Posted on: July 27, 2012

A combination of having done political cartooning presentations for many years and being in Denver at the time of the Dark Knight shootings made this 1981 Jim Mazzotta cartoon spring to mind.

Most Olympics that I can remember have had a cartoonist or two covering them for their respective papers, but this the first time I’ve heard of an Olympics with a commissioned official artist. Covering the London Olympics and Paralympics is political cartoonist Nicholas Garland.From the London Evening Standard:“The brief is really very wide – he […]

Loved the art in this short – especially the birds. OZO from OZO Team on Vimeo.Via Florian Satzinger

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted a new video with audio from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Ding Darling talking about his approach to editorial cartooning. The video contains a collage of editorial cartoons from early US history to the present day.The AAEC’s annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year (Sept […]

There are several layers to the Voter Suppression Movement, but I think Tony Auth does the best job of getting to the heart of the matter.Both Keith Knight …… and Lee Judge … … question the GOP’s priorities, but that doesn’t really cut to the heart of the matter. In fact, it kind of ignores the […]

Last week I mentioned that the Penny Arcade gentlemen, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, launched a Kickstarter project to raise $1 million to replace all advertising on their website. In four days, they raised over $250,000. At various milestones of fundraising, the duo will be “unlocking” certain features are opened. One of which is a […]

Tom Armstrong’s Marvin has turned 30 years old. From King Features:MARVIN first appeared in newspaper comics pages on August 1, 1982. Since that day, the comic strip has revolved around the life and times of a precocious baby boy named Marvin, his father and mother Jeff and Jenny Miller, and their dog Bitsy. Other characters […]

Paul Slade has written an opus about Reg Smyth and his comic Andy Capp wherein he looks at the global popularity of the strip – rivaling only Charles Schulz’ Peanuts but with much, much less respect.He begins:Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century – and second only to Peanuts’ […]

Cartoon Movement is hosting an interesting look at the London Olympics by Tom Humberstone. It’s a quick read — 11 pages — but a nice journalistic contrast with the combination of shallow triumphalism and goopy advertorial coverage you’re apt to see elsewhere.I was a fan of the Olympics back when they seemed to be a […]

After 79 year run, Newsweek will end as print magazine.Bloomberg, reporting on IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) quarterly earnings call:A plan to move Newsweek to an online-only publication will be announced as early as September, Diller said. Newsweek became part of his media holdings in 2011 when it merged with IAC’s Daily Beast Co., an online news startup […]

Anne Hambrock has announced that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning will include an exhibit of original comic art (and opening reception) at the Kenosha Public Museum and a silent auction with the proceeds going to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Margaret Ann’s Place. The auction is being sponsored by the National Cartoonist Society Foundation.Here’s the […]

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that Dave Thorne, “‘the father’ and ‘the Jedi master’ of Hawaii cartooning” has passed away at the age of 82. Thorne taught cartooning classes at the University of Hawaii for 23 years and also was an illustrator for the Department of Education for many years. He was active until last year, […]

Moroccan cartoonist Khalid Gueddar was detained by police for over six hours and questioned about a caricature he posted on his website that they allege is a insult to Islam. The cartoon in question is actually a re-published cartoon that he drew last year depicting someone tossing lingerie from a minaret. He was arrested in […]

Today’s Broom Hilda is another example of ill-timed cartoon in light of the Aurora Colorado shootings. Francesco Marciuliano, writer for Sally Forth, issued an apology for Sunday’s Sally Forth strip that had a far looser connection to the events in Aurora. It kind of raises the question – at what point after a tragedy can […]

The Toronto Star has issued an apology for a Michael de Adder editorial cartoon that ran last week after a gang related shooting left two dead and over 20 injured – including a toddler. The cartoon depicted a toddler with a captions that read: “Injuries to expect before they are two: Boo boo from high […]