Posted on: September 16, 2010

Between Friends explains my approach to housekeeping, and why there isn’t any.

The accidental creator of the “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day”, Molly Norris, is reportedly moving and changing her identity according to the Seattle Weekly. The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, “going ghost”: moving, changing her name, and […]

It’s confirmed. Drew Litton and Rich Moyer’s Monday Night Football animation has been green lighted by ESPN to be a weekly feature. Drew tells me that this is the “probably the best news I’ve had since the Rocky closed it’s doors over a year ago now.”Here’s the clip I posted on Monday:And of course, you’ll […]

Universal Uclick is launching Paul Trap’s Thatababy this October. You might remember Thatababy was among the final 10 in the Amazon Comic Strip Superstar Contest last year. The best place to see Paul’s work is still on Amazon’s website.Paul Trap is a freelance writer and illustrator. He serves as the editorial cartoonist for Baseball America […]

Ted Rall, Matt Bors and Steven Cloud are home from Afghanistan and Rall continues his journal of the trip here. This is an important document, since they were not on the Guided Tour. I don’t have any reason to think that the military is purposely misleading journalists who visit under more formal arrangements, but, when […]

The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists Convention is scheduled for later this month. The event runs September 23-26 in Hamilton Ontario. Coinciding with the convention is an exhibit entitled “Doodles to Digital” that runs from September 4 through December 12 and is described as, “shows how Canada’s best known editorial cartoonists have dealt with the […]

As usual, John Read gives me an advanced sneak peak at his upcoming magazine (pictured above). This issue is dedicated to nine cartoonists whose first name is Mike or Michael. Rumor has it that Mike Lynch (one of the profiled cartoonists) is fond of saying, “you don’t have to be named Mike to make it […]

We’re about a month away from this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art. If you’ve been sitting on the fence whether to attend this year’s festival, you may want to make up your mind quickly. I’m told seats are going quickly. Registration ends October 12 or until all seats are sold.This year’s Festival will be held […]

The amazement, incredulity and puzzlement over the possibility of compromise should have been a clue that this tiny opening wasn’t going to last long enough to slip a cartoon through it. But I like Pat Oliphant’s talent for the jugular and his ability to use funny pictures to create an unfunny effect.And, on a political […]

Ballard Street creator Jerry Van Amerongen is retiring the Sunday version of his strip. Jerry tells me that it takes him two days to produce his Sunday cartoon and ending the Sunday comic will ease “the deadline pressures I maintained for the last 30 years.” Additionally he plans on spending the extra time each week, […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is saluting two of its long-time Secretary/Treasurer Cullum Rogers and Minister of Information JP Trostle in their latest quarterly Notebook. Cullum has been the organizations treasurer for the last 12 years – an AAEC record. Up coming treasurer R.C. Harvey writes about Cullum’s tenure and influence. JP has been […]

Drew Litton and Rich Moyer have teamed up to produce what they hope will be the first of many Monday Night Football related animations.

Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won the Society of Professional Journalist’s 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards for editorial cartooning. The awards recognize the best in print, broadcast and online journalism produced throughout eleven southeastern states. Editorial cartoonist Bill Day of United Features Syndicate took second place and third place went to […]

I’m currently working on a newspaper serial story for young readers that takes place during Prohibition, and came across this cartoon while doing research. Well, we won’t be passing this one on to the kiddies, but if anyone recognizes the artist, I’d love to know who did it. The only thing that was posted on […]

One of the major rules in creating three-dimensional characters is to know more about them than you necessarily share. Comics are, for the most part, two-dimensional in both a graphic and a conceptual sense, with the characters having limited if any back-stories, and the back-stories that do exist being mostly an archive of episodes rather […]