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Scott Stantis has a very sweet and succinct piece up on Dick Locher announcing his retirement from political cartooning. Locher left his gig doing art for the Dick Tracy strip in 2011. Stantis notes that Locher was an accidental political cartoonist, securing the gig in his early forties after years of work assisting Chester Gould on Tracy. He won a Pulitzer in 1983, ten years into what became a distinguished 40 years in that business, now much faded in terms of number of cartoonists and political pull from even those days. Mr. Locher is a very well-liked man, and I imagine everyone wishes him well in whatever he'd like to do with the extra time freed up by leaving this gig. You can read his political cartoons work here.

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I'm not sure I have this all the way right, mostly because it's hard enough to track people being really strident and stupid in one's native language. But I guess an exhibition of comics art in Belgium contained a page from L'Enfant penchée by Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters, and that this page was censored because it contained French-language text, drawing the ire of a separatist group that would prefer everything be in Flemish. This then caused Kamagurka to withdraw his work in solidarity, as well as a lot of discussion over whether this was right, who owned the art in question, and the nature of comics art in the first place. It seemed pretty interesting to me even if I'm not grasping the particulars -- maybe worth a translated read for you, or a read en Francais if you're able.

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By Tom Spurgeon

* everyone's favorite cartoonist David Lasky is trying to sell some art to raise the funds to go to San Diego and attend the Eisner Awards ceremony where his Carter Family book is nominated. No nicer man than that David Lasky, and his art looks pretty great, too. If nothing else, you might drop $16 and get three issues of Boom Boom -- that's almost what a non-rare comic book costs today, and they're pretty much all terrible.

* Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey Wells have a kickstarter going for the next Skin Horse print book; they've already doubled their initial goal.

* the writer Greg Rucka talks about recent crowd-funding efforts and the phenomenon in general.

* that veteran on-line effort Jerk City has enjoyed a successful crowd-funding effort here.

* finally: Rob Liefeld, crowd-funder.