Posted on: February 19, 2007

The Miami Herald editorial cartoonist Jim Morin has won the 2007 Herblock Prize award for editorial cartooning and a cash prize of $10,000. The award ceremony is April 4 at the Library of Congress according to E&P.

For those in the Pittsburgh area, The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder will be in Pittsburgh tomorrow evening to meet the public (and presumably speak). The evening is sponsored by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. The event is not free and begins at 8 pm. Visit the link above for contact info.

Fantagraphics has announced that they will be publishing a Complete Pogo series that will be designed by cartoonist Jeff Smith, according to Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter. Fantagraphics had previously published 11 soft-cover books covering five and a half years. This new volume will be published annually with about two years of material per […]

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey’s exhibit opens tomorrow with 101 of his best editorial cartoons from the last 10 years with the Mississippi newspaper. There’s a good write-up about it on the Clarion-Ledger’s web siteFrom his blog he described what he felt when he saw the exhibit before the official opening: For a reason that […]

Today, Creators Syndicate posted the first strip of a new feature that they have under development. The new feature is entitled The Dogs of C Kennel by Mick Mastroianni. The web site says: Creators Syndicate receives thousands of submissions every year, of which we only select a few to work with. From time to time, […]

In one of the weirder stories I’ve been tracking these last couple of months is the one about the Garfield statue that was beheaded back in December when the statue was “hugged.” The head was found a couple of days later at the side of the road several miles away. Police were tipped off as […]

Mikhaela Reid writes in to tell me about an editorial cartoon and illustration contest she’s involved in. The Life Without Fair Courts is a contest to garner attention to the good things the courts have done for equality in America. She mentions this would be a good contest for “any aspiring, struggling or college cartoonists.” […]

According to E&P, editorial cartoonist and Barney Google and Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Smith will speak at a Virginia retirement community on the 23rd.

James Kemsley from down under writes in to tell me that the latest issue of Inkspot has been posted. Inkspot is the official journal of the Australian Cartoonists Association. This latest issue has several pages on the passing of Paul Rigby who died in November of last year and a follow-up to the 2006 Stanley […]

Providence Journal editorial cartoonist Jim Bush will be lecturing this Saturday on the topic of “The Art of the Political Cartoon: Editorial Cartooning in the State of Rhode Island.” Jim has been doing cartoons for the Providence Journal since 1994. The lecture is not free and seating is limited. If interested visit the New Port […]

Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries has launched a new web site to promote her feature and give fans a place to learn more about the herself and her work.

Jose Varela, the former El Nuevo Herald editorial cartoonist, who held employees of Miami Herald captive for four hours with a toy gun will write a tell-all book to explain his actions.He says, “My motivation was to send a personal message with all the problems inside the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald,” he said.

The Washington state legislature passed a resolution honoring the memory of the late editorial cartoonist Bob McCausland who spent more than 30 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and then another 30 years after retirement doing cartoons for the Daily World. Bob died last year at age 90.The motivation for the resolution […]

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will take part in a “History Is Lunch” series at the William F. Winter Archives and Histroy Building in Jackson on February 28th. He’ll talk about his cartoons and sign copies of his latest book that commemorates his 10 years at the Clarion-Ledger.

Matt Wuerker is getting props over at the Washingtonian as the new Politico editorial cartoonist. Against that backdrop, Matt Wuerker’s illustrations pop off the pages. What distinguishes the Politico from its competitors-Roll Call and The Hill-is that it has chosen to hire and highlight a political cartoonist at a time when newspaper cartooning is a […]