Beginning January 3, citizens of Washington state can purchase a license plate designed by Adam@home and Red and Rover cartoonist Brian Bassett. Proceeds will benefit state-wide pet spay/neuter programs. Link

Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and editorial board member of the Philadelphia Daily News, will receive our 2005 Media Excellence Award. Signe will inform and entertain us with a slide show of her incisive cartoons, caricature, and commentary. Link

In a follow up story from yesterday, Knight Ridder has been urged to sell itself, but so far the pool of suitors is, well, not pooling. The nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher was effectively put on the block Tuesday, after its largest shareholder urged it to sell itself. But rival newspaper companies and private-equity firms aren’t […]

According to SmartMoney.com, Private Capital Management – Knight Ridder’s largest shareholder, has urged KR to put itself on the auction block. In a letter to Knight Ridder’s board dated Tuesday, PCM Chief Executive Bruce Sherman said a sale should be pursued aggressively, “in light of limited revenue growth across the newspaper industry and the difficulties […]

Cagle has a lengthy posting on his “blog” about how editors view editorial cartoons. There seems to be a natural friction between the “picture people” and the “word people” who are troubled by those powerful pictures. A famously unnamed editor at The New York Times is quoted as saying, “We would never hire an editorial […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has changed the management group that handles administrative services for the association. The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association took over the role as of yesterday. Effective November 1, Nicholson will hand over the reins of the AAEC to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association (PNA). PNA was signed to a 3-year management contract […]

According to Editor and Publisher The Post Dispatch has cut nearly 12% of its news staff through a voluntary buyout. Nearly 12% of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch news and editorial staff has accepted a voluntary buyout that the paper claims will save it up to $7 million a year, according to a story in Tuesday’s […]

Bad news for those who make their living in the newspaper industry. Media Daily News: IT’S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry’s worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren’t looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm’s report on newspaper publishing.

If you’ve not been inundated by the press Aaron McGruder is getting with the soon to launch television version of his comic strip “Boondocks”, the New York Times has a really good profile of McGruder, his strip and the move into television. Since its national debut six years ago, the strip, about two black children […]

The Baltormore Sun has a good article about the state of cartoons that make the jump to the small screen. The synopsis: It’s not so much an animation explosion as it is a continuing accretion of cartoons ? like a growth of colorful kudzu. And much if not most of it is very good indeed, […]

Andy Donato, the Toronto Sun’s cartoonist, was a single digit away from hitting a $54,292,912 lottery jackpot. I’m still laughing about it. That’s because I don’t want to cry,” said Donato, 68. He still walks away with $1,800.

Ron Rogers has been hired by the South Bend Tribune as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. Ron began with us as a free-lancer, drawing about a cartoon a week. Last summer, he joined the news staff. Now he produces three editorial cartoons a week as well as a wave of illustrations that have helped transform […]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has a follow up (free, annoying registration required) to the Mike Luckovich’s editorial cartoon in which he wrote the names of the 2,000 soldies that have died in the Iraq war in the word “WHY”. About a year ago, Luckovich had a similar idea for a cartoon using President Bush’s middle […]

Susan Birch of Salt Lake City won the Lucky Cow’s ?funniest fast-food story? competition. The contest invited readers to submit their funniest fast food experiences. Birch and her husband went to a local fried chicken restaurant to pick up no less than three buckets of fried chicken for their extended family, including their grandkids. Although […]

It was only a matter of time, but it’s now here: cartoons on your ipod. Artists can submit their animation shorts for inclusion.