Joel Pett writing in the Sacramento Bee:This past year, as he battled his mystifying, excruciating disease, he became one of my closest and most admired friends. He tried to teach me things, big, important things about life’s priorities, the utter foolishness of wasting energy on, well, the things we all waste it on. I last […]
A public memorial will be held to honor the Sacramento Bee’s late editorial cartoonist Rex Babin who passed away on March 30 at the age of 49 after a year-long battle with cancer. The memorial service will include editorial cartoonists Joel Pett (Lexington Herald-Leader) and Jack Ohman (Portland Oregonian) as speakers. The event will be […]
Students at the University of Texas have started an online petition hoping to support the reinstatement of the campus paper’s cartoonist Stephanie Eisner who was fired after the paper ran her cartoon commenting on the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. She later apologized as did the paper. It should be noted […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and legendary editorial cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”) were named by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in a list of “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” The full list is the who’s-who of A-list journalists and writers.
An education fund has been set up for Rex Babin’s son through Bank of America and McClatchy Employees Credit Union. From the AAEC:There are now two ways to donate to the “Sebastian Babin Education Fund.” One account has been set up at the Bank of America, 555 Capitol Ave., Sacramento, 95814. Individuals wishing to contribute, […]
Rex’s cartoons sometimes were so different that I would wonder how the hell he got there. While I was dutifully executing a candidate standing at a lectern (boring, tedious), he might be meticulously rendering a 1700s Parisian street scene as a metaphor for the California budget. Oh, and there was a perfect Gov. Ahnolt in […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth said good bye to his readers yesterday after 40 years with the paper.Creed Black, my editor, was a moderate Republican. He’d not be welcome in today’s Republican Party, but that was a long time ago, in what seems like a far away galaxy. Creed would never tell me […]
I’ve learned that Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin passed away this morning after battling with cancer. His paper announced last March that he was taking a medical leave for two weeks, but the leave extended much longer. He still contributed cartoons up to the end. His last cartoon ran on March 4th.Rex was with […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be the 2012 commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis in May. Mike graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.“It is a great honor to have one of our most distinguished graduates serve as […]
From the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists comes news of the finalists for the 2011 National Newspaper Awards Finalists. This year’s finalists include: Marc Beaudet, Brian Gable and Bruce Mackinnon. Visit their website for sample cartoons .
Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey has been awarded the Governor’s Initiative for Volunteer Excellence (GIVE) for Outstanding Service by a Media Personality. The award recognizes Mississippi residents who “raise the bar in humanitarianism and servant leadership.” The report in the Clarion-Ledger doesn’t specify what volunteering Marshall has engaged in, but anyone who follows this blog […]
John Auchter, who draws editorial cartoons for the Grand Rapids Press (MI), has picked up a chain of papers to his client roster. Last month MLive Media Group consolidated print operations and hired John to do weekly cartoons to appear in The Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, and […]
When Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley found out his paper was going to pull last Thursday’s Doonesbury, he found a creative way to keep it in the paper – he used it in his editorial cartoon. Each week Pat posts a online-column called “Behind the Lines” wherein he and BYU economist Val Lambson […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has been told her job at the paper is no longer in danger. Last week, after Tony Auth announced he was leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer, we learned that Signe’s future was dependent on 10 other individuals taking a voluntary buy-out. Michael Cavna reports that while she and the […]
The Salt Lake Tribune decided to run this week’s Doonesbury, but at the last moment got cold feet with today’s “I thee rape” strip. Unsatisfied with the decision, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, Pat Bagley, found a unique solution – he put the strip in his editorial cartoon as seen below. For the non-locals: the hot-tub […]