As news of Jay Kennedy’s passing spread through out the weekend, cartoonists from all stripes are passing on their condolences and talking about their connection to Jay. One thing is clear from reading many of the comments on this blog, Jay connected with just about everyone. One reoccurring theme is the sheer number of aspiring […]
This week, I’ll be spending much of my normal blogging time working on my presentation that I’ll be giving at the Lakeland Community College Comic Symposium this Saturday. As a result, blog posts here will not always be at the normal time (morning). If you don’t see the blog updated in the morning (8:00 am […]
NCS president Rick Stomoski has informed me that King Feature Syndicate Editor-in-Chief Jay Kennedy has passed away yesterday in a drowning accident while vacationing in Costa Rica. Not many details have emerged, but I will be watching for updates and post them here as the become available.I wish to express my condolences to the King […]
In a letter to NCS president Rick Stromoski, Carmella LaSpada, the director The Commission on Remembrance, is asking that comic strip and editorial cartoonist to mention Memorial Day in their artwork – specifically on Memorial Day. The commission is a Congressionally created organization tasked to “encourage Americans to honor those who died for our freedoms […]
Last year in February, Tom Toles received a rare and public letter signed by six Joint Chiefs of staff members criticizing him for a cartoon that he did depicting a multiple amputee soldier and a callous Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the latest flap over General Peter Pace’s recent comments calling homosexuality immoral, Tom […]
Brad Gilchrist, (the other half who does the Nancy comic strip) and Peter Menice (editorial cartoonist) have teamed up to create a new environmentally themed comic called The Green House. The strip, which serves as a humorous insight into living a sustainable lifestyle, was hatched back in 2005 and is scheduled for an official launch […]
This week is the annual Sunshine Week. Each year the American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors a campaign to draw attention to the importance of a free and open government and information. And each year, many editorial cartoonists participate by drawing Sunshine Week cartoons or submitted their cartoons on the topic of secrecy. Over at […]
Doonesbury is storming to YouTube – or at least some seven year old video archives of Uncle Duke’s run for the presidency. Universal’s uclick is uploading 6 new archive videos to YouTube and doonesbury.com twice a month. There are 30 short animation films in all. From the press release: In the March 4, 2007 “Doonesbury” […]
From the AAEC web site comes sad news that the Greenville News (Greenville SC) has eliminated Roger Harvell’s job as a staff editorial cartoonist and has said that there is no funding for the position in the future. The Greenville News has a circulation of 112,000.
Mike Rhode, over at the ComicsDC blog noticed an article in the Washington Post about a cartoon by William Woodward Jr. that recently re-ran (the cartoon was originally published in 2002 and has been printed once before) in the St. Mary Today depicting what many are calling racist because it allegedly depicts three black men […]
The Independent Mail in Anderson SC has added an editorial cartoonist to their opinion page. Al Stine is a local painter who also does cartoons for Playboy. Al Stine is well-known for his exquisite paintings. As the result of a recent newspaper story, you may also be aware of his background as a cartoonist for […]
Here is an interesting story out of the News-Sentinel (Fort Worth, TX) about a woman named Helen Newton who amassed one of the largest private collections of editorial cartoons over the span of 44 years (1939-1983) as a politically active letter writer. The collection includes several Pulitzer Prize winning artists. Here are a few that […]
The Washington Post has announced that they are making several comic page changes. Starting on Monday, they are adding three new comics: Agnes (Tony Cochran) Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (Tim Rickard) and Brevity (Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry). Brevity with alternate with Close to Home (John McPherson). Dave Coverly’s Speed Bump will now run seven […]
Head over to Daryl Cagle’s blog to listen to audio of Monte Wolverton talking about his work. Also posted is another audio clip of Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen about his cartoons.
Universal Press has announced that Bob Harrell will end his comic Big Top on March 25th. In statement by Bob, he says:This was an incredibly difficult decision. The strip, and the characters feel like family to me and I loved every day of doing Big Top. But for both professional and financial reasons, itâ??s time […]