The administrators of the annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival have decided that for 2020 the show will be online instead of a physical grouping. Following is the CXC statement:Cartoon Crossroads Columbus has decided that all CXC 2020 events cannot continue in their regular format, due to uncertainty about how to best protect the health and […]
Illustrator and editorial cartoonist Sandy Huffaker has passed away. Calvin Sanford (Sandy) Huffaker, Sr. September 23, 1943 – May 23, 2020From the obituary:Huffaker was a highly acclaimed political cartoonist who started his career with The Birmingham News and the Raleigh News and Observer. He later moved to New York City and illustrated covers and articles […]
Congressman Salud CarbajalDistrict OfficeSanta Barbara, CA Dear Congressman Carbajal, … I run a constituent small business in Montecito, Cagle Cartoons, Inc., that syndicates editorial cartoons and columnists. About half of America’s daily, paid-circulation newspapers subscribe to our service that you can see at CagleCartoons.com. Journalism has been in decline for years, but the newspaper industry […]
Phil Hands and the Wisconsin State Journal have announced that Phil is on furlough this week.From the Wisconsin State Journal: Phil Hands will be on furlough this week, but you can get caught up with his recent editorial cartoons in this gallery. From Phil’s Twitter feed: I’m taking a week of furlough and won’t be […]
Some of our readers were offended Thursday morning over a nationally syndicated editorial cartoon we published on page 6A.It seems the above cartoon by Clay Jones has raised hackles of some Daily Times readers: Our intent was to provoke outrage that an innocent black jogger could be murdered in today’s America and that our nation’s […]
Unsure why (unable to find any explanatory message) but after ten years,more or less, cartoonists Jack Swanepoel and John Curtis, better known by their partnership pen names Dr. Jack and Curtis, have decided to take a sabbatical from their Eyewitness News (EWN) cartooning in South Africa.Below are some selected cartoons from the deep archives of […]
The 2020 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will take place;one way or another, in one form or another.But the organizers would like your opinion on the matter: So what does the pandemic mean for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus? * We can say for sure that CXC is going to happen in some form this October, and that […]
Back in January, when the world was “different,” the Portland political cartoonist submitted entries for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He became busy with other obvious pressing things to even think about the Pulitzer until Monday morning, May 4. “I wasn’t aware that I was a finalist until about two hours before (the […]
Watch as Wisconsin State Journal political cartoonist Phil Hands walks viewers through his creative process as he draws this year’s Mother’s Day cartoon. WiscNews presents Phil digitally drawing this year’s Mother’s Day cartoons.
As noted earlier Lee Enterprises had announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Around the time Adam Zyglis took his two week furlough David Fitzsimmons of The Arizona Daily Star took a single week. Now Fitz is preparing us for a second week without his illustrated view […]
Barry Blitt of The New Yorker is the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Cartooning. Editorial Cartooning Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker For work that skewers the personalities and policies emanating from the Trump White House with deceptively sweet watercolor style and seemingly gentle caricatures. (Moved into contention by the Board.) Finalists included: […]
Canadian editorial cartoonist Yardley Jones joins the Senior Strippers club by celebrating his 90th birthday with friends on May 2, 2020. Former Journal cartoonist Yardley Jones and columnist Nick Lees mainly made faces at one another Saturday when Lees went to celebrate the 90th birthday of his friend Jones, now living in a west end […]
The Pulitzer Prize winners, usually named the third Monday of April, will be announced this coming first Monday of May. J. P. Trostle has taken on the insane task of handicapping the editorial cartoonists’ chances of winning their category this year.Sez Jape:Based on the past performance of the judges doling out the award, here then […]
“I have very little adult supervision.” Matt Wuerker, POLITICO’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, enjoys a colorful career sketching Trump, Pelosi, and other characters. [Politico goes] inside the wonderful world of Wuerker as he shares some of his best stories… including that one time he tried using a Rumsfeld cartoon to negotiate troop withdrawals.Politico delivers a […]
Tim Menees and Rob Rogers have been announced as finalists for the 56th Golden Quill Awards.Judging has been completed for The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania‘s 2020 Tri-State Golden Quill Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Media and Communications in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. The 56th competition recognizes professional excellence in written, […]