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The Herb Block Foundation has announced that the ceremony honoring the 2020 Herblock Prize winners has, for now, been cancelled:

REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions.  As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]

Beginning March 3, 2020 the Midland Daily News is featuring the cartoons of Leroy Martin on Tuesdays.Today, we are announcing a new weekly feature that will be in your Midland Daily News: A local editorial cartoon. Each Tuesday will feature a local editorial cartoon by Leroy Martin, 71, of Midland, who has been drawing editorial […]

Labor cartoonists Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki have retired and closed their syndicate service.The introduction to their farewell message:In 1983 Gary Huck and I attended a convention of the International Labor Press Association (now the International Labor Communications Association). Our mutual friend David Elsila, editor of the UAW Solidarity magazine, introduced us to his fellow […]

The Herblock Foundation has announced their choice for the 2020 Herblock Prize:Winner Michael de Adder Contributing cartoonist for both The Nib and Counterpoint Finalist Matt Lubchansky Contributing cartoonist for The Nib  From the Foundation about Michael de Adder:The judges for the 2020 Herblock Prize stated: “There were many strong submissions in this moment of political crisis […]

The CRNI is announcing that:After some fifteen years in the role Joel Pett – multi-award winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald Leader – has decided to retire from the Presidency of Cartoonists Rights Network International’s board of directors. Mr Pett’s decision comes six months on from the retirement from active duties of CRNI’s founder […]

Tom Richmond has released the poster for the 74th Annual Reuben Awards.A couple of not-yet-announced awards by the National Cartoonists Society are revealed.Hy Eisman will be awarded the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. The Milton Caniff is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors. It is given for a lifetime of outstanding […]

The Tulsa World is soliciting political cartoons from local artists:Submit your own editorial cartoon for a chance to be published in the Tulsa World. The Tulsa World is seeking contributions from local artists interested in expressing their opinions of public issues through original editorial cartoons. Editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante and Editorial Pages Editor Wayne Greene […]

The Fort Stockton Pioneer is now publishing Steve Burnett cartoons.Cartoonist Steve Burnett is featured every Thursday on The Pioneer’s Opinion page. Cartoonist Steve Burnett’s cartoons appear each Thursday in the print and edition of The Pioneer. From the oil fields to the classrooms, Burnett brings a humorous look to West Texas living. I’m not sure […]

Randy Bish‘s old stomping ground once more gives him some space. This time talking about his new Yellow Kid comic book.Randy Bish, 57, of Hempfield, was the Tribune-Review’s editorial cartoonist from 1985 through 2016. His work continues to be syndicated via Pennsylvania NewsMedia, Cagle Cartoons and The Fourth Estate. Chris Yambar, 58, of Youngstown, Ohio, […]

Famed editorial cartoonist KAL (Kevin Kallaugher) has signed with Andrews McMeel Syndication to distribute his impressive and popular political cartoons.Below is the Andrews McMeel press release:AWARD-WINNING EDITORIAL CARTOONIST KEVIN KALLAUGHER (KAL) JOINS ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIONKANSAS CITY, MO (February 28, 2020) — Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) is proud to announce the addition of Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) to […]

Cagle Cartoons has made some changes to its homepage and to functions at the site. Daryl Cagle uses up a little bandwidth to talk about and explain the changes.We’ve made some changes to the front page of our syndicate site, CagleCartoons.com that will affect our contributing artists.The CagleCartoons.com site is the core of our little […]

The Morning Star, a British daily, apologized Sunday for a cartoon it ran Tuesday:The Morning Star apologises unreservedly for the publication last Tuesday of a cartoon which was offensive to trans people. The cartoon had not been authorised for publication and its appearance in the print edition represents a failure to follow our own procedures […]

When I opened my annual “American Association of Editorial Cartoonists Notebook”, our trade journal, the bell tolled for my profession, page by page, cartoonist by cartoonist. The Golden Age of Oliphant, MacNelly and Paul Conrad is long gone. This year our annual AAEC convention will convene in Ottawa with our Canadian colleagues because our numbers […]

In an effort to keep active duty frontline soldiers uninformed, the new Pentagon budget would cut all funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper.The proposed cuts to the editorially independent news organization, which is partially funded by the Pentagon, were a product of the recent defense-wide review ordered by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, said Elaine […]