Letters to the editor – cartoonists help fill the newspaper opinion pages. “The Girl Scouts are off limits” “Thanks a lot, Steve Breen, for…[putting] a damper on Girl Scout cookie sales” “Linking Girl Scouts to heart disease”Steve Breen: some things are sacred. “editorial leadership needs to exercise more sensitivity and discretion when choosing which cartoons to publish”Michael […]
Gannett rejected a takeover offer from Media News Group/Digital First this morning, and it did not do so politely.A letter from the Board of Directors expressed doubt that Digital First could come up with money to finance the offer. And Gannett added an unusual slam of the potential buyer. Based on Digital First’s cut-and-slash management […]
Charlie Daniel’s Sunday comic panel has ended.Rosy’s Diner by Charlie Daniel 2006(?) – February 3, 2019* weekly (Sunday) panel Knoxville News Sentinel*I’m not sure if the February 3, 2019 issue appeared in the print Knoxville News Sentinel or is web-only.Sussed from various articles it seems that the concept and characters of Rosy’s Diner first appeared […]
Glenn McCoy the early years:Right out of the gates of [Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville], Glenn was brought on as the Art Director at the Belleville News-Democrat. “I always secretly wanted to be a cartoonist, and when I saw the opportunity to start doing cartoons for the News-Democrat, that was sort of my entry point,” […]
Senator Lamar Alexander (R – Tennessee) honored editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel by reading a tribute to him into the Congressional Record today.As reported by the Knoxville News-Sentinel:U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Knoxville, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday about longtime News Sentinel cartoonist Charlie Daniel. … “For over six decades, Charlie’s drawings have been the first […]
Steve Kelley has responded to accusations that a number of his recent cartoons are misogynistic through NEXTpittsburgh and Andrew Conte:Last week, Kelley had agreed to sit down with me to talk about the three recent cartoons that have drawn objections. He then opted to cancel that interview and instead sent me a seven-page letter on Monday […]
While the firings of Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel and the hubbub over recent Steve Kelley cartoons have garnered the lion’s share of exposure, there is other news in the editorial cartooning profession. Walt Handelsman visited the University of New Orleans.Handelsman visited the Earl K. Long Library to talk about his experiences as a successful comic […]
The longstanding animus between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has now drug editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley into the conflict.The union has written a letter about what it calls are the “misogynistic editorial cartoons” of Steve Kelley’s that have recently appeared in the newspaper.Steve Kelley is not a member of the union […]
Gannett, continuing its recent actions, has cut loose dozens of journalists today including editorial cartoonists Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel.From Poynter:Another brutal day for journalism. Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to buy the […]
I was wronged. All I wanted was a trial by jury, a right enshrined in Anglo-Saxon legal tradition in the Magna Carta 903 years ago. Is this still America? No. America is dead.For me personally the ruling necessarily means bankruptcy and/or being forced to leave the United States so I can continue to earn a […]
Why Trump is Cartoonist’s Target-in-Chief“You pick on Trump way more than you picked on Obama.” I started wondering if these people were on to something. Trump officially marks the middle of his term Sunday, so I decided to go back and count the cartoons I’ve done on him over the past two years and compare […]
Cartoonist and artist Jeff Stahler is featured on the PBS show Broad & High. Equal parts about his cartooning career and his art career. It’s the first four and a half minute segment after the introduction. Editorial cartoonist and illustrator Randall Enos remembers a “typical evening at the [National] Cartoonists Society” about 60 years […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley is facing accusations of sexism after two cartoons in a row could be interpreted as portraying women as gold diggers. January 13, 2019 cartoonThe Pittsburgh City Paper has taken the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Steve Kelly to task for the cartoons:For the past two days, Pittsburgh readers looking for some […]
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil […]
Texas is the second largest state in terms of area and population, yet there are no Texas newspapers with staff editorial cartoonists. That is not to say there aren’t cartoonists plying their trade in the Lone Star State. Between El Paso and San Antonio and nearly a hundred miles south of the Pecos River, in […]