Lalo Alcaraz was awarded the SoCal Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning from the Los Angeles Press Club on June 30, 2019.D7. EDITORIAL CARTOON Lalo Alcaraz, Andrews McMeel Syndication, “Prototypes Exhibit in Mexico” https://www.gocomics.com/laloalcaraz/2018/12/28 Judges’ comment: This was just funny. The best editorial cartoons are often the ones that make us laugh hardest, and this one […]
What happens when you get Federalists Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (and John Jay?) together with anti-Federalists Patrick Henry and Sam Adams, and then choose Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis as the moderator?In this case the result is a seven and a half minute animated version of the birth of The Constitution.[Scott] said when […]
[Greg Perry] who was set to replace Michael de Adder at Brunswick News Inc. says he no longer wants to work for the company and asked that his cartoons be kept off the editorial pages of its newspapers.Greg Perry has told CBC that he has been attacked and maligned on social media after Brunswick News […]
It seems the unthinkable has happened, MAD magazine will shut down.Tom Spurgeon broke the news hearing of the demise but acknowledging it was unconfirmed.Now Evan Dorkin has confirmed the news. MAD began in 1952 with Harvey Kurtzman in charge and a stellar cast of artists. It soon changed to a magazine format, and not long after […]
Matt Wuerker and Ann Telnaes, in association with Jenny Robb and Lucy Caswell, are going to try put together a small book/bookazine/catalogue based on the current Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and The First Amendment exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.Matt is asking for some help in gathering material for the project:Hi guys— […]
The reaper came for another editorial cartoonist over the weekend. above: Karl Wimer, 2009 Essays marking the decline of editorial cartooning have been perennial since 1954, when the Saturday Review’s Henry Ladd Smith declared the form trite and exhausted. But we are now really entering the end times of the editorial cartoon.Politico joins the chorus preaching […]
It was reported Friday that First Look Media made the decision to end funding for The Nib along with shuttering the web magazine Topic.com at the end of July. That is true and something that I’ve been dealing with the results of for a few weeks now. That leaves me writing yet another post on […]
You can still find them online so political cartoons aren’t yet extinct. But they are doomed.A century ago newspapers employed more than 2000 full-time editorial cartoonists. Today there are fewer than 25. In the United States, political cartooning as we know it is dead. If you draw editorial cartoons for a living and you have […]
In a burst of ebullient laughter, editorial cartoonist Nathan Archer confesses he always wanted to be Benny the Cab from “Roger Rabbit.” Today, he likens himself more to Disney’s Goofy.Archer got his start making editorial cartoons for the Tallahassee Democrat in 2016. His day begins with scanning headlines and looking for intersections between news stories […]
above: the June 29, 2019 Vindicator headline (via Newseum)Just days after celebrating its sesquicentennial The Vindicator of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it will cease publication at the end of August 2019.Betty H. Brown Jagnow, Publisher and Mark A. Brown, General Manager notified readers: On June 25, 2019, The Vindicator turned 150 years old – a […]
From Micheal de Adder via Twitter and Facebook:The highs and lows of cartooning. Today I was just let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick.Michael de Adder was born, raised, and educated in New Brunswick province and was a regular presence in its newspapers. Brunswick News Inc., which owns the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, the Moncton […]
A message from Matt Bors about The Nib:I have some important news about the future of The Nib and I wanted you to know first. After three and a half years, First Look Media has decided to no longer fund The Nib at the end of July and me and my team will be let […]
This month, The New York Times fired its two cartoonists, Patrick Chappatte and Heng Kim Song, who drew for the international edition. This wasn’t a cost-cutting measure. I believe it was a response to the outrage The Times received in April after the international editions printed an anti-Semitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
U. S. Representive Duncan Hunter (CA. – San Diego County) is asking for a change in venue for his trial, involving alleged misuse of campaign funds, at least in part due to Steve Breen‘s political cartoons for the San Diego Union-Tribune.From Politico:In another motion filed Monday, Hunter’s defense asked that the upcoming trial be moved […]
Highlights, the magazine for young children, has issued a statement concerning the conditions under which immigrant children are suffering as they are detained by the United States.At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world’s most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children & threats of […]