King Features rolls out digital content/ad engine
Hearst-owned King Features has just announced Comics Kingdom, which is, as far as we can tell, a new attempt at a game-changing platform for...
Keith Knight cartoon causes kerfuffle in Jersey
A comic strip by African-American cartoonist Keith Knight that used the N-word has caused an apology at Montclair State University. The episode of...
Steve Canyon on DVD
Via PR, we learn that the 1958 TV series based on Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon comic strip about pilots and adventure is coming out...
ROCKY online
Are Scandinavian comics the next big thing? We're not sure if a big thing is even possible anymore, but they are one of the...
Hitting too close to home
Did this happen to anyone else? We had three different people we know send us a link to yesterday's CUL DE SAC by Richard...
OPUS ends…and you must guess his fate
After a flurry of rumors that he was ending his OPUS comic strip, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has confirmed it is ending on November 2.
WPWG...
“An unexpected legacy”
Steve Bunche got a bunch of old comics collections from a neighbor and found some gems, including several Pogo books and a copy of...
Political corner 9/19
Rob Tornoe on what happens when an editorial cartoon is based on an erroneous story.
Madge the Magician’s Daughter
Everyone else has been linking to the 1907 comic strip Madge the Magician's Daughter by W.O. Wilson -- why shouldn't The Beat?
While enjoying this...
New Garfield book without Garfield announced
Ballantine is going to collect those bleak, nihilistic "Garfield Minus Garfield" strips by Dan Walsh. PR below:
The full-color book format will give readers...
Modan’s “Terminal Patient”
Rutu Modan's new strip at The New York Times has begun. It's called "The Murder of the Terminal Patient." The paper also presents a...
