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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
Nast won’t be in New Jersey Hall of Fame
The Star-Ledger is reporting that for a third straight year, the legendary Thomas Nast will not be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame after a few politicians and the Ancient Order of the Hibernians publicly objected to Nast’s anti-Irish and anti-Catholic views of his day. From the Star-Ledger: The main reason Nast went [...]
Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Chris Britt laid off from State Journal-Register
Illinois Times is reporting that Chris Britt has been let go from his staff editorial cartoonist job at the State Journal-Register. “I was just informed,” Britt said. Britt, who began his career as an editorial cartoonist in 1990 and joined the State Journal-Register staff nine years later, said he wasn’t sure whether he was given [...]
Posted on: Jan 26, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 16 Comments
Jeff Hook honored with Order of Australia
Former Herald Sun cartoonist Geoffrey “Jeff” Hook will be honored with a Medal of the Order of Australia for outstanding achievement and service. From the Herald Sun: But he believes the honour recognises all of Australia’s cartoonists for their efforts in shaping the political and news landscape of Australia. “It’s a tribute to the influence [...]
Posted on: Jan 25, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Profiled: China’s disruptive cartoonist Remon Wang
CNN profiles Remon Wang, a Chinese editorial cartoonist, who’s putting his work out on the internet and gaining a following, even at the risk of Chinese sensors. Sometimes my cartoons give me a sense of accomplishment,” he said. “But what I really want is to wake up my fellow countrymen by injecting a sense of [...]
Posted on: Jan 24, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Thomas Nast was a product of his time
Tom Deignan writes a guest column in the NJ Star-Ledger stating that Thomas Nast’s anti-Catholicism was a view of the times. Nast is nominated for the New Jersey Hall of Fame, but has come under heavy criticism due to his anti-Catholic, anti-Irish views. The truly shocking thing about Nast’s negative depictions of Catholics, as well [...]
Posted on: Jan 24, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
How are Muslim women depicted in western cartoons?
Over on Patheos, an author that goes by Eren, has written a piece looking at how American cartoonists typically depict Muslim women in cartoons: When it comes to Muslim women as represented in political cartoons catered to non-Muslim Western audiences, a few prevalent themes can be easily identified. I tend to collect political cartoons of [...]
Posted on: Jan 20, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Zunar to enjoy his first solo exhibit. In London
Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as the Malaysian cartoonist Zunar, will hold his first solo exhibit but it won’t be in his native country where he has been arrested and censored by the Malaysian government. His first exhibit will be in London. Mr. Zulkiflee has been detained, has had his office raided and books banned, [...]
Posted on: Jan 19, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Golden age of editorial cartooning is dead
A report from the The Herb Block Foundation declares the “golden age of editorial cartooning is dead.” A couple dour quotes from the report: The Golden Age for editorial cartoonists at the nation’s newspapers is over. At the start of the 20th century, there were approximately 2,000 editorial cartoonists employed by newspapers in the United [...]
Posted on: Jan 19, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
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