Billy Penn informs Philadelphians about area news, and the big news in Philadelphia these days is Signe Wilkinson‘s retirement. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Signe Wilkinson is retiring from the Philadelphia Inquirer at the end of the year, where she spent three decades chronicling the city’s woes, lambasting its leaders, and celebrating its victories. The local […]
Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020.Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich, who provides a brief commentary for each of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoons he picks as his best. From USA Today: This week, we are featuring 2020 retrospectives by editorial cartoonists from across the USA TODAY […]
Comics and animation historian David Mruz has passed away. David Richard Mruz February 11, 1951 – December 20. 2020Comics and animation historian, fanzine publisher: Mindrot/AnimaniaWhen most of us think of Minneapolis cartoonists our thoughts go back to Charles Schulz, for native Minnesotan David Mruz his thoughts go back much further to another Charles:For comics historian […]
photos via Steve Milloy and Matt WuerkerFor the second time in ten days The Washington Post gave Ann Telnaes a full page to express her opinion. A most excellent use of the acreage.If you don’t get the dead tree edition, the cartoons can be read in detail at Ann’s WaPo page, or with Mike […]
Thought there would be a lot more “Our Cartoonist Looks Back on 2020” articles on this last Sunday of the year, but I guess with the dwindling number of editorial cartoonists on staff… The Minneapolis Star Tribune present some of Steve Sack‘s 2020 cartoons. A bit southeast the Wisconsin State Journal does the same with Phil Hands. Heading […]
Six weeks ago I mentioned the absence of Roger Mahoney‘s name in the in-strip credits line for the Andy Capp comic strip. Naturally two days later Mahoney was back in the credits. Then things got strange.When the time for the non-Mahoney strips came due for Creators/GoComics’ showing they skipped them and (for the first time?) […]
Wayno has revealed the new secret symbol that will soon begin appearing in Dan Piraro’s and Wayno’s Bizarro panels. On January 1, 2021, The Pipe of Ambiguity will join the roster of Secret Symbols. Dan and I agreed that it would be a fun way to continue to leave my mark on Bizarro as I […]
Signe Wilkinson and The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Philadelphia Daily News announced today that Signe will become an occasional contributor rather than a daily editorial cartoonist: Editor’s Note: Signe Wilkinson, the first woman win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is putting down her pencil at […]
Historical Comic and Cartoon articles from the past week.Starting with the man who created the modern Santa Claus seems appropriate. Grunge relates The Tragic Death of Thomas Nast. Pamela L. Travers was notoriously hard to deal with, as The Conversation notes in Mary Shepherd: The Artist Who Brought Mary Poppins to Life. It isn’t only us […]
Newspaper graphic artist Dorothy Henry has passed away. Dorothy Alice Henry (née: Leenknecht)October 31, 1925 – December 21, 2020Painter, commercial and advertising artist, newspaper illustrator, cartoonistDorothy was the staff illustrator of the Port Huron Times Herald for some years.From the obituary: Dorothy was employed as Advertising Design Artist and Illustrator at numerous agencies in the […]
This Christmas-themed collection includes works by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, Robert Lemen, Marguerite Martyn, Bill Mauldin, Robert Minor, Amadee Wohlschlaeger and other Post-Dispatch artists and editorial cartoonists. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch gallery of 50 cartoons through the years.
The Florida Press Club had announced the winners of their annual competition.Ed Hall took three awards, Steve Borggren one, and team Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza one. Illustration, Artist Illustration, Class A-C Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class A-B Steve Borggren, Anna Maria Island Sun Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class […]
Year-end lists are starting to show up.A couple In Memoriam on animation sites have been posted.Cartoon Brew documented obituaries in the animation industry. The past 12 months, in which the spectre of disease and death loomed over everything, saw Cartoon Brew chalk up a sad record: we have never published so many obituaries in one […]
It seems Canada’s Postmedia and Andrews McMeel Syndication have come to an agreement in which AMS will provide Postmedia websites with syndicated content (comics, columns, puzzles). In a December 21, 2020 announcement that appeared on Postmedia websites:A brand new Puzzles and Comics experience launches Monday on your favourite Postmedia website. All the comic strips that […]