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1. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Hooray!!!

2. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   $30!!! Where do you find ink that cheap???

3. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Ooops. The date the Six Strips begin should read 3/18/24.

4. 5 days ago on Cathy Classics

   Yes. I can’t count the hours I’ve wasted searching for something I had carefully put away for safe keeping.

5. 5 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The problem was the water pressure, Remember that water does not naturally flow uphill! The system got overwhelmed by the amount being used and temporarily didn’t bring water to the fire hydrants. There was plenty of water in the reservoirs.

6. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I worried they’d get rejected (and in fact, phone calls and emails did happen around them, but it was the opposite of my fears. Everyone was SO supportive and in fact seemed relieved that at least one of the cartoonists was speaking up! Turns out we can say a lot more sometimes than people behind the scenes). I worried more newspapers would drop me and I’d lose even more income (and as a newly single Mom going through a divorce, that was far from ideal…)However, after writing them I realized how much worse I would feel if I DIDN’T at least try. I felt I had to say something, for myself and the other women cartoonists who had been dropped. I knew I would be worse off for not following my instincts, that would be worse to live with than any fallout that could come. I took a deep breath, hit a shaky upload button……And hurled a rock at one of the largest newspaper groups in America.But a giant doesn’t feel a pebble. I wish I could tell you that the mistake was corrected; that a human touch was brought in over the grim algorithms that shook the ladies off the page. But worse than my fear that there would be consequences was the slow, quiet sick in the days to come of realizing that nothing would change. And nothing did.However—I continue to write my strip happily. I’m still in enough newspapers and have enough support directly from my readers on Patreon (thank you!!) to pay the bills and keep the lights on. My pen is steadier for knowing I tried. I woke up myself, better than had I woke up under a clouded life sentence of “…what if I had just said something in the moment?” I did say something, and even though nothing moved on the dial, I don’t know what’s yet to come. I don’t know who read the Six Strips and the Washington Post Article and walks around today trying to figure this out for tomorrow. I don’t know who could find all of this down the road. The Six Strips are at 4/3/18

7. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Georgia posted on facebook: As I prepare my submission to the The National Cartoonists Society ‘s Reuben Awards this year, I’m looking over “The Six Strips,” as they came to be called in my files and interviews. At the beginning of 2024, the Gannett newspapers restructured and dropped every woman cartoonist in America. They left in only Canada’s Lynn Johnston, and thank goodness, at least one woman survived the cut! I love ‘For Better or Worse.’ (That strip is one of the reasons why I’m a cartoonist today, it’s forever one of my favorites!)I tried to raise some alarm bells when I noticed a third of my monthly salary drop out and traced back what had happened. My readers made up the difference on Patreon, and I still rely on that to pay the bills today. I’m incredibly lucky to have you all, the BCN readers are amazing. I cannot thank you enough or stress what a difference that makes in me being able to do this! The Daily Cartoonist chimed in early, reporting on what I saw and investigating it further, providing the statistics. Michael Cavna of The Washington Post reported on the story and really tried to drum up support for the cartoonists dropped (I’ll include the link in the comments below.) Musician Janis Ian personally hosted cartoonists on her FB page for followers, trying like heck to shine a light on it all.In the early days before Michael’s article, it felt like no news outlets were covering what was happening. I had reached out to the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, others, and heard nothing back. The daughter of a photojournalist, I felt an overwhelming “someone needs to report on this! People should know what is happening to the funny pages!” feeling… And early one morning it dawned on me:I technically run the tiniest, cutest news station in the country. What better place to report on the funny pages, than directly from inside the funny pages? Straight to people who read them and still love them? I could sneak the news out myself! I sat down to my

8. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Attending elementary school???

9. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m assuming the old printer was from 1989.

10. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Today’s comic perfectly captures the off- days all of us have when we are grumpy, lazy and don’t want to do anything. I’m being serious because of the comments that take it far too seriously seeing it as showing Calvin as unlikeable or as a comment on whatever generation you don’t like. Lighten up and enjoy an amusing exaggeration of when you’re in a rotten mood.