[H/T - Mike Lynch]

Dill, the sanguine five-year-old in Richard Thompson’s comic strip Cul de Sac, just created his own Facebook page. His personal interests include pulling weeds, growing hairs one at a time, and naptime.
Scott Hilburn’s comic strip The Argyle Sweater is coming up on its first anniversary as a syndicated comic strip and now appears in over [...]

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 [...]

Bill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy who has taken Chad Carpenter’s Tundra to 275 newspapers, will be hosting two 2-day seminars on how to self-syndicate your feature. So save your $500!
Former Ft. Worth Star-Telegram cartoonist Etta Hulme has been “gravely ill,” but seems to be improving. Contact Alan Gardner at The Daily Cartoonist if you’d like [...]

Pat Oliphant was profiled by the Special Broadcasting Service’s program Dateline. Here’s the interview, and here’s the video.
Cartoonist Dave Coverly speaks to the Daily Gazette about his syndicated panel Speedbump (Which is in 250 newspapers!)
Mike Rhode posts some cool Playboy ads by Jack Davis and Charles Saxon.

Will UClick for the iPhone make comic books obsolete? [...]

Cartoonist Mike Lynch posted this video on his blog today, and it’s almost as fascinating watching Charles Shulz, the creator of Peanuts, drawing a comic strip as it is seeing him carpooling children to school.
I agree with Mike that Shultz’s advice that a cartoonist has to professional enough to sit down and deliberately come up [...]

Taylor Jones is the latest cartoonist to join Daryl Cagle’s blogroll. In his first post, he describes a fantastic illustration he did that appears in the Chicago Tribune with Barack Obama surrounded by several past presidents (and you can find out how a pair of shoes were eventually replaced with John Adams).

The New Yorker becomes [...]

With Obama set to take office, David Rees talks about ending his wildly popular and humorously profane comic strip Get Your War On.

Cartoonist Mike Lynch presents scans from the trade magazine American Cartoonist. which provides a fascinating portrait of the freelancer’s life in the ’50s.
John Adcock posted advertisements for Will Eisner’s Spirit comic book [...]