A Charlie Brown Christmas aired last night the 40th time and according to E&P – the price for a 30 second commercial was $200k. NEW YORK As the 40-year-old “A Charlie Brown Christmas” airs once again Tuesday night, the “Peanuts” property continues to earn many millions for the estate of the late Charles Schulz. ABC-TV […]
United Media is launching a new strip on January 2. The new feature Cow & Boy is by Mark Leiknes. Mark Leiknes’ strip — titled, appropriately enough, Cow & Boy – focuses on the friendship between a farm kid named Billy and an 800-pound bovine animal. Early clients include the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the […]
E&P has a story about comments Wiley Miller has made suggesting that in addition to Black Ink Monday, syndicated editorial cartoonists should cease to syndicate their work for a week or even up to a month. “The biggest problem is that staff cartoonists are too easily replaced with cheap syndicated cartoons,” said Miller. So staff […]
The Michigan Daily has a story regarding a cartoon that is sparking a possible boycott from the NAACP. The University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People may be considering boycotting The Michigan Daily because of an editorial cartoon it published Nov. 28. The cartoon displays a classroom of smiling dark-skinned […]
Winning the pulitzer certainly doesn’t hurt your subscriber-ship. E&P is reporting that Nick Anderson’s client list jumped 22 papers after the pulitzer. WPWG Editorial Director/General Manager Alan Shearer called the 22-client jump “amazing for an editorial cartoonist,” even with a Pulitzer factored in. Shearer noted that editorial cartoons can be a tough sell these days.
The Comics Reporter is pointing to the comics.com site for “That’s Life” where it has been announced that the strip by Mike Twohy has come to an end. The last current “That?s Life” strip will be on December 3, 2005. Starting on December 4th Comics.com will be re-running the strip starting from the very beginning. […]
There’s been a shake up in newspapers across America. With the end of “That’s Life,” newspaper’s are selecting other panels to take its place. The Northwest Arkansas Times has picked up Reality Check, by Dave Whamond. “Reality Check is a great new addition to our lineup of comics in the Times,” Executive Editor Greg Harton […]
Congrats to a bunch of aspiring cartoonists. From a press release off of Universal Presses web site: Student Cartoonists’ Awards Announced Kansas City, MO (12/05/2005) Four first place winners were selected among many aspiring young cartoonists who participated in the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) /Associate Collegiate Press Cartooning (ACP) Awards, co-sponsored by Universal Press […]
Pat Bagley, editorial cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune, will be signing his new book at Ken Sander’s Rare Books on Friday, December 9, at 7pm. Bagley’s book “Clueless George” is available at Amazon books. The last place you’d expect to hear that political cartoonist Pat Bagley got his start is BYU. But there you […]
Clay Bennett spoke on NPR All Things Considered today to discuss the current state of editorial cartooning. You can listen to archived audio of the interview on NPR’s site Major U.S. newspapers continue to cut staff to offset disappointing revenue. But recent layoffs and buyouts at two newspapers owned by the Tribune Company prompted editorial […]
The political action group that spent millions of dollars to defeat President Bush in 2004 is now mobilizing to protest and stop the lay-offs at Tribune papers and other large newspaper companies across the country. The grassroots activists have been circulating petitions to stop announced job cuts at four Tribune papers. The group says it […]
Cartoonist J.P. Trostle has quit his job with the Herald-Sun citing “It was not a good place to work any more.” J.P. Trostle resigned last week as a designer and illustrator at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. As part of that job, he also did editorial cartoons for the newspaper’s Chapel Hill Herald edition. Trostle […]
David Coverly’s Speed Bump has picked up the Wichita Eagle. The Eagle had an opening with the end of Mike Twohy’s That’s Life. Coverly has said of his comic strips that “if life were a movie, these would be the outtakes,” according to the strip’s Web site. The cartoon will run Monday through Thursday in […]
According to Dave Coverly’s web site, he’ll be at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo signing his new book, Just One %$#@ Speed Bump After Another today between 6-9 pm. And if that wasn’t enough, Jef Mallett will also be available to sign is latest Frazz collection “Live From Bryson Elementary“
Editorial cartoonists are banding together on this coming Monday to protest the recent lay-offs in their industry. Members of the AAEC are encouraged to do a cartoon criticizing the layoffs. The cartoons will be posted together on the AAEC website. Editorial cartoonists are joining together for a “Black Ink Monday” protest, E&P has learned. On […]