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 […]
Over the weekend, cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall released what he describes as “enhanced” audio of the recording provided to the LA Times by the LAPD refuting claims Ted made in an online column he wrote on May 11 describing an “ugly scene” created by police while giving him a jaywalking ticket in 2001. Ted […]
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.
From the Washington Post:“We have drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever one wants,” said Laurent Sourisseau, in an interview this week with Stern, a German magazine. But Sourisseau, who goes by the cartoonist nickname “Riss,” said that it was not Charlie Hebdo’s intent to be “possessed” by its critique of […]
From the Houston Chronicle:Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist, will receive the Art in Service of the Environment Award from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club on Saturday, July 18, 2015 in Addison, TX. This award is given to an individual or group for an outstanding work of art in any medium or […]
You heard it here first. Rock stars often have strict photography rules for journalists attending concerts they’re reporting on. A Quebec newspaper decided to send their cartoonist instead of a photographer.PetaPixel reports:The Washington City Paper recently decided to boycott the Foo Fighters? restrictive concert photo contract by buying photos from fans instead. Now a different […]