Drew Litton, one of the rare sports cartoonists in the country, is marking his 25 years at the Rocky Mountain News. 25 years. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. It seems like only yesterday when I sat in the press box at Mile High stadium for the very first time. I’ve been blessed […]
Phil Frank’s Farley has been a local comic for the San Francisco Chronicle since the mid 1980s, but according to Daryl Cagle it will come to an end today. With the news of the firing of Leo Garza who drew the Nacho Guarache for the San Antonio Express-News, we have Ed Stein and his Denver […]
Michael Roberts, a columnist for the Denver Westword paper, recently forced himself to read every comic in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News for a two week period to gauge the state of the the funny paper. To find out what else I’ve been missing, if anything, I read every comic in the Post […]
Last year, I reported about Grant Woolard, a student cartoonist at the University of Virginia, who created a national stir for two cartoons that were published in the Cavalier Daily. Both the editor and cartoonist later apologized for running the cartoons. Woolard has set off another controversy this week that resulted in about 200 students […]
The Washington Post Writers Group has picked up It’s All About You by Tony Murphy and will be launching the feature on December 31st.From the description on the syndicate’s site, The YouTube generation meets Seinfeld in It’s All About You, a new daily and Sunday comic strip by Tony Murphy. “The strip’s title is sort […]
Austin American-Statesman cartoonist Ben Sargent will be the featured speaker at the Brazos County Democratic Party fund-raiser on September 16. The event will also include various Democratic candidates. A word of caution to Ben: Don’t donate any money, but if you do, don’t go on record as saying you “don’t give a ratâ??s ass” about […]
F-Minus creator Tony Carrillo has posted a short video to YouTube to describe what his F-Minus book collection will be like. My first thought: An episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos?See the video for yourself.The book is available at Amazon.
The cartooning community has lost a gentleman of the art. Arnold Wagner passed away on Friday August 31st after a return of an earlier battle of cancer. Arnold was a co-founder to an early cartoonist trade journal called The PRO Cartoonist & Gagwriter and authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Cartooning. He was a frequent […]
Yesterday marked the launch of Lynn Johnston’s “hybrid” For Better or For Worse. Today’s is perhaps the first actual “mixing” of the two old and new art work. Can anyone with a FBoFW collection tell us how much of this strip is actually new versus old? My guess the writing in panels 1-3 are new […]
Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne has started a blog on his paper’s web site. Entitled Henry Payne’s Sketchbook, it contains, roughs and finished editorial cartoons.Thanks Charles Brubaker for the link.
I took the full weekend off and so I didn’t see the second banned Opus strip until late last night. Personally, I thought it was even more benign than last weeks.
According to the AAEC web site, Craig Terry, who has been the editorial cartoonist and graphics editor of Northwest Florida Daily News was let go in an apparent buy out. Craig has been doing editorial cartoonist in Florida for over 25 years.
I’ve updated the rules regarding posting comments on this site. In summary, if I feel the comments to a blog post are going off-topic and participants are engaging in a flame war, I will: Post a comment to all warning that the thread is heading off course. If the participants can’t get the thread back […]
The Winston-Salem Journal has announced they’re adding Tony Carrillo’s F Minus to their line up. They’ve also posted an interview and feature background to introduce their feature to their readers.
© John Cox and Allen Forkum, used by permission.Online editorial cartoonists John Cox and Allen Forkum weigh in on the Washington Post not running Opus.