In what may set the record for a decision ever to remain unmade, The Olympian is now running Greg Evan’s Luann in trial mode as they seek to find a “suitable” replacement for Bill Amend’s Fox Trot which retired back in January. Other strips that have been evaluated: Frazz, Mutts, Pearls Before Swine, 9 Chickweed […]
Mark Pett’s Lucky Cow strip made an appearance in Sunday’s Paul Gilligan’s Pooche Café.
Two attendees of this year’s AAEC convention in D.C. have posted their photos. Mike Rhode of ComicsDC blog has posted photos of the Cartoonapolooza. Jeff Parker of Florida Today has posted his photos.
The AAEC wrapped up it’s annual convention over the weekend. Here is a list of stories about the going’s on:Dana Priest, the journalist that broke the story on the Walter Reed hospital deplorable conditions spoke to editorial cartoonists praising them for putting “the punctuation mark on the sentences we constructed.“Nick Anderson will become president of […]
I’m looking for a few cartoonists (or comic aficionados) to volunteer submitting stories or discussion topics to the blog on July 13th through 18th whilst I’m vacationing in Seattle. I’m not expecting volunteers to submit something everyday, but at least a couple of stories over those days would be fine. Here’s what you can do. […]
E&P editor Dave Astor is attending the AAEC convention in Washington D.C. and has filed a report about the session on the future of the editorial cartooning profession. His article focuses on things editorial cartoonists can do to halt the declining numbers of editorial cartoonists positions including: speaking about the importance of their profession at […]
For those of us unable to attend this year’s AAEC convention in WAshington D.C., C-SPAN is covering some of the sessions. On their web site they’ve posted the sessions they’ve recorded (but no streaming video). Today they’ll be covering: Wartime Editorial Cartoons and Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award. Start looking under the cushions for the […]
Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson is in Rome to judge the 24th International Biennial of Art Humour. His blog has sketches and photographs of his trip.
Single and Looking © Matt Jantz; Dist. Washington Post Writers Group. Used by permission The Washington Post Writer’s Syndicate has announced that Matt Janz has changed the title of his comic strip feature, Out of the Gene Pool, to Single and LookingThe reason for the change stems from a change in the strips focus over […]
From the National Journal comes a report on the AAEC convention this year. The story centers on the dwindling number of staff positions (a reoccurring theme), perspectives on animated editorial cartoons, and the demographics of the association. The AAEC will celebrate 50 years of existence at its annual meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington […]
Happy grilling and fireworking.Be back tomorrow.Alan
With the passing of Howie Schneider last week, his feature The Sunshine Club will be retired on September 1.From Mary Anne Grimes, Executive Director, Public Relations at United Media: The Sunshine Club came from Howie’s heart and soul – it was his vision. These were his ideas and he was passionate about them. We don’t […]
The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon has selected Ellen Berg and Prudence Peiffer to receive their foundation’s fellows for 2007-2008. The foundation noted that there was an unusual number of strong candidates and the fellowship grant money of $15,000 was split to support the two students.Berg is a postdoctoral fellow at […]
Dave Astor has written an excellent piece on some of the high, low, and funny points in the last 50 years of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. There also was that aforementioned 1988 encounter with former Zeppelin frontman Plant, who happened to be staying at the same Milwaukee hotel as AAEC conventioneers. Several cartoonists […]
San Diego cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom took home a few awards at this year’s San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquette this last week. Lucas was awarded 1st place in magazine illustration and honorable mention, 2nd and 1st place in the Original Drawing or Illustration category. Judges remarked his entries had a […]