Tallahassee Democrat political cartoonist Nathan Archer has created a comic strip for the paper.Ella by Nathan Archer January 3, 2020 – weekly strip Tallahassee Democrat Sez Nathan:The name is no coincidence. My feathered female protagonist is indeed named after Tallahassee’s own Midtown attraction, a favorite of mine since I moved here almost 20 years ago. Ella […]
Editorial cartoonist Jim Morin has decided to retire and devote his time to the Finer Arts. He goes out with a bang!From Jim’s Twitter feed:Jim’s career began in the mid-70s at the Syracuse University Daily Orange, the Beaumont (Tx) Enterprise and Journal, and the Richmond (Va) Times-Dispatch. In 1978 he found a home with the […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers.AAEC Officers 2020-2021 President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer President-elect: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Pat Bagley, Salt Lake City Tribune Director: Ed Hall, freelance (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker Director: Tim Campbell, […]
I’m thinking (hoping) this will be the last of these “Best of” issues.By some reckoning this is the end of the 2010s decade, so… Mike Peterson has linked to The Economist/Kal Best of the Decade page, so we’ll move on to CagleCartoons’ 2010 decade galleries. Gary McCoy Milt Priggee Rick McKee Bruce Plante Steve Sack Now […]
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Signe Wilkinson‘s Favorite cartoons of 2019. Phil Hands of the Wisconsin State Journal looks back at 2019 – with commentary. From the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Top Eight by David G. Brown. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a best of Steve Sack gallery behind a paywall. John Cole and the North […]
In our earlier roundup we linked to the Napa Valley Register‘s editors pick their favorite Clay Bennett cartoons from their supplier The Washington Post Writers Group. Here are The Register’s favorites from the rest of the WPWG stable. Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News Nick Anderson Mike Lester Jeff Danziger of The Rutland Herald […]
Aislin from the Montreal Gazette Steven Camley of Scotland’s The Herald Graeme MacKay of the Toronto Star looks at the local scene
The Seattle Times, taking a page from their past…A few years ago, when The Seattle Times was relocating from its old building on Fairview Avenue North and John Street, a pile of old editorial cartoons landed in my new Denny Way office. The artist, Sam Groff, who worked for The Seattle Times from 1935 to […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when political cartoonists pick their favorite cartoons from the past year.Earlier Mike Peterson linked to Ann Telnaes and Tom Toles selections from The Washington Post. But the WaPo also did another roundup:Every Saturday in print, The Post publishes a sampling of editorial cartoons from around the […]
The New Zealand Media Council, a self-regulatory body funded by industry, has ruled that the Garrick Tremain “spots” cartoon “has no redeeming qualities.”The New Zealand Media Council’s findings relating to the Tremain cartoon:Cartoonists employ wit, satire, exaggeration, caricature and humour to make a point.A few deft stokes of the pen and a few well-chosen words […]
As The Philadelphia Inquirer says:Check out the cartoons previewing 2020 by Alli Katz, Andrea Beizer, Tom Stiglich, Jim Hunt, Terry Laban, Jeff Curnow, Rob Tornoe, Al Goodwun, Greg Kearney, Meghan Turbitt, Peter Evans, and Box Brown.The Inquirer’s Currents section, where these cartoons appeared in print, features opinions and viewpoints to help you better understand the […]
December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020.
Vancouver Is Awesome, a part of the vast Glacier Media empire, has hired Geoff Coates as their weekly editorial cartoonist for the website.From V.I.A.’s introduction by editor Bob Kronbauer:I’m extremely proud to introduce you to our new (and first ever!) editorial cartoonist, the amazingly talented and witty Geoff Coates! If you recognize his name that’s either […]
Dozens of New Jersey towns have found too much lead in their drinking water. More than 1.5 million are affected. Cancer-linked chemicals have also been discovered around the state. This year, Newark found itself consumed by a lead water crisis — one that a new NJ Advance Media investigation finds may have been preventable. The […]
Phil Hands is the editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal and the only political cartoonist on staff for a newspaper in the state.Phil explains that his cartoon mind doesn’t stop when his 37 hour work week does.Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Phil Hands and supplies a slide show of cartoons discussed.