This year’s Best of the West award for editorial cartooning goes to Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee. The award honors those in the Western United States for journalistic excellence and promote freedom of information.Regarding Jack’s work, the judges wrote:?Masterfully conceived and expertly rendered, Jack Ohman?s work reflects a cartoonist at the top of his […]
From The Malay Mail:Controversial cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, popularly known as Zunar, has been recognised by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) for his fight to uphold freedom of expression. The international non-governmental organisation?s Asia division deputy director Phil Robertson told Malay Mail Online that Zunar will be receiving a cash prize to help him battle […]
Great news from Cartoon Brew:Mexican-American political cartoonist and La Cucaracha comic creator Lalo Alcaraz made an announcement on Twitter yesterday: he?s been hired to work on Pixar?s just-announced Day of the Dead feature Coco. Alcaraz did not make clear whether he will work on the upcoming Lee Unkrich-directed film as an outside consultant or in-house […]
The State (Columbia, SC) has rehired full-time its long-time editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail. Robert resigned from the paper in 2009 when his position was cut to part-time. He had been at the paper since 1984. The paper made the announcement in July as part of “an ongoing initiative to strengthen print and digital coverage.”With his […]
Hamilton Spectator editorial cartoonist Graeme MacKay has been on a tear this week chasing after a Twitter account (@HarpersGotaGo) that was allegedly taking editorial cartoons, removing the artist’s signatures, scrubbing out any original dialog and replacing it with his/her own wording to completely change the original cartoon’s meaning. @HarpersGotaGo appears to be politically driven account […]
Great interview from 1993 with the legendary Herbert Block (Herblock) regarding his career and his work.
Jeff Koterba, the editorial cartoonist for Omaha World Herald, has an exhibit of his work that opens September 11 and runs through October 10. The exhibit is entitled “Drawing Many Sides: Cartoons by Jeff Koterba“. If you’re in the Ohama area, the exhibit is at Gallery 72.
The Herblock Foundation is sponsoring a new category in The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’s annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Three $1000 scholarships will be awarded to teens for their “outstanding drawings, illustrations, or animated short films offering commentary on current events or political topics.”From the press release:The Alliance for Young Artists & […]
Cartoonists Rights Network International has bestowed its 2015 Courage in Cartooning award to Iranian artist, activist Atena Farghadani.From CRNI: CRNI’s 2015 Courage in Cartooning award is being given to Iranian artist-activist Atena Farghadani. Ms. Farghadani was jailed in Tehran in August of 2014 after publishing a cartoon in protest of proposed legislation that would restrict […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has released a statement calling for an independent investigation of the audio tape that the LAPD provided to the LA Times that resulted in the newspaper’s decision to end its relationship with columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall.Here’s the full statement:The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists board calls for […]
The LA Times has run a notice to readers that they will not run any more work by editorial cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall after the LA Police Department releases an audio recording rebutting claims of an interaction between Ted and a police officer over a jay walking ticket in which Ted claims he was […]
Longtime Washington Times editorial cartoonist Bill Garner has passed away.From his paper:Bill Garner stopped drawing political cartoons for The Washington Times six years ago, but he never stopped being an artist. He had several showings of his paintings at an Annapolis gallery. He would sketch passers-by as his wife Patricia Garner did mall-walking. Sometimes people […]
J.D. Crowe explains why Donald Trump is a brilliant candidate for U.S. president.
David Horsey, political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times talks about his approach to the art of caricature.