From Steve Artley:Pelican Publishing Company, which produced the annual collection of editorial cartoons, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, announced on November 18 that it has ceased production of the series, ending with the 2014 edition released last spring. The series, originally edited by editorial cartoonist Charles Brooks began in the early seventies and for […]
After the Bucks County Courier Times ran a Chris Britt cartoon, a couple police organizations have written letters or made statements of protest. Someone has gone one step further and created a Facebook page called Standing Up Against BCCT with the goal of creating a list of local advertisers that do business with the paper […]
From Wired magazine:It?s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can?t draw anymore?he just can?t meet his own standards. ?I?m not satisfied with the work,? Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. ?I can still draw, but I just can?t draw like I used to.?Fantastic career.H/T: Tom Richmond
This is almost comical now. In response to the Chris Britt cartoon featured above that ran in the Bucks County Courier Times. The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby wrote a letter to the editor expressing that the paper is only “allegedly respectable”, it’s going to hell as a “miserable parasites in the […]
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has been named as this year’s winner of the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial CartooningFrom the judges: The judges saw elegant simplicity in Clay Bennett?s work ? clear drawings, clear messages. Bennett?s style is disarming and charming with a strong bite underneath. His […]
A recent Chris Britt cartoon has ticked off a police organization in Bucks County Pennsylvania. The cartoon (above) is yet another one on the theme of how police are perceived by some members The Bensalem Police has demanded a full-page apology and say they’ll organize their own protest of the paper in the coming weeks.The […]
Former Anchorage Daily News editorial cartoonist Peter Dunlap Shohl was interviewed by the local tv station about the projects he’s working on such as his Frozen Grin blog animations as well as his cartoons on the ?Off & On, The Alaska Parkinson?s Rag.?
We finally get a peek at Pixar’s Inside Out which is due out next June. Looks like a funny premise.
From the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum:The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will celebrate the centennial of King Features Syndicate with King of the Comics: William Randolph Hearst and 100 Years of King Features. This exhibit examines the role William Randolph Hearst played in the birth of newspaper comics and traces the 100-year […]
Nice write up in the Waco Tribune about former Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein who is launching a web comic in January called Sleeper Ave.From The Waco Tribune:Stein said the era ?Sleeper Ave.? is based on lends itself to storytelling because it was rife with major social change, often to the dismay of […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley has offended the Virginia Police Benevolent Association with a recent cartoon depicting how children see police officers. The association wrote a statement in the News and Advance (Lynchburg, VA) where the cartoon ran:During my 25 year law enforcement career and during the time I have been Executive Director […]
Last week, the editors of The Art of Richard Thompson gathered for an evening to talk about Richard Thompson. Below is the audio to that discussion. I’ll post video if I see that someone captured it.
Lindsay Foyle argues that the decline in newspaper subscriptions follows the decline of running comic strips in The New Matilda.Over the past 20 years it has become the trendy thing to do for newspaper editors to reduce the number of comics they publish. Not just in Australia, but all over the world. Just why, is […]
FYI for those who like to enter contests.From Slate:Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. (Last year?s winners: Taiyo Matsumoto and Emily Carroll.) The creators of two exceptional comics will be awarded $1,000 each. Winners will be selected by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, the […]
I know a lot of newspaper cartoonists have migrated into the children’s books, so Hagar the Horrible cartoonist Chris Browne’s story isn’t unique in any way. I just enjoyed the off the cuff approach he took to pitching the book.By the time he was out the door, Browne had the whole storyline mapped out in […]