An Malaysian Appeals Court has lifted a ban on books by editorial cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar). Zunar’s books were seized during an arrest in 2012. The cartoonist was charged with sedition. From the Malaysian Insider:“With respect, this is a case where the law of sedition is being used as a convenient peg to […]
Last August, Ed Stein announced he was ending his long-running strip Freshly Squeezed (which was an extension of Denver Square) and hinted that he was gearing up for another project. Yesterday he posted news that the new project was a webcomic.From Ed:In the next few weeks (I hope) I?ll launch the first installments of Sleeper […]
For those of you interested in comic history, make sure you check out this new book by Michael Kahn and Rich West called Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be – a coffee table book about the political satire and cartoon magazine “Puck” that was published between 1871 until 1918.Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson pens […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba has reached the 25 year milestone with The World-Herald – his local paper where he grew up. Michael Kelly, the paper’s columnist wrote a profile on him:Michael: On the day I checked in, the 53-year-old Koterba?s bicycle was parked outside his seventh-floor cubicle at the downtown Omaha World-Herald Building. A few […]
Last week’s cartoon by Jerry Holbert placed the cartoonist in an awkward position of either admitting he created a cartoon with an historically racist reference OR plead ignorance of the connection between watermelon and African-Americans such as President Obama. Jerry went with ignorance. But that wasn’t credible to a lot of people. Here’s the cartoon […]
From the Times of India Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post: “The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries.” … Rosenthal said Heng “was in no way trying to impugn India, […]
Both Jerry Holbert and his newspaper are officially apologizing for the cartoon that ran on Wednesday featuring a man (presumably someone who had breached the White House) asking the president if he had tried watermelon flavored toothpaste. The cartoon has gone viral. Jerry took to the Boston Herald’s radio podcast to explain how he ended […]
A cartoon by Jerry Holbert that ran yesterday in the Boston Herald has people speechless and wondering how it even made it into the paper. Here’s the cartoon as it ran in the Herald (online and print):A less offensive version has been posted on GoComics (and I assume the one sent out to his syndicate […]
If you read Mike Peters’s touching tribute to the late Tony Auth, you know they had a deep friendship. Late last week, Mike posted a two part interview he did with Tony for the program “The World of Cartooning.”Part 1 Part 2
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is putting word out that they’re extending out the registration deadline for their Satire Fest convention in two weeks. By registering now instead of at the door, attendees are assured free drink tickets, food and goodie bags.Also announced is the inclusion of The Simpsons director David Silverman who will […]
For those of us who are attending the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning vicariously, here are sources to watch:The official blog.Mike Peterson has a great post about the cartoonists gathering for the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Attending cartoonist Twitter accounts (some are more verbose than others): Mike Cope John Hambrock Rick Stromoski Terri Libenson Tom Racine […]
Check out Newsday cartoonist Matt Davies ink and color his cartoon. Always in awe of those who color by hand.
A big thanks goes out to Universal Uclick for sponsoring the blog this week. Universal is the owner of GoComics, the largest comics portal in the world with some of the most recognized and famous comics (and webcomics). The portal itself has over a billion (with a B) page views a year. That?s a lot […]
Nick Anderson with other contestants vying for Hottest Bachelor in Houston. Click for larger, shirtless (and tan line) magic.When an editorial cartoonist wins the Pulitzer, they’re assured their obituary’s first line will mention it. But if voting goes well for Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson, perhaps he’ll be better known as Hottest Bachelor in […]
Venezuelan editorial cartoonist Rayma Suprani has allegedly been fired for depicting former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s signature flat-lining on an electrocardiograph as a way to depict the country’s national health care system.From the New York Times:El Universal representatives were unavailable for comment on Thursday. One newspaper employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cartoonist […]