Can’t get your daily Dilbert fix? You can now get Scott Adam’s comic strip on your mobile phone. “Dilbert is a pop culture icon, and we are excited to offer this great new service to Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Web 2.0 customers,” said Adam Lavine, Chief Executive Officer of FunMail, Inc. “We are very pleased to […]
The Daily Cartoonist has been live for about a month now and I wanted to outline the next steps for this blog for the few visitors/subscribers. I haven’t advertised or marketed the blog as it is still the development phase, but I am seeing some traffic trickling in. Right now, this blog is in what […]
For those who are RSS subscribers to the Daily Cartoonist (all 5 of you), I’ve changed the URL to the RSS feed. I’ll be using Feedburner to monitor the feed’s usage. Please update your subscription. For most rss readers and browsers, simply clicking on the link below and the feed will be added to your […]
The seemingly unrelated stories of Michael Ramirez being let go from the LA Times and KAL taking a buyout at the Sun are connected. According to Yahoo News and The Chicago Tribune, Tribune Co is slashing jobs across most of its papers. This is probably even connected to why Jeff MacNelly’s position at the Chicago […]
From E&P: While the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ latest FAS-FAX numbers showed a 2.6% decline in daily paid circulation for U.S. newspapers, Nielsen//NetRatings reports that newspaper Web sites grew 11% year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, comprising 26% of the active U.S. Internet population. Not good. Unless your name is Mike Fiore.
State News editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey had citizens protesting outside the newspaper offices over a cartoon about U.S. torture camps. The cartoon, by State News cartoonist Mike Ramsey, featured a World War II veteran saying “I liberated a torture camp back in ’45” to a current soldier. The soldier, shown holding a bloody baseball bat […]
I posted earlier regarding the Sun’s buyout offer, but was unable to find any reports whether KAL’s position was in jeapardy. E&P reports that KAL is considering taking the buyout. The Tribune Co. has asked The Sun to once again seek staff buyouts in various departments. “I have been offered a buyout like everyone else […]
A story in E&P is reporting that a libel suit against “Get Fuzzy” cartoonist Darby Conley has reached settlement. From E&P: Bob Lobel filed the libel suit this spring after the May 13 “Get Fuzzy” strip — by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Darby Conley — showed Satchel the dog watching Lobel on TV and asking: “Is this […]
While this blog’s focus is on professional cartoonists, I ran across a posting on the toontalk bulletin board. Lee Nordling, author of Your Career in the Comics will be directing a four day seminar for unsyndicated cartoonists to help them take their creation to a syndicated level. My goal with this seminar is to work […]
A day long cartooning class will be offered in Hingham Massachusetts by John Zaccone. Zaccone will touch upon the three major cartoon formats ? the political cartoon, the single panel cartoon, and the comic strip. But in a certain significant sense, he won?t do it alone. As students explore the process of creating a professional […]
The Park Record (Park City Utah) has announced two book signings with editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley (Salt Lake Tribune). His new book is titled “Curious George goes to war”. Bagley’s book follows George, a monkey and the President, who, at the urging of The Man, his overseer, launches a war against Saddam Hussein. Pat’s book […]
While I think Michael Ramirez and David Simpson are having a bad week, at least they don’t have to worry about being physically attacked. Nov 14, Colombo: Police suspect members of the JVP in the attack on well-known cartoonist Dasa Hapuwalana. Hapuwalana, a cartoonist who works for the Sinhala daily Lankadeepa, was attacked in his […]
E&P has a story about the problems some papers had pulling an out of date Doonesbury strip about the former Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Previously, Universal Press Syndicate pulled Garry Trudeau’s daily strips about Miers that were scheduled to run the week of Oct. 31 (E&P Online, Oct. 27). That sequence — which humorously […]
Silicon Valley Watcher has a story about a question about what happens if new media (Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, Ebay) kills off old media before a stable business model has blossomed. It is Silicon Valley’s top companies, such as Google, Yahoo and Ebay, that are devastating the old media business models. But the new media business […]
A few stories across the U.S. on newspapers cutting staff to keep competitive (read: maintain profit margins). San Jose Mercury News Avoids Layoffs As It Cuts 52 Newsroom Jobs The Sun to Offer Buyouts to 75 Employees Methinks this might not be the best time to send in a resume and portfolio at these papers.