At the end of Black Ink Monday – “a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists,” one must ask how successful was the organization’s stand? My guess? It wasn’t. Yes, scores of cartoonists “participated,” but a quick look at cagle.com or comics.com and I didn’t see that any of the protest ‘toons were […]

E&P is reporting that the Herb Block Foundation is waiving the $50 entry fee for the $10k Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. The waiver is a token of support to the editorial cartooning community. “It’s a small gesture, but it’s something we thought we ought to do,” HBF President Frank Swoboda told E&P Monday. “It’s […]

Perhaps ol’ Knight Ridder is an attractive buy after all. Two major newspaper companies — Gannett and McClatchy — and a handful of private equity firms have expressed interest in buying San Jose-based Knight Ridder, raising the chances that the nation’s second-largest newspaper group could be sold sometime next year.

The AAEC website has a round up of all the editorial cartoons protesting the decline of editorial cartoonists in the U.S. – especially those inflicted by the Tribune Company. Take a moment and visit the site. There are 99 cartoons at the time of this writing. They also provided an email address to Gary Weitman, […]

TV Squad has a short blip about the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show that ran on Saturday morning television back in the early 80’s. Also mentioned is Garfield and Friends that soon followed. Other than the fact that The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was sandwiched among more thrilling and kinetic animated programming, trying […]

An indoor amusement park that has been using the name “Camp Snoopy” will soon be losing the rights to use the name. The megamall lost the rights to the comic-strip characters this spring and is still trying to reach a new agreement with the syndicate that controls the creations of the late Charles Schulz. Camp […]

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly mentioned editorial cartoonists Mike Thompson (Detriot News) in his Talking Points Memo segment recently. O’Reilly used a Thompson cartoon that ran in USA Today to decry the mocking of conservatives. “Take a look at this cartoon [3rd one down] in USA Today. which has been drifting left over the last years. […]

There is a nice article in the Maine Today about Wiley Miller and his connection to the state of Maine, how it creeps into his strip, and how the Maine Sunday Telegram is now finally running his work. Make that 701 subscribers now. The Maine-based storyline is one of the “comic strips within a comic […]

Today is Black Ink Monday and yesterday a couple of columnists wrote about the upcoming event. Ted Vaden of the News & Observer talks about Dwane Powell’s work for their paper and the decline of the editorial cartoonist population in the U.S. Their numbers seem to dwindle daily. Last week, prize-winning cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher […]

I missed this story which ran on nj.com (New Jersey) about Patrick McDonnell’s new book “The Gift of Nothing”. The article also discusses Patrick’s attempt to keep life in the slow lane. “To tell you the truth,” he chuckled, “I don’t get out much anyway. A cartoonist’s life is like a monk’s life, very solitary. […]

Boston’s NPR station has an audio interview with cartoonist Chris Ware who is one of the cartoonists for the New York Time’s comic section. They talk about his new collection called “The Acme Novelty Library (Acme Novelty Library)“

Remember the cartoon (quicktime, windows media player) where the Smurfs were carpet bombed during a Unicef commercial in Belgium to draw attention to the plight of children in the Sudan and Congo? The New York Times has a brief story on why they used cartoons in that commercial (not to mention its affect on fund […]

Gannett CEO Craig Dubow says that Gannett has had record revenues for 2005 and that they are taking a ‘hard look’ to acquiring Knight Ridder. But the first question for Craig Dubow, Gannett’s president and CEO, following the presentation concerned the company’s interest in acquiring suddenly up for grabs Knight Ridder. Dubow answered: “We are […]

Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite will serve on the Board of Judges for Talbots annual Women?s Scholarship Program, a fund that annually awards $100,000 in college scholarships to women seeking a bachelor?s or associate?s degree later in life. ?Cathy? appears in about 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In 2005, a major event took place in the comic strip […]

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun, talks to E&P about the buyout he didn’t intend to take. But then Kallaugher heard that The Sun’s publisher had discussed eliminating the cartoonist slot entirely to save money. “Rather than wait for the ax to drop on my position at The Sun, I opted for […]