Ahhhh Facebook, making the world smaller one day at a time. Featured are Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle, Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen, John Cole of the Times-Tribune, Mike Lester of the Rome Tribune, Cagle.com caricaturist Taylor Jones, Clay Jones of the Free Lance-Star, and freelance MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond.

Longtime Austin-American Statesman cartoonist Ben Sargent has opted to take a “pretty generous buyout.”
Rome Tribune cartoonist Mike Lester responds to reader comments about his controversial Obama/Kool-Aid cartoon.
United Media’s syndication unit and licensing businesses jumped 36% in the fourth quarter of 2008, attributed to the decision by the ABC television network to air 13 Peanuts specials [...]

Rome Tribune cartoon Mike Lester’s controversial cartoon featuring Jim Jones massacre victims around the Obama Kool-Aid has gotten a great deal of feedback on Daryl Cagle’s blog.
Nancy co-cartoonist Guy Gilchrist has announced that he’s closing his private art school, Guy Gilchrist’s Cartoonist’s Academy.
Dean Trippe and Evan Bryce have launched a new webcomic about Barack Obama [...]

Why, wasting time on Facebook of course!

On her blog The Beat, Heidi MacDonald posted part 2 of her annual year-end survey about the comics industry, and Daily Cross Hatch editor Brian Heater made some salient points about editorial cartoonists.
“I wish I could say that, in light of the fact that we had arguably the most important presidential election on our collective [...]