This week’s Mutts storyline takes a political tone as creator Patrick McDonnell campaigns in favor of California’s Proposition 2, which is aimed at curbing factory farm abuses. Mutts, found in 700+ newspapers in 20 countries, is read by four million Californians no doubt distracted more by presidential politics than the proposition. Michael Markarian spoke with…
Client newspapers of Newspaper Enterprise Association will be treated to a special 16-strip, The Search for Santa. According to Daily Cartoonist, the strip is effectively a spin-off from Luann by Greg Evans. NEA has been producing annual Christmas strips for their papers since 1937 and this year’s is a reprise to one Evans created previously. …
Opus will end its run as Sunday-only comic strip on November 2, according to a release from the Washington Post Writers Group.Berkeley Breathed in a press release, indicated, “With the crisis in Wall Street and Washington, I’m suspending my comic strip to assist the nation. The best way I can help is to leave politics…
Steve Canyon is a classic comic strip hero, created by Milton Caniff. Since his debut in 1947, the hero was a mainstay until Caniff’s death and the strip’s cancellation in 1988. Interestingly, there was little merchandising done with the character through the years with the notable exception of being part of the personas to be…
Rob Cabrera, best known as the author of United Media-syndicated comic Silo Roberts has started a new independent strip inspired by this year’s presidential campaign. Super Tuesday plays the standard political-cartoon style and focuses specifically on Barak Obama and John McCain. Updates are expected to vary in frequency as events develop on the campaign trail….
Don Wilder the writer for the Crock comic strip, died this morning at age 74 reports Editor & Publisher. According to King Features Syndicate, which distributes Crock to more than 200 newspapers, Wilder was also drawing and went on to get his bachelor’s degree from East Tennessee State University. The commercial artist began work as…
What do you do after winding down your comic strip, which you have produced daily since 1979? You go to Peru to act as an interpreter, of course. Lynn Johnston, whose For Better or For Worse ended on August 31, told the Peterborough Examiner that she is off to South America. "I’m on my way…
Clear Blue Water, the syndicated comic strip from Karen Montague-Reyes will switch from newspaper syndication via Universal Press Syndicate to a web-only model as of September 28. The strip began in 2004 and features the semi-autobiographical adventures of Eve Merriweather-Torres and her husband, Manny. The chatty strip has covered every top usually shunned by most…
Between Friends, an internationally syndicated comic strip, will tackle a spousal abuse storyline between now and November. The strip, conceived in 1994 by Canadian cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy, is carried in 140 papers via King Features Syndicate. The strip, according to its website, is a contemporary comic strip that celebrates the essence and angst of three…
Although he arrived first in 1973, Heathcliff was pretty quickly eclipsed as king of the cartoon cats by Garfield, who arrived just five years later. Created by George Gately, the strip was filled with gentle humor and was quickly added to papers turning him into a quiet star. The strip can be found in over…
Zits is one of the most consistently entertaining comic strips running today and a large reason behind the strip’s success is the varied supporting cast. The strip, introduced in 1997 and produced by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, has focused on 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, his loving but seemingly clueless parents, and his friends. Among them…
Just shy of its 29th anniversary, today Lynn Johnston completes her run on For Better or For Worse. The comic strip, though, isn’t going away nor is it exactly going into reruns. Instead, Johnston is going back to the beginning, when the strip debuted on September 9, 1979 and is cleaning up her art and…
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