Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey has been awarded the Governor’s Initiative for Volunteer Excellence (GIVE) for Outstanding Service by a Media Personality. The award recognizes Mississippi residents who “raise the bar in humanitarianism and servant leadership.” The report in the Clarion-Ledger doesn’t specify what volunteering Marshall has engaged in, but anyone who follows this blog […]
John Auchter, who draws editorial cartoons for the Grand Rapids Press (MI), has picked up a chain of papers to his client roster. Last month MLive Media Group consolidated print operations and hired John to do weekly cartoons to appear in The Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, and […]
Lordy, Lordy, next week Funky Winkerbean turns 40! A few events are planned to mark the milestone. Up first is the release of volume one of a complete collection. This first collection features cartoons from 1972-1974. Additional volumes to follow about ever three years. Bob Harvey penned the forward and you can order your book […]
Tom Racine’s guest this week was Darrin Bell who does Candorville and Rudy Park (with Theron Heir). Darrin Bell, of the most excellent “Candorville” and “Rudy Park” joins me to talk about political cartooning, his early days of newspaper work, how he snuck into offices to get his cartoons seen, how 9/11 affected his comics […]
Kliban is back! Universal Uclick has announced they’re running Bernard “Hap” Kliban classic cartoons on GoComics. Starting this week they’ll run Kliban cartoons on Monday, Wednesday, Friday with a second feature called Kliban’s Cats to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Kliban is famous for his Playboy cartoons and his Cat cartoons. He died in 1990 at […]
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon profiles Tom The Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling (real name Ken Fisher) for his Sunday Interview.TOM SPURGEON: We tend to link cartoonists to their primary venue — “comic book artist” or “strip cartoonist” — but it strikes me that you don’t have a lot of company doing exactly what you do, […]
Frank Cho has posted news that two new Liberty Meadows collections are coming out this year. In June look for the first of three of “Liberty Meadows Sunday Collection.” Book two fill follow later in the fall.
The Hair Balls blog with the Houston Press has posted a round up of “What if other comic strips took on the sonogram bill?”A few papers pulled the comic for the week, opting to run older strips in its place. We applaud those who stood firm, and we applaud Trudeau — never one to shy […]
When Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley found out his paper was going to pull last Thursday’s Doonesbury, he found a creative way to keep it in the paper – he used it in his editorial cartoon. Each week Pat posts a online-column called “Behind the Lines” wherein he and BYU economist Val Lambson […]
A really good interview over at Slate by Emily Bazelon with Garry Trudeau over the dust up over this week’s abortion series. The whole Interview is worth the time to read for a good insider perspective to the controversy. Here’s a bit from a question about how Doonesbury competes with shows like SNL and The […]
Hefei University of Technology has developed software that uses facial recognition to analyze movies to produce a comic book based on the movie.Developed at the Hefei University of Technology, in China, the clever tech will first of all analyse a film, identify the characters via facial recognition, and then start taking screen-grabs of the action. […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has been told her job at the paper is no longer in danger. Last week, after Tony Auth announced he was leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer, we learned that Signe’s future was dependent on 10 other individuals taking a voluntary buy-out. Michael Cavna reports that while she and the […]
The Salt Lake Tribune decided to run this week’s Doonesbury, but at the last moment got cold feet with today’s “I thee rape” strip. Unsatisfied with the decision, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, Pat Bagley, found a unique solution – he put the strip in his editorial cartoon as seen below. For the non-locals: the hot-tub […]
Next Media Animation has posted an dramatized animation explaining the controversy created by this week’s Doonesbury. Contains great scenes of Garry Trudeau busting out a can o’ whoop a– (doink!, boink! and yoink!) on Rick Perry and others.
Michael Cavna interviews Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler about his move to the Columbus Dispatch:“When the Columbus Dispatch asked if I was interested in applying for the cartoonist position, I couldn’t say no,” Beeler tells ‘Riffs. “It’s the number-one newspaper in Ohio, and Columbus is both the state capital and my hometown. My parents […]