Posted on: September 11, 2013

Robert Ariail and Kate Salley Palmer speak about editorial cartooning at USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.

My Facebook wall is full of editorial cartoons this morning on the topic of 9/11. I’m seeing two approaches to the 12th anniversary. Cartoonists are sticking to the sentimental or they’re pointing out how it’s changed America.An example of the sentimental by Jeff Koterba: An example of what’s changed by Pat Bagley: If you want […]

King Features’s The Archivist blog notes that Bill Hoest’s The Lockhorns has turned 45 years old this week. There have been unhappy spouses in comic strips before, from the ever-bickering Greens in MR. & MRS. to the battle-strewn, married life of Jiggs and Maggie in BRINGING UP FATHER, but THE LOCKHORNS is different. Other comic […]

Paul Gilligan has drawn his 5,000th Pooch Cafe comic strip: Holy snap. I can feel the bones in my drawing hand creaking. I had to do the calculation three times. I had to use an abacus, because apparently those were all the rage around the time I started drawing this strip, which debuted on Jan […]

One of the advantages of web commentary over syndicated commentary is the speed with which you can change directions. It’s a little unclear where things are going in Syria, and, while people determined to hold onto their set opinions don’t have a problem, rethinking an issue on deadline can get tricky.Still, a few syndicated cartoonists […]

Gary Friedrich maintained that he was the creator of the Ghost Rider character and sued Marvel in 2007 over royalties derived from the movies starring Nicolas Cage. In 2012 a lower court ruled in favor of Marvel stating that Gary gave up the rights in 1979. Marvel proceeded to demand Gary pay $17,000 for compensation […]

Over the weekend, I moved hosting services. I’m still working out the kinks (the site is loading slower than desired) and for about a day to two my email wasn’t working. So if you sent me anything Sunday or Monday, please resend to make sure I got it.Sorry for the hassles everyone, but on the […]

Harley Quinn co-writer Jimmy Palmiotti has posted a clarification on his Facebook page regarding the controversial talent search contest that asked aspiring comic book artists to depict the Harley Quinn character naked in her tub about to commit suicide. According to his post, he apologized for not providing better context around the script and clarified […]

Another group of NCS cartoonists headed out to visited troops in Afghanistan. The tours are sponsored by the USO. The cartoonists spent nine days abroad. The cartoonists in this latest group include:Ray Alma (MAD Magazine), Paul Combs (Illustrator, editorial cartoonist), Bruce Higdon (Punderstatements), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Mason Mastroianni (B.C.), Michael Ramirez (editorial cartoonist), […]

Salt Lake Magazine’s Fernando Lara did a great video wrap-up of the first ever Salt Lake Comic Con. I keep bring this up, and certainly the organizers don’t need my help promoting this anymore, but this convention has established itself to be a big one in the future. Salt Lake City is very easy to […]

Greeting card and children’s book author, illustrator Sandra Boynton is releasing a songbook and album entitled Frog Trouble… And Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs. NPR profiles Sandra on Weekend Edition. Frog Trouble has fun layers of detail, like incorporating the four-note “My Dog Has Fleas” tune that’s used to tune ukuleles at the start of […]

John Lewis, together with Andrew Aydin and cartoonist Nate Powell, has put together the first volume of a history that needs to be told, and read, and absorbed.Today’s blog entry begins as “March, Book One” begins, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where a peaceful march was attacked, first by Alabama State Troopers, […]

Ed Vebell, a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during World War II talks about sharing an office with Bill Mauldin. The vignette below runs 4 minutes.Via Mike Lynch

In the strip the characters have lived in a fictional suburban town of Three Rocks, but yesterday’s Nancy Sunday comic reveals that Three Rocks is a suburb of the not-so-fictional Nashville, TN. The comic was part of a Nashville anti-littering campaign and Nancy is the spokesperson. From Nancy writer/illustrator Guy Gilchrist’s blog: The upcoming Sunday […]

Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will have an exhibit of his work at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY. The exhibit opens September 18 and runs through the end of October. The opening reception features Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News), Jack Ohman (Sacramento Bee), Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and William Hamilton (The New Yorker). […]