Archive for January, 2009
Afternoon Cartoon News Round-Up
Nicole Hollander talks to the Chicago Tribune about creating her comic strip Sylvia for 30 years.
Syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors slams New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas for one-too-many “Miracle on the Hudson” cartoon references.
The writers at Jezebel didn’t like this cartoon by Belleville Globe Democrat cartoonist Glenn McCoy.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has requested [...]
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Austin-American Statesman Offers Early Retirement Program
The Austin American-Statesman has announced a voluntary early retirement program for employees 55 or older.
Publisher Michael Vivio spoke about the decision in a news release:
“During this time of economic difficulty, businesses are finding ways to operate more efficiently, and we are no different. The early retirement program is strictly voluntary and empowers eligible employees. Programs [...]
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Dilbert Creator Talks About Advertising In His Comic Strips
Dilbert creator Scott Adams sat down with Michael Cavna at the Washington Post’s Comic Riffs blog to discuss, among other things, advertising Dilbertfiles.com directly in his syndicated comic strips:
“I haven’t heard anything directly through United Media — no editors have contacted me or them. One newspaper decided to run an editorial note, paraphrasing that they [...]
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Baltimore Examiner Folding
Apparently, Baltimore isn’t the “City that Reads” as its slogan would suggest.
The Baltimore Examiner newspaper will be closing after several months of looking for a buyer, a spokesman confirmed today to the Baltimore Sun (which remains in business despite the bankruptcy of its parent organization, Tribune Company).
The last issue of the newspaper, which is distributed [...]
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The Inevitable Rise of Internet News, Circa 1981
David Cole, from the San Francisco Examiner:
“This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going [...]
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Morning Cartoon News Round-Up
French cartoonist Maurice Sinet is set to go on trial on charges of anti-Semitism for suggesting Jean Sarkozy, the son of the French president, was converting to Judaism for financial reasons.
Here are the 9 worst Barack Obama editorial cartoons, according to Mother Jones’ The Riff Blog.
Sean Rogers has posted the first part of a series [...]
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Afternoon Cartoon News Round-Up
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff cartoonist Rob Rogers is on assignment in Miami, covering the Super Bowl by blogging with commentary and cartoons.
Today’s Non Sequitur takes on the media’s age of irony.
Rick Tuma, a staff artist for the Chicago Tribune, is behind a new feature showcasing drawings of every president called Presidential Portraits.
Cul de Sac cartoonist Richard [...]
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Village Voice Suspends All Syndicated Cartoons
On his blog, “This Modern World” cartoonist Tom Tomorrow is reporting that a month after laying off columnist Nat Hentoff, Village Voice Media, the owner of The Village Voice and a chain of alt-weeklies across the country, has suspended publication of all its syndicated cartoons.
“This still leaves me with eighty-odd papers, as well as Salon [...]
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Does This Cartoon Make Me Look Fat?
He has been criticized for taking Great Britain from boom to bust and mocked for backing-off from an early general election, but what really gets under British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s skin is being portrayed by cartoonists as fat.
“I met Brown briefly once, and he said: ”You draw me far too fat. I”m not that [...]
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That #$@%!& Cartoonist
A guest cartoon submitted by local cartoonist Dave Horton and published on The News-Press Opinion page on Saturday, Jan. 17, generated nearly 50 emails and numerous phone calls to community conversation editor David Plazas.
“To allow such an abomination to be printed is an example of the quality of your paper and much of the liberal [...]
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