James O. Goldsborough, a former columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune makes a claim that editorial cartoonist Steve Breen is living “under daily censorship.” When I left, Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist, lived under daily censorship. It was not unusual for Breen’s best cartoons, which are syndicated, to run in newspapers around the country […]

Creators Syndicate has picked up on a new feature from John Sherffius, former editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The feature “Sam and Me” is about a grandfather helping raise his grand-daughter. Link to story

Editor and Publisher is reporting that New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss has launched a new comic panel syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The description of the panel from TMS’s web site reads: Each panel is a sharp and smart look at the paradoxes of life ranging from lust and love to misfortune and bitterness. Bliss […]

Current Events magazine is sponsoring an editorial cartoon contest.. The prize is only $50, so it probably isn’t a contest for professional editorial cartoonists. Perhaps a hungry college cartoonist can take a swing at it. Cartoon must by post marked by October 28.

For those not willing to shell out the $150 for “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” there is an interesting book review that reveals more about the pre-syndication and early syndication of Calvin and Hobbes.

Gov. Bush has been named Steve Rushing to the Hernando County’s 5th Judicial Circuit judge. While his name probably isn’t known inside ‘toonist circles, this lawyer has published over 300 cartoons. He started drawing “Legal Insanity” during law school. He has had more than 300 published, he said, and three different books of them. They […]

A childrens exhibit of Peanuts can be had at the EdVenture museum in Columbia South Caroline. From the museums web site: Don’t miss EdVenture’s newest blockbuster traveling exhibit, ?Good Grief!? Based upon the cartoons of the late Charles Schulz, ?Good Grief!? uses the trials and tribulations of Charlie Brown and the PEANUTS gang to help […]

The award winning play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead will get a new run opening on December 15. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is written by Bert V. Royal. The take-off on the Charles Schulz comic strip “Peanuts” follows the original gang a decade later as their beloved beagle […]

The Daily Californian ran a story about a lawsuit filed by Jeanne Caldwell against UC Berkeley because their web site has a section that asserts that “most religious denominations find no conflict between their religious doctrine and evolutionary theory…” The section also included a cartoon: The section also includes a cartoon of a priest holding […]

Bad news for Boston Garfield fans. The Boston Globe has dropped the Sunday Garfield feature. This action comes a month after dropping the daily feature. It’s at least the third major-market newspaper to cancel Jim Davis’ cat comic in 2005. The other two were The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. (E&P Online, Oct. 2) and the […]

MarketWatch did a pretty lengthy article on The cartoon bank (free registration required) a creation of Bob Mankoff back in 1991. In a stroke of genius, he created the cartoon bank and later sold it to the New Yorker. The bank has over 85,000 cartoons that it licenses out to be published in books, magazines, […]

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is hosting an exhibit of 47 works of cartoon art that were part of a traveling exhibit to help sell war bonds. The artists were legendary Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, Peter Arno, Mary Stewart and Sid Hoff. Their cartoons are variously violent, patriotic, frightening and funny, lampooning Hitler, […]

An editorial cartoon created by Andy Marlette, nephew to editorial cartoon Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette, has caused quite a racial fire storm at the University of Florida. The cartoon, published mid-September, is still provoking national attention. Gainsville.com has a write up on the aftermath first published on Sept. 19. The young Marlette stands behind […]

National Review magazine is celebrating 50 years and in an interview Priscilla Buckley admits that one of her biggest mistakes at the magazine was not hiring Jeff MacNelly. Deciding with Bill that the great Jeff MacNelly, then the cartoonist for the Richman News-Leader was not sophisticated enough for National Review. Five years later, when we […]

I’m a day late reporting this one, but legendary editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad’s work will be featured in an exhibit called “Conrad & the Presidents.” The exhibit will feature more than four dozen cartoons on the subject of the American presidency. From the press release: Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Conrad has skewered 11 presidents – […]