Tom Tomorrow, creator of the syndicated strip This Modern World, on Twitter:
For awhile I thought it might be fun to start sending out tweets every few minutes, about my most banal activities. Brushed my teeth! Took a shit! Checked my email! Sending out a tweet! Except that seems to be pretty [...]

The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper founded in 1859, will close its doors and publish its last issue on Friday, February 27.
“Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges,” Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps Howard, said [...]

Brian Duffy, the former cartoonist at the Des Moines Herald who is currently in a bitter fight with his old newspaper for ownership of his original drawings, has found a new client for his cartoons: the Telegraph Herald.
According to the Herald, Duffy is self-syndicating his Iowa-themed cartoons to other newspapers across the state. His cartoons [...]

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the New York Post’s parent company News Corp, has issued an apology to readers for the controversial cartoon it published last Wednesday that many saw as a racist attack on Barack Obama.
“We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who [...]

Crain’s Cleveland Business asks if you would miss print newspapers if they went exclusively online or out of business.
The New York Times censors the work of Michel Kichna by removing a middle finger, which unfortunately changes the entire meaning of the cartoon. So why buy it?
Are cartoonists now afraid to criticize Obama for fear of [...]

Brian Duffy, the former staff cartoonist for the Des Moines Register who was laid-off after spending 25 years on the front page of the paper, is fighting his former employer to get back his original drawings.
“They have the originals all sitting in my old office back at the Des Moines Register,” Duffy told KCCI [...]

Here is today’s cartoon for Editor & Publisher.
Last Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. labeled the United States “essentially a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations.
I don’t think his intention of a “nuanced, principled and spirited” debate meant protesters, led by an impartial judge in Rev. Al Sharpton, calling for the [...]

More cartoonists have weighed in on the Delonas chimp cartoon that appeared in Wednesday’s New York Post, including Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Mark Streeter at the Savannah Morning News.
Hate that chimp cartoon? You can bid on the Web URL BoycottTheNewYorkPost.com at eBay. [H/T - Mike Lynch]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman thinks Sean [...]

Pat Bagley, a Cagle.com cartoonist and a staffer at the Salt Lake Tribune has been selected the winner of the 2009 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.
The prize is awarded each year by the Foundation for “distinguished examples of original editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous standard set by Herblock .”
Bagley will receive the Prize April [...]

New York City Councilman John Liu says he wants the Secret Service to investigate the controversial New York Post cartoon.
Daryl Cagle talks about the controversial cartoon on his blog.
Cagle.com cartoonist Justin Bilicki has put his thoughts about the controversy into his own cartoon.
So has Wayne Stroot of the Hastings Tribune.
Prior to the Delonas [...]