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Gustavo Arellano, who writes the nationally syndicated ?Ask a Mexican? column, has been named managing editor of the OC Weekly.
Beetle Bailey is slouching toward retirement age, but the lazy Army private won't be getting rest anytime soon from his tour of duty on newspaper comics pages. The indolent wise guy, whose popularity soared when he enlisted during the Korean War, turns 60 on Saturday.
Award-winning, nationally syndicated cartoonist Mallett, who creates the comic strip ?Frazz? for United Media, will participate in the Lifetime Chicago Triathlon Triple Challenge and will meet fans and fellow triathletes at two autographing events. The Triple Challenge features the Fleet Feet Sports Supersprint Triathlon on Saturday and the Sprint and International-distance races on Sunday.
America?s new director of national intelligence, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, has his work cut out for him in unifying all of the United States? intelligence-gathering agencies ? and on top of that, he already has at least one editorial cartoonist pretty steamed at him.
Monday saw the tail-wagging debut of ?Today?s Dogg,? a new comic by cartoonist Guy Gilchrist. Ideal for pet lovers, ?Today?s Dogg? is a daily single-panel comic showcasing pooch antics, with the occasional cat or human cameo.
James J. Kilpatrick, who rose from cub reporter to become one of the South's most prominent newspaper editors and the nation's most widely syndicated political columnist, has died. He was 89.
Cathy Guisewite will end her long-running, widely published "Cathy" comic strip in October, Universal Uclick has announced. The syndicate said the final daily strip will run Oct. 2, with the final Sunday strip running the next day. Guisewite looks to spend more time with family and pursue other creative activities. The character, who has run since 1976, grew out of drawings Guisewite sent her mother, who encouraged her to create a comic strip.
The Evansville African American Museum today opens ?The Long March,? a traveling exhibition focusing on civil rights struggles in the United States that features 20 panels of cartoons, text and photographs about the work of famed Washington Post political cartoonist Herb Block.
John Callahan, a Portland, Ore., cartoonist and musician, has died at age 59. Callahan was best known for cartoons that stepped beyond the boundaries of political correctness and have appeared in nearly 100 newspapers and magazines.
The editorial cartoonist has become something of an endangered species these days, but one newspaper in South Carolina is bucking the industry trend of shedding its cartoonists and actually adding cartoons to its offerings.
Perhaps he's just got a thing for orange cats who like lasagna.
?Arlo & Janis,? the comic strip that began as the chronicle of a Baby Boomer couple and its young family, turns 25 on Thursday July 29. To mark the occasion, writer and artist Jimmy Johnson is re-running some vintage strips during the week in print and online, with commentary included at his Web site.
The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill has been a target of editorial cartoonists for weeks now, but San Diego Union-Tribune/Creators Syndicate Editorial Cartoonist Steve Breen has taken his artistic criticism of the subject a step further. Breen has created five cartoons painted with actual oil from the spill.