We’re in full awards season now. The latest announcement is the results of the Best of the West contest. The Best of the West is a journalism contest for papers, magazines and news websites operating in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In the category […]
Ted Rall:The New Yorker is terrible for cartooning because it prints a lot of awful cartoons, and uses its reputation in order to elevate terrible work as the profession?s platinum standard. They pay pretty well. Which prompts too many talented artists, who under a better economic and media model would produce interesting, intelligent, great cartoons […]
The news of Mike Ritter has hit the AAEC community hard. Watching the outpouring on personal blogs, Twitter and Facebook has been inspiring. Not long after Mike came out of the closet, he dropped off the radar ceasing all contact with friends and his past life in Arizona and resurfaced in Georgia. From reports, a […]
Congratulations are in order to Detroit Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson who took first place in the 80th National Headliner Awards. The award recognizes the best in journalism in several categories.Second place this year goes to Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Nate Beeler with third place going to syndicated cartoonist Stuart Carlson (formerly of the Milwaukee […]
GA Voice Art Director, former Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president and former East Valley Tribune and Scottsdale Tribune editorial cartoonist Mike Ritter has passed at the age of 48. His death was sudden and reportedly related to a recent surgery. (Correction: GA Voice Twitter account is stating that Mike died last night after emergency […]
WGBH has posted an hour long video of Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich talking about his job as an editorial cartoonist with the AJC.It’s an hour long, but it’s highly entertaining.
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the division awards for the 68th Annual NCS Reuben Awards. Looking through the different categories, I certainly have my favorites and hopefuls. Overall, strong contenders in each division. The winners will be announced during the annual Reuben Awards dinner Memorial Day weekend. Best of luck to all the nominees!Editorial […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley talks about Utah politics with reporter Bryan Schott. The political spectrum here in Utah skews heavily toward conservative Republicans and by skews I mean Utah is essentially a one party system. Brian claims that Pat is the “defacto ‘opposition’ to the Republicans on Utah?s Capitol Hill because Utah’s […]
From Ken Shepherd of NewsBusters: Editors of the Saturday Washington Post’s Free for All section published three angry missives from readers wishing to censor the conservative-leaning cartoon strip Prickly City. Obviously Knopf, Ushers, and Brooks are all entitled to their opinions, but it’s curious as to why the Post decided to give them a platform […]
Lee Salem, perhaps one of the most influential individuals in newspaper comics in the last 30 years, officially enters retirement today. He stepped down as Universal Uclick president last year taking the title of president emeritus and editorial director. Some of the talent that Lee discovered and fostered include the biggest names in comics: Garry […]
Malaysian authorities aren’t happy with an editorial cartoonist by Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, AKA Zunar, drew a cartoon that was posted on Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog. The cartoon is critical to the Malaysian government’s slow response to the missing airline. From the Jakarta Post:Head of politics, security, and international affairs cluster, Professor Dr. Mohamed Mustafa […]
The Advocate newspaper in Pictou, N.S. has issued an apology for a cartoon that they ran depicting a Nazi swastika flag flying over the Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Readers found the cartoon offensive.In part the paper’s apology included these lines: The cartoon was simply meant as a satire, or exaggeration, on Harper?s Economic Action Plan […]
From Al Arabiya News: Ghanem was accused at the criminal court in Oran last month of insulting the president, with the prosecution demanding an 18-month prison sentence and a 30,000 dirham (280 euro) fine. The complaint was filed by his own employer, pro-regime daily La Voix de l?Oranie (Voice of the Oran Region), for a […]
Steve Breen posted the photo below on Facebook with the caption: “Renowned Irish singer and Bono.”In an email, he tells me that the Bono in the photo is an impersonator – a dead-ringer if you ask me.But Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, did meet a REAL celebrity. He writes on his blog that while touring […]
Our local CBS news station did a great profile interview with Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley.