If you work in the world of syndicated cartooning or publishing, you know the name Dave Astor. COMIC (AND COLUMN) CONFESSIONAL (wit...

The Magic Whistle shows us some of Jack Davis' rejected newspaper strips. After doing the rounds with the syndicates, the civil war-ori...

Allan Holtz who runs the Stripper's Guide blog (a heartfelt lovesong in prose to comic strips) reports on DBR Media , announcing that ...

Above house ad for Gates Features from Cartoonists and Gag Writers' Pro Magazine Apr/May 1962. Just wanted to follow up on last month...

Joey Manley, in the Talking About Comics blog, writes about Web cartoonists and what happens when they get involved with big syndicates or ...

Above: "Marcus Hamilton would tell you not much about him has changed since his youth growing up in Lexington [NC], long before a certa...

Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents a 1943 promotional item from King Features titled Famous Artists & Writers : here is part one a...

Please go and read The Bu$ine$$ of Illu$tration: Feature Syndicates from the always great Today's Inspiration blog by Leif Peng. When...

The great thing about the Web are people like Norm Feuti. He's showing us his entire new comic strip submission titled GILL . He's a...

SPOT THE FROG , a daily newspaper comic strip by Mark Heath, is no more. I was sad to hear this when I knew it was coming. I had heard about...

I get mail. Below are a few of the questions I've gotten recently and my response. Most of these are good solid questions about making a...

Universal Press Syndicate head Lee Salem answers questions about newspaper comic strip syndication for the Wet Ink blog . Dawn Douglass co...

Cartoonist Kieran Meehan has a spanking new site. Meehancartoons.com is up and operating as of this week, just in time for the Reubens (whi...

DBR Media , a syndicate founded by three former King Features Syndicate staffers, has ceased operations, citing overhead as its main hardshi...

From yesterday's CNN Money site comes Pitching your ideas to the big shots . Sure, it's another one of those "here's how yo...

... so writes Joanne Kaufman in today's Wall Street Journal (quoting Janet Grimley, assistant managing editor at the Seattle Post-Intel...

From Sandra Bell-Lundy's Between Friends blog , comes this great entry that talks about success and how does one get started actually b...

So, Scott Adams is trolling the Internet and he sees a cool comic called Basic Instructions . by another Scott, Scott Meyer. Scott Adams wri...

Here's a blast from 1971: the E&P 46th annual Syndicate Directory. Hang on! It's more fun than it sounds. These annual directori...