Filed under: Editorial cartooning

Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich presented a TEDx talk back in April.

NPR looks at how the recent cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed in Charlie Hebdo are affecting cartoonists around the world. Good question with answers from Matt Wuerker, Mark Fiore, Daryl Cagle, Patrick Chappatte and Terry Mosher (AKA: Aislin). I think a lot of us are kind of horrified,“ says Matt Wuerker, Politico’s staff cartoonist […]

Daryl Cagle announces he’s going to France for an editorial cartoon festival at St. Just le Martel where he will exhibit his work and speak. What’s notable about the announcement to me isn’t his travels but his description of the festival itself. I’ve heard about St. Just for years, and this is my first time […]

The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning kicks off in two more days. The festival’s founder, Anne Morse-Hambrock, has an amazing line-up of guests. Below is an interview she gave with the local WUWM radio about the festival and cartoonists.

The Latern profiles Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle.He catches a lot of flack for daring to not be Republican in Texas. “There’s a lot of people here that cannot stand me, wondering why the newspaper has a staff cartoonist that’s out of step with Texas politics. It’s a lot more […]

The surrender and arrest of Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition has become a big story in many publications here in the US. Aseem was scheduled to be here in the US at The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to receive The Cartoonist Rights Network International Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award but […]

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for The Economist, attended the Democratic National Convention and posted this video on the changes in presidential caricatures before and after the first term in office.

A recent Gary McCoy editorial cartoon featuring Georgetown Law School graduate Sandra Fluke has sparked outrage among readers. And in characteristic Gary style, he’s confused at the outrage.Here’s the cartoon in question: Daryl Cagle asked him to respond to critics of the cartoon. Gary writes: Why is it that a group of people so adept […]

This year’s Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award winner (awarded by Cartoonists Rights Network International) Aseem Trivedi has agreed to surrender to police sometime in the next couple of days. He has been charged for sedition under a 2005 law that prohibits insulting Indian national symbols and emblems. Last December cartoons created by Aseem were displayed […]

Daryl Cagle is out and about, this time lecturing in Mumbai India:“Cartoons are a great barometer of freedom. If a cartoonist can draw the president, then that’s a free press” said noted American Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle. Daryl, currently the editorial cartoonist at NBC News, was in the city on Friday as part of a […]

CBS News profiled Matt Wuerker about his cartoons for Politico – the beltway newspaper. Wuerker said he has heard from the people he satirizes. He recalled a cartoon attacking Donald Rumsfeld during the Iraq War: “I got an email from a colonel in the Pentagon who said that [Secretary Rumsfeld] had seen the cartoon and […]

The Dallas Morning News has an article by Mike Peters (but not MG&G Mike Peters) about how several cartoonists’ caricatures of President Obama has evolved over the course of his first term: “It’s subconscious, but the way a cartoonist draws a politician does change over time as the cartoonist’s impression of that politician changes,” said […]

Michael Cavna writes that with the upcoming Baltimore Comic-Con, Small Press Expo and the The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists “#!&%!! Cartoons – a Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon” – the DC area will be a hub of cartooning events in September. The Washington region has perhaps never seen such a cluster of Cartoonus northamericanus. […]

Using Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest Universal Uclick has created three social media channels for specific liberal and conservative political content for the election season. GoComics, a part of Universal Uclick, has developed new Facebook pages and Twitter accounts where fans of these political leanings can receive focused comics that they are apt to share. These […]

PBS videos Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and Scott Stantis (Chicago Tribune) engaged in a “draw off.”