Fantastic news from the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. If you’ve not had the opportunity to visit the library and museum, it’s a near spiritual experience.Press release:The Ohio State University Libraries is thrilled to announce that The Hershey Foundation of Northeast Ohio has answered the Schulz Challenge with a multi-year grant […]
If you haven’t been keeping up with Sally Forth, you’re not missing a lot of laughs. Sally has been ordered to make a boatload of personnel cuts, and Ces decided to let us watch the process, in large part, through the eyes of one of the potential victims of this edict.Which is not boffo laff-fest […]
Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel has been honored with this year’s National Headliners Award.You can see his award entry cartoons on the Indystar.com website.Second and third place went to Jeff Koterba (Omaha World-Herald) and Nate Beeler (The Washington Examiner) respectively.
Tom Racine has a great interview with cartoonist, illustrator Stacy Curtis who has taken over inking Cul de Sac for Richard Thompson. I’ve always thought highly of Stacy, and after hearing his reasoning as to why he’s not signing his name to the Cul de Sac strip, my respect for him grew three fold.
Taking his second major prize for the year, Matt Bors has been honored with The Society of Professional Journalists’ 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism.Matt is also this year’s Herblock Prize winner.Congratulations, Matt.
Jeff Koterba, editorial cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald, is being featured in a documentary on creativity and Tourette Syndrome. In addition to his editorial cartoons, Jeff is a writer and musician.One of the most surrealistic moments I’ve ever experienced had to be watching myself twitch on the big screen-when I was able to watch, that […]
I missed this one, but congratulations are in order to Jack Ohman of The Oregonian who was awarded this year’s Scripps Howard Award for editorial cartooning. Judges noted his “multi-panel cartoons that addressed national issues from a local perspective.”Finalists this year include: Nick Anderson (Houston Chronicle) and Stephanie McMillan (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
The blossoming scandal over the General Services Administration’s fun-filled 2010 convention in Las Vegas was served up to cartoonists on a platter, by virtue of the GSA hiring a clown and fitting themselves out in silly costumes and then video recording the results.Matt Wuerker is one of several commentators who seem to have caught on […]
Remember when I reported that Guy Endore-Kaiser proposed to his girlfriend in his comic, Brevity?. The happy couple were married Saturday evening and got a write up in the New York Times Weddings/Celebrity section.Congratulations to you both.
Andertoons creator Mark Anderson:I’m a cartoonist. I draw funny pictures with funny words that I send out into the world to earn my living. I love my job unquestioningly. That is until recently, when I ran across a TED Talk by Simon Sinek about how great leaders inspire action. Now, I am neither a great […]
Joel Pett writing in the Sacramento Bee:This past year, as he battled his mystifying, excruciating disease, he became one of my closest and most admired friends. He tried to teach me things, big, important things about life’s priorities, the utter foolishness of wasting energy on, well, the things we all waste it on. I last […]
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary, has been nominated for two Hugo Awards one for “Best Graphic Story” and “Best Related Work”. This is his fourth nomination for Best Graphic Story and second time for Best Related Work for his work on the Writing Excuses podcast.From his blog:The “Best Graphic Story” ballot is […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has announced they’ve selected Sarah Miller as this year’s Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship winner. She’s a student at Savannah College of Art and Design where she studies illustration. She also writes and illustrates comics, paints, and does caricatures at conventions. She recently completed an illustrated book based on a […]
Today’s triple-feature starts out innocently enough, in Between Friends: Kids take for granted the technology they have known most of their lives.Admittedly, it’s a bit of a stretch to assume Danny doesn’t know people who don’t have multiple cell phones (grandparents?). But, even if he wouldn’t likely be unaware of the concept of a home with […]
In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley correctly points out the absurdity of whateverthehell is going on the minds of some gentlemen, many of whom may be Republicans. I’m making no generalities, no assumptions, no accusations.After all, it’s not fair to assume, for example, that the majority of members of the Augusta National Golf Club are Republicans. It […]