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.
Art News Online has a lengthy article regarding such a topic.
One look at Cagle’s listings of editorial cartoons on the Rosa Parks passing and you’d think every cartoonist walked into the office, opened their bag o’ cliches and left the office early.
I’m a bit late reporting this one, but Michael Jantz has pulled the plug on The Norm comic book. August 2005: Issue 10, this issue, will be the last of The Norm Magazine published by The Norm.com Publishing. Our original intent was more ‘marketing plan’ than ‘publishing plan’, to put evidence in the hands of […]
Garry Trudeau had to pull a weeks worth of Harriet Miers strips when the Supreme Court nominee un-nomineed herself this week.
As reported here earlier, There are complaints that there will not be enough The Complete Calvin and Hobbes books for the holiday rush. Editor and Publisher has printed a retort by non-other-than Andrews McMeel’s CEO Thomas Thornton. “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes”‘ first three weeks on sale show units sold of 34,329, per Neilsen Bookscan […]
California State Treasurer Phil Angelides has released an online flash cartoon called “Arnold’s Neighborhood.” It rips on Schwarzenegger’s affiliation with the GOP. The actual flash cartoon looks like it was done by Jib Jab – the animators behind the popular “This Land is Your Land” flash cartoon during the 2004 presidential election.