Editorial cartoonist Adrian Raeside posted on Facebook that due to budget cuts, his position was eliminated at the Victoria Times Colonist.He writes:Sad news. After 36 years of drawing editorial cartoons for the Victoria Times Colonist, I was terminated on Friday, a victim of budget cuts. I will miss the many loyal TC readers I had […]
Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has been heading up The Nib at Medium has announced that he’s walking away and taking The Nib with him. Medium gave me a great opportunity to build something huge and a freedom to operate that you don?t see very often in online media, especially when it comes to comics. I […]
Maine Governor Paul LePage wrote a handwritten note to Nick Danby, son of Bangor Daily News’s editorial cartoonist George Danby, to apologize for earlier remarks saying he wanted to shoot the editorial cartoonist. The Governor was widely criticized and condemned for the remark. According to The Maine Sun Journal, Nick not only accepted the apology, […]
Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed posted a photo on his Facebook account teasing a return to his iconic comic strip. Berkeley’s pos simply said, “A return after 25 years. Feels like going home.” (see screenshot below). He later posted the finished cartoon for the strip on the screen:There’s no confirmed information about whether Bloom County […]
The Kickstarter campaign to create a two-volume compilation of This Modern World to mark the 25th anniversary of Tom Tomorrow’s work raised $87,000 in less than 24 hours and with 26 more days left in the campaign has raised over $132,000 as of this writing. Raising money at that pace, Dan Perkins (the real name […]
The Society of Illustrators has inducted two cartoonists to the Hall of Fame: Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit and editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Writing the introduction to Pat, Political journalist P. J. O?Rourke writes:But when the people who are wielding the swords can be made to look ridiculous?asleep like Leonid Brezhnev, a Wall Street plutocrat so […]
French cartoonist Jean Plantureux (AKA Plantu) has been acquitted of accusations of inciting hatred by a French appeals court. The accusations stem from a cartoon (below) that depicted Pope Benedict XVI having sex with a child.The New York Times:A lower court acquitted Plantu last year, saying the cartoon came out at a time of increasing […]
Monday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich defaced a $10 bill while discussing and commenting on the recent news of the Treasury announcing future $10 bills will feature a woman. I won’t spoil the ending, you’ll have to click through the image below and watch the video.Federal law prohibits mutilating or disfiguring U.S. currency and […]
The video below of editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies was posted yesterday. I suspect the actual air date might have been much earlier. Either way… here’s… Jimmy!
The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued an apology to Hartford Courant editorial cartoonist Bob Englehart for reposting a plagiarized cartoon that they found on Twitter. Bob’s original cartoon (below) was drawn in reaction to calls to remove the Confederate Flag.Below is the cartoon someone swiped and heavily altered including removing his signature and posted […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonist has issued a call for a public apology by Maine Gov. Paul Le Page, who speaking at a youth leadership event stated that he’d like to shoot Bangor Daily News cartoonist George Danby. George’s son Nick was one of the youth leaders in attendance that night.Here’s the statement from […]
ABC7, an ABC affiliate for the greater Washington DC area, recently looked into the cartoon plagiarism of the Montgomery Sentinel. The report was mostly reporting the paper’s position that they’ve taken corrective action and are moving past the issue and Councilman Tom Moore, who exposed the paper. Here’s the report:At this point, it’s clear the […]
Congratulations to The Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel who will be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.From the The Indianapolis Star:Nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate, Varvel counts graphic-novel projects “Path to Hope” (2010) and “The Father Factor” (2012) among his career highlights at The Star. The former addressed child poverty, while the […]
From the Huffington Post:Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that he’d like to shoot the cartoonist for the Bangor Daily News, a joke that fell flat in light of the January shooting that killed five Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in France. LePage made his comments about cartoonist George Danby on Wednesday in front of a […]
So a really cool thing is in the works – not just in the works, it is happening this January. National Cartoonists Society Foundation President Steve McGarry has organized a week-long Caribbean Cartoonist Celebrity Cruise. These aren’t just B-rated or has-been cartoonist “celebrities”, we’re talking four Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonists (two of which have been […]