Filed under: Editorial cartooning

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis announces that fellow cartoonist Dick Locher is retiring after 40 years with the Tribune. Dick’s career as an editorial cartoonist began inexplicably in 1973 when he was offered the staff cartoonist position at the Chicago Tribune even though he had no experience in the job. (He had assisted on […]

Jim Romenesko has details on a lawsuit filed against Cagle Cartoons Inc. and Daryl Cagle by one of his employees Cari Dawson Bartley. The suit appears to be an issue of compensation.From Romenesko: When Plaintiff began her employment with Defendants, she was paid on an hourly basis. Over the past four (4) years, Plaintiff was […]

Yolanda Johnson Bryant interviews editorial cartoonist Kerry G. Johnson who is also an art director, caricaturist, cartoonist and graphic designer. Listen to internet radio with ymjauthor on BlogTalkRadio

Tim Cavanaugh, of The Daily Caller gives a good summary of the controversy surrounding a recent Steve Benson that casts the GOP in the same light as the Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. The cartoon (above) depicts the GOP has holding three women hostage. Each of the women are labeled “No Abortion Rights,” “No Reproductive Coverage” […]

The pro-gun news web site Ammoland did a bit of Photoshopping recently to recreate a Mike Peters anti-NRA editorial cartoon into one with the exact opposite message and posted it on Facebook.Here’s Mike’s original cartoon:And the blatant rework:Mike tells me this isn’t the first time someone has altered his work and to recreate it to […]

KBIA, Missouri Public Radio, interviewed Former AAEC President and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore and Dr. Robert Russell, executive director of Cartoonists Rights Network International regarding censorship in editorial cartooning around the world and “a profession experiencing a major transition.”

We’re still in award season. To our north, the National Newspaper Awards have been announced. This year’s winner in editorial cartooning is Serge Chapleau of Montreal La Presse. Runners-up include Andy Donato of the Toronto Sun and Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail.

Buzzfeed has a post by Victor Navasky and his summary of 15 of the most influential cartoons from around the world. No. 10:In more than 30 years at the helm of The Nation, only once (in the spring of 1984) did the staff march on my office with a petition (signed by 25 people in […]

While I was locked out of my blog last week, a number of important news items popped up and I wasn’t able post them. Here’s the wrap up of some of the news I wanted to post last week: Daryl Cagle responds to the criticism that by switching positions (and changing a cartoon) that he’s […]

(Click to see larger view.)Singapore cartoonist Leslie Chew was arrested last week after complaints that the cartoon published through Facebook was ?racially insensitive?. From The Wall Street Journal: According to Mr. Choo, the artist was questioned by police over a cartoon published on March 27. The cartoon criticized the government?s treatment of the city-state?s ethnic […]

A new documentary on the work of Herblock debuted last weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Atlantic has a good write up of Herblock and the documentary. Entertainment Weekly has video of Jon Stewart extolling the power that Herblock had with his pen. In his slugfest with McCarthy, however, Herblock took an incredible risk, […]

The Overseas Press Club of America has posted video of the acceptance speech of this year?s Thomas Nast Award winner Rob Rogers.Via Michael Cavna

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry wrote a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee demanding an apology from the paper for running a Jack Ohman cartoon depicting Perry boasting of booming business followed by a depiction of an explosion. The governor claimed it was “mocking the tragic deaths” of those who died in […]

Texas Governor Rick Perry has demanded an apology from the Sacramento Bee after it ran a cartoon by their cartoonist Jack Ohman depicting the Texas governor boasting of booming business followed by a depiction of an explosion. Last week, a fertilizer plant explosion killed 14 people in the Lone Star State.In a letter to the […]