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Flowing Well Publications has collected the work of Petoskey (Mich.) News-Review Op-Ed columnist Fred Gray in a new book titled "That's Outrageous!"
Alan Gardner's The Daily Cartoonist site has a great feature today providing links to "How I became a syndicated cartoonist" stories by several artists.
On Monday, Tribune Media Services marked the 90th anniversary of America's longest-running serial comic strip, "Gasoline Alley." Since 1918, the strip has chronicled the adventures of the extended Wallet family and their small-town garage for which the comic is named.
Michael Cavna at Washingtonpost.com's Comic Riffs takes on the issue of cutting political cartoonist jobs, asking in a posting today "Just how much is a political cartoonist worth?"
Cartoonist Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner has been awarded the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning, the National Press Foundation announced.
Washington Post syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne, speaking at Allegheny College's Ford Chapel in Pennsylvania this week, remarked to those in attendance that the election of Barack Obama marks the beginning of a fundamental shift toward the political left -- and, in a very real way, the end of an era.
Michael Cavna's "Comic Riffs" blog at The Washington Post's Web Site has an interview with Dave Gibbons, the illustrator behind "Watchmen," one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, and which will finally be brought to the big screen next year.
United Media has announced it is offering its annual "Peanuts" Christmas Countdown package to its subscribers at no charge. The package runs through the shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Keith Knight, author of the comic series "The K Chronicles," visited the University of Arizona Wednesday night and spoke about the now-infamous cartoon to a group of some 100 students and community members in the school?s Student Union Memorial Center.
Mark Tatulli's "Heart of the City" strip will celebrate its 10th anniversary with Universal Press Syndicate this Saturday, Nov. 22.
Universal Press Syndicate and PAWS, Inc. are offering the annual "Garfield Christmas Countdown" for the 2008 holiday season, to "Garfield" client newspapers at no additional cost.
Michael Cavna's "Comic Riffs" blog at The Washington Post's Web site has culled the many political cartoons based on President-Elect Barack Obama's recent White House visit with President Bush, and narowed the field to five favorites.
Richard Thompson, cartoonist of "Cul de Sac," has an illustration of President-elect Barack Obama appearing in this week's issue of The New Yorker magazine. A smiling, bespectacled Barack Obama, in a pose reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt, is the illustration accompanying the Nov. 17 New Yorker article titled "The New Liberalism."
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