Editorial cartoonist Donna Barstow is allegedly asking Google to delist sites that have posted her cartoons – most notably a particular site that posted it to critique it. From Boing Boing: Now, nearly 18 months on, Barstow apparently used Google’s takedown tool to request that it remove links to former federal prosecutor Ken “Popehat” White’s […]
Michael Cavna reports on last Friday’s Cartoons and Cocktails gala in Washington DC which raised $20k by auctioning off 160 or so original editorial cartoons. The proceeds goes to the National Press Club.Among the notable pieces auctioned off was Pat Bagley’s cartoon of Malala Yousafzai (see below). The original cartoon was auctioned off earlier this […]
Fascinating story out of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Tom Engelhardt cartoon that was published in 1963 just hours before President Kennedy was shot. The cartoon depicted Kennedy in Texas, in a box, between shooters. Worst possible timing of a cartoon ever.The newspaper, realizing the cartoon had already been sent out, dispatched their trucks […]
/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]
Fox News profiles Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”): Shapiro, 55, has made a career of stripping away taboos and artifice with satire. Sometimes he gets sued, most notably by President Jacob Zuma. The Mandela cartoon in April for The Times, a South African newspaper, was one of his gentler efforts and a commentary on a nation that […]
Just a reminder if you’ve not yet donated or even if you have, any new donors this week or if any of the previous donors increase their donation by $10, I’ll send you the eBook I’m creating containing my best cartoons. Most of you probably haven’t seen my work.Here’s a sample of my cartoons.Editorial cartoons […]
Signe Wilkinson was mugged at gun-point last Sunday about a block from her house. The mugger demanded her purse and claimed to have a gun which Signe believed to be true. The purse the mugger made off with was actually a canvas bag that Signe was carrying filled with pens, paper and sketches of her […]
The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has a dizzy array of gigs lined up – some of which will take him across the world. The Economist is heading out on an international tour called “The Year in 2014.” KAL will traveling with the tour to Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai. That last stop […]
I told everyone to get to this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art in Columbus. With the grand opening of the Billy Ireland Library and Museum and the duly deserved praise for the library’s founder Lucy Shelton Caswell, this was the year to be there. But alas, I couldn’t be there myself and had to jealously […]
Last month news broke that Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne was being reassigned as an editorial page writer and no longer a staff cartoonist. According to Deadline Detroit, Henry also being tasked with the paper’s auto critic.Here’s a snippet from the announcement by Business Editor Joanna Firestone (which if you read the whole thing […]
Conservative editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis has changed his position on same-sex marriage. The Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist ran a cartoon last week depicting Abraham Lincoln holding a rainbow colored flag in response to Illinois state lawmakers approving same-sex marriage for their state. He states that he had always been protective of the sanctity of marriage, […]
Time Magazine looks at the success of Matt Bors in the comic world.“I’m a lot more interested in breaking out from this little rectangle,” Bors said in a recent interview. His style demonstrates this well: Bors uses rich colors and strays from the standard white background that has become so ubiquitous in his craft. He […]
The New Orleans Advocate has announced that it has hired editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman away from Newsday. Here’s Walt talking about his decision to return to Louisiana, where he used to work for the Times-Picayune prior to moving to New York. ?A few years ago at a Tulane art fair, I purchased a brass skeleton […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association’s Stanley Awards are being held this weekend. They have six divisions or categories with top honor being the Cartoonist of the Year. This year the nominees are:Peter Broelman, political cartoonist Pat Campbell, The Canberra Times Anton Emdin, MAD magazine contributor Glen Le Lievre, The Age and SMH contributor David Pope, The […]