Industry news for the professional cartoonist
From the LA Times comes a story that the LA Daily News has laid off the paper’s publisher and 20 others. The Daily News is home to editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor who reports that his job has not been directly affected. Patrick does mention that the ousted publisher has been a great advocate of his work and as he puts it: “championed my work and stuck up for me when I was under fire.”Â
Last week I mentioned that Dinette Set creator Julie Larson had a new book and was out and about doing book signings and speaking events in conjunction with the release of her book. Julie has written in to give me links to photos of the book signing taken the Peoria Journal-Star. Additionally there are other book signings planned. See below.
Tank McNamara creators Jeff Millar (writer) and Bill Hinds (artist) will be awarded a special recognition for visual journalism by The Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University and the Northeastern University School of Journalism on December 4th.
According to E&P, Guy Gilchrist, co-creator of Nancy has started a program called “Cartoonists to Go” which sends professional cartoonists to parties, business gatherings, etc to do portraits and caricatures, cartooning lessons, and temporary tattoos.
From the ComicsDC blog comes news that the Washington Post has returned Cory Thomas‘ Watch Your Head to replace Boondocks.
Farley and Elderbeerries creator Phil Frank will be the recipient the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce’s Lifetime Achievement Award this Friday. The award is given to an individual for exemplary service to the community.