Ted Rall gave a presentation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the topic of “The Slow-Motion Suicide of the American Empire.” A report of his speach has been posted on the Daily Illini web site. “The purpose of these presentations is mainly to get people to think for themselves,” Rall said. “I want […]
Garfield will be the subject of a new series on Animal Planet: Animal Icons, a new series on Animal Planet (Astro Channel 51), takes an up-close and personal look at the feisty feline who has clawed his way to become the number one comic strip, television star and big screen celebrity. This episode premières on […]
A series of retro t-shirts are being sold to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Peanuts. The new Vintage Peanuts line spotlights Charles Schulz’s beloved characters Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Woodstock and more as they appeared in the 1960s — a time when Schulz and the strip were at the height of their popularity. Once again, […]
Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, will speak today at the University of Oregon on her career in the comics. During the seminar, Eliot plans to explore how the funny pages have evolved over the past 100 years, why there aren?t many women in the comics business and what it takes to be a syndicated […]
James Casciari’s editorial cartoon on Tuesday came with an audio track. Not quite up to Fiore’s standards, but it’s good to shake things up regardless.
Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith talks about the influence of Charles Schulz on his work (scroll down to bottom of page). The article above Bill’s Q&A is a piece on the impact of the Peanuts comic strip.
E&P has a blurp on David Horsey and his winning of the The Population Institute’s Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting. I’m sure he’ll be placing this one next to his 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Link
For those of you in the Winston-Salem area, you can attend the Salem College Center for Women Writers monthy meeting on November 10 and listen to Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette lecture and slide show on his comic strip “Kudzu.” You can also attend a local “Eat, drink, and be literary” festival where Doug […]
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 […]