And now this late breaking news...

Hello there again. This is the newest feature on the DCR, at least until you see the other new thing. Can you guess what it is? Wrong! Good try though. It's the news! No, not the nightly news with Katie Couric, it's comic strip news. That's right comic strips have their own news site. Mostly it's not that interesting, but I'm here to let you know what is, so let's get started.

This from 1/7/09:
Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters is being sued by the The Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers for his 1/2/09 cartoon about there being crime, as well as coffee, in Colombia. Wow. Really? And it's not for a hill of coffee beans either, they want $20 million for damage to their intellectual heritage. I can't say that it shouldn't offend them a little bit, but I think they might be overreacting. I guess the part that offends them is the whole grinding people in with the coffee thing. Peters says that it was inspired by the Pringles inventor that apparently had his ashes buried in a Pringles can. I can't image that this will hold up in court, and we'll bring you the rest of the story as it becomes known to everyone else first.

This from 1/7/09:
Popeye, the beloved(I think beloved, maybe not)sailor is now public domain in Europe. Apparently their copyright laws only give 70 years after the creators death and not 95 like the U.S. does. It doesn't really matter thought since the image is still owned by some giant corporation. If you live in Europe feel free to write that Popeye novel that you've been writing, now you can publish it without anyone getting in your face for breaking international copyright law. If you live in the U.S. however, you'll need to hold on for another 25 years.

These stories appear from the Daily Cartoonist.

Well, that's the most interesting news from this past week that I could scour up for you. With any luck there'll be at least one interesting thing a week to tell you about, if not I guess I'll tell you about some boring crap. With that I say "Good night and remember to tip your barista's."