Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian and caricaturist Jason Chatfield relates how he ended up creating a caricature of Larry David. I can?t quite explain why, but being insulted by Larry is a great honour. The job came through a fellow New York illustrator and great friend, Ed Steckley. He passed the job on through an agency, knowing full well […]
Speaking of Jason Chatfield and caricatures, he has another great story about how he ended up in the seat of a Parisian caricaturist for a caricature and ended up switching the tables. Or, um, seats. I felt kind of guilty about the whole photo debacle, so wanted to make amends. I walked over and said […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the nominees for the 2014 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees are New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis and Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price.This is Roz’s first nomination for the Reuben; Stephan has been nominated 52 times (actually, seven); […]
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Maybe the only good thing about grieving over a beloved celebrity is Matt Bors mocking other editorial cartoonists’ obit cartoons. Click the image above to see the full comic.
Kind of like a super hero that just can’t be defeated, Stan Lee Media is filing yet another lawsuit – or in this case an appeal of an earlier loss with the hope of going to the Supreme Court for final resolution.From Robot 6:After losing one lawsuit after another in its eight-year battle for many […]
March 17th will mark the 30th anniversary of Greg Evans’s Luann (see the first comic above). From GoComics:?If time flies when you’re having fun, then I’ve had a blast the past 30 years!? Evans said. ?I feel lucky that I’ve been able to spend nearly half my life doing the thing I love most: creating […]
From Cartoonists Rights Network International:Iranian artist-activist Atena Farghadani, who has been on a hunger strike in Gharchak Prison south of Tehran since February 9, 2015, is in precarious medical condition according to her lawyer, as reported by Amnesty International. ?Her life is now literally in the hands of the Iranian authorities. She must receive the […]
Oy! Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a voicemail posted by The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN) from an eight-year old boy who demanded the paper reinstate his favorite comics. He concludes by calling the paper (or editors) “idiots, jerks, [and] shitholes.” The profanity is in the last 15 or so seconds.The demand includes reinstating: […]
The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner of the Herblock Prize is Baltimore Sun and The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher .From the Herblock Foundation: In a distinguished career that spans more than 36 years, KAL has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resume includes six collections of his […]
From Malaysian Insider:Police have disrupted the second attempted launch of cartoonist Zunar’s latest book, ROS in Kangkongland, and will arrest the satirist if he proceeds with the event on the book featuring the prime minister’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. Zunar, whose full name is Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, said he was told by police officials […]
From Sputnik News: Sweden’s Karlstad University cancelled a lecture by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, author of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, who was allegedly targeted in a recent Copenhagen shooting, a university representative told The Local news outlet Friday. Over 10,000 Commemorate Victims of Copenhagen Shooting Vilks was expected to talk in front of some 100 […]
From the NY Times: Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, was arrested Thursday in Oslo on preliminary charges of inciting to commit criminal offense, a day after giving an interview to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. He was also apprehended on preliminary charges for threating a Kurdish immigrant living in Norway in the same TV interview. […]
Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, was the 2014 winner of the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. Here’s his acceptance speech.