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Nominees sought for Courage in Editorial Cartooning award
The Cartoonists Rights Network International announced they are accepting nominations for their 2012 CRNI Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning. The Courage Award is given every year to a cartoonist who is in grave danger because of the power and impact of his or her work, or, to a cartoonist who has shown extraordinary courage [...]
Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Robert Ariail honored by SC Arts commission
Former The State editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail has been honored by the The South Carolina Arts Commission with the 2012 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts. The award is given to “recognize outstanding achievement and contributions to the arts in South Carolina” and is the highest award bestowed by the state. Robert has [...]
Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
The future of syndication and cartooning
The Columbia Journalism Review has an interesting article about the future of cartooning. Discussed: The blessing and curse of syndication representation, websites that value cartoons enough to pay decently for them and alternative paths taken by artists in order to make a living. From CJR: Cartoons pass quickly around the web. Most cartoonists I spoke [...]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 9 Comments
Bob Englehart suspended for one week
Hartford Courant editorial cartoonist Bob Englehart has been suspended without pay for a week over a blog post according to Daryl Cagle. As I mentioned yesterday, Bob wrote a critical blog post about the New Hampshire Governor’s education plan and used a poor choice in wording (“losers raise losers”). Both the paper and Bob have [...]
Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 7 Comments
Englehart angers citizens with Losers raise losers comment
The Hartford Courant took down a blog post in which their staff cartoonist Bob Englehart criticized the Governor’s plans for inner city schools by stating that dysfunctional inner-city poor minority families tend to raise dysfunctional inner-city poor minority families. But that wasn’t his choice of words. The offending phrase that is causing the ruckus is, [...]
Posted on: Feb 13, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
KAL returns to the Baltimore Sun
It’s official. The Baltimore Sun has announced that it’s bringing it’s long time editorial cartoonist, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, to their editorial pages starting next week. Unfortunately it’s not a full-time gig – just a weekly cartoon in the Sunday edition. You can see a video that was produced to promote his return on their website. [...]
Posted on: Feb 13, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 4 Comments
NCS Pres. Richmond responds to NYT
Yesterday, the National Cartoonists Society President Tom Richmond entered the fray over The New York Times’ invitation and submission policy for original editorial cartoons. No surprise that Tom takes a position against the spec work request. The Times is arguably the most well-known and prestigious newspaper in the United States. It should be championing and [...]
Posted on: Feb 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
58 editorial cartoonists protest NYT submission policy
As mentioned Tuesday, The New York Times sent out an email to editorial cartoonists announcing The Times was going to start running original editorial cartoons in their Sunday Review. The announcement landed like a rock once cartoonists read submission policy that required them to send finished spec work in every week for a small chance [...]
Posted on: Feb 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 18 Comments
Blaine passes away at age 74
Blaine, The Hamilton Spectator’s editorial cartoonist for 30 years, passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 74. He had retired from the paper in 1993. Blaine was anything but bland. He had a black belt in karate, played guitar and sang, liked wearing cowboy boots and jewellery and was remembered for driving motorcycles [...]
Posted on: Feb 8, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 5 Comments
Editorial cartoonists push back on NYT
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to run an original editorial cartoon in the Sunday The Week in Review starting February 26. At issue is the Times’ offer to pay $250 to the selected cartoonist, but requires all entrants to submit original, [...]
Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 6 Comments
Lynch: Chris Hayes Show didn’t compensate cartoonist
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon to Lian Amaris. A quick tweet to Lian and a response back confirmed that that the cartoon was used without her knowledge and compensation. Mike writes: If someone puts one of my cartoons on their [...]
Posted on: Feb 6, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 4 Comments
Baltimore Sun to hire KAL for weekly cartoon
The Baltimore Brew reports that The Baltimore Sun is in talks with its former editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) to bring him back for a once-a-week cartoon. They contacted KAL for confirmation: “I have been in discussions with The Sun,” he wrote. “If all goes well, I would be starting [in] late February.” Kallaugher said [...]
Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
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