ranking sixth on the top-10 list is “Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays,” the Peter Maresca-edited book picturing classic strips Winsor McCay created between 1905 and 1910
The Charles M. Schulz Museum will begin a new exhibit (scroll down the page) on February 4 (through May 29) called, “Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies.” The subtitle is: “An Exhibition of Peanuts Girls and their Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors” and as you might expect shows various girl characters in comic strips […]
An international cartoon contest has been announced. The theme is “Draw for peace For a world without war.” The requirements seem a bit non-traditional. One submits original work, on thin paper, with a required 20mm margin around the cartoon (and you don’t get your work back). On the flip side, the first prize wins 1550 […]
There is a really good interview with Clay Bennett, President of the AAEC, on PJnet. Bennett talks about the recent lay-offs and buy-outs, the journalistic standards of editorial cartoons, blogs vs. editorial cartoons, and his advice for anyone wanting to be an editorial cartoonist. Certainly the New York Times is a great paper. And it […]
The self syndicated strip “Girls & Sports” will be distributed by Creators starting January 1. Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein co-created “Girls & Sports” in the late 1990s. They built a clientele of 75-plus campus papers before starting to seek general-circulation papers in October 2004. They now have more than 100 non-college clients — an […]
A press release on Universal Syndicate’s web site gives us a peak at a story line in the newly launched “Ink Pen” where one of the characters has to change it’s name because it infringes on the trademark of another creation. The strips reflect the real-life issue Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap became aware of […]
Editorial cartoonist Dave Fitzsimmons will be a keynote speaker at the National Association of Realtors annual conference on April 2, 2006. Don?t miss this special event featuring keynote speaker Dave Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons is a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist for the Arizona Sun newspaper. As a political commentator, Fitzsimmons might appear cynical and irreverent. But […]
E&P is reporting that Joe Martin is starting his own syndicate to distribute his features. Longtime comic creator Joe Martin has left the world of established syndicates to launch his own company. Neatly Chiseled Features (NCF) is distributing Martin’s “Willy ‘n Ethel” (which began in 1981), “Mr. Boffo” (1986), and “Cats With Hands” (1999). Those […]
Cartoonist Jim Whiting has penned a book “Analecta: Selected Reflections of a Cartoonist’s Life”. Jim Whiting has written the autobiographical “Analecta: Selected Reflections of a Cartoonist’s Life.” Whiting, 79, worked on the syndicated “Ad Libs,” “Wee Women,” and “Li’l Ones” features. The last two were created by Mell Lazarus, who does “Momma” and “Miss Peach” […]
Newsweek Education Program has posted a “2005: The Year in Political Cartoons” teacher’s guide. 2005 arrived on the waves of a late-December tsunami in southern Asia, a catastrophic event that augured a year marked by natural disaster. A record number of hurricanes in the United States, including the devastating Katrina and Rita, was followed by […]
The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco has an exhibit called “Why Do They Hate U.S.? An International Perspective on American Politics & Culture”. The exhibit starts Dec. 22 and runs through April 30th. Even in times of international turmoil and American jingoism, the rest of the world, uncomfortably, still looks to the U.S. for […]