With a May 19 release date, Michael Fry and T. Lewis’s movie adaptation of their strip ‘Over the Hedge’ will be going up against stiff competition as “The Da Vinci Code” opens that same weekend. “The Da Vinci Code” is starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Regarding opening up against Da Vinci Code: […]

Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnatti Enquirer and cartoonist for Zits, has started a blog. The “BorgBlog” as it is titled contains images taken from his sketchbook. Ten years into my professional career, a writer friend introduced me to a different concept of an artist?s sketchbook. In her journal she kept the most random […]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel becomes the third major newspaper to run with TokyoPop a manga stlye comic strip. They’re the characters in a comic strip – TokyoPop – that will run Sundays starting Jan. 8 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It will alternate between “Peach Fuzz,” running for 24 straight weeks, and “Van Von Hunter,” […]

I mentioned this earlier back in December, but the NYT has a much lengthier posting (scroll down) about original MAD magazine artwork up on the auction block. The last original artwork from the archives of MAD Magazine is to be auctioned in 2006, starting with a Jan. 21 sale at Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers in […]

Dana Summer’s feature “Bound & Gagged” has replaced “Calvin and Hobbes” on the funny pages at the The Jackson Citizen Patriot (Michigan). The newspaper surveyed readers about three comics — Bliss, The Flying McCoys, and Bound & Gagged — and the results were mixed, with no clear winner across age categories. But Bound & Gagged […]

Baby Blues will be on a trial run at the Montreal Gazette. If you like Baby Blues, you’ll probably see it assume a place in our comics lineup, which is already one of the most comprehensive in Canada. At the end of the test period, we’ll put another strip in that bottom right-hand corner of […]

Oh, that we always received such respect. Clearly, the comics are a powerful medium for talking about the human experience. They should be required reading for painters who have forgotten that storytelling matters. While painters have been turning art inside out, manufacturing one style after another, Johnston has worked the old-fashioned way, with good drawing […]

FYI, I won’t be updating the Daily Cartoonist over the New Years holiday weekend. Be safe and enjoy the weekend. Alan Gardner Daily Cartoonist Editor

Daryl Cagle will be on MSNBC on January 1. From his “blog”: Our readers will have a rare opportunity to see my live, smiling face on MSNBC television, on Sunday January 1st, at about 10:45am Eastern, 7:45am Pacific. It is your chance to say,”THAT’S what Cagle looks like? I’d have never guessed!”

Kathryn LeMieux, who is also one of the Six Chicks collaborators, is ending her “Feral West” weekly cartoon that has run in the Pt. Reyes Light Newspaper for the last 11 years has run its course. The last strip ran Friday. After more than 11 years in The Light, this week Tomales cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux?s […]

From E&P: In the “Best Print Comic Strip” category, winners were “This Modern World” by the self-syndicated Tom Tomorrow (About.com’s choice) and “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate (“People’s Pick”). Winners for “Best Web Cartoons” were Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” (About.com’s choice) and Charles Fincher’s “The Illustrated Daily Scribble” (“People’s Pick”).

The New York Times has a lengthy article about the new comic strip “Retail” that debuts tomorrow in about 20 papers. His aim for the comic strip, which will be published beginning tomorrow, is to do for the mall what “Dilbert” did for the office, revealing the dysfunctional world of bickering employees, spineless managers and […]

With the end of Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, The Philadelphia Inquirer has picked up Cathy both as a daily and Sunday feature. We received your calls and e-mails, and we’ve listened. Beginning Sunday, the humor and true-to-life adventures of Cathy return to our comics pages seven days a week. And on Jan. 8, we […]

I sat on this story for a while hoping to get more details. Since Peter Zale’s creation is silently closing down, I’ll post what I do know. Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet will no longer be syndicated after Christmas 2005. Peter’s web site say’s he’s on sabbatical, but an article in the Salt Lake Tribune […]

A small Indiana weekly, Brown County Democrat, has won a couple of awards including editorial cartoonist Irene Joslin who took second place in editorial cartooning. The Democrat?s editorial cartoonist, Irene Joslin, received second-place accolades among all non-daily newspapers for her work, which the judges said were ?well-crafted cartoons with a point to make. Beautifully drawn!?