Darren Rovell writing on ESPN.com: The slow demise of old media, and lack of funds by newspapers and magazines, has pushed many cartoonists to the curb. Not Tornoe. “It’s not that cartoons are less relevant than before,” Tornoe said. “They’re actually more popular. You just have to figure out how to distribute your content.” This […]
Dana Summers, editorial cartoonist for the Orlando Sentinel, announced on Facebook he was laid off from the paper due to cutbacks. Jim Romenesko reports that that several Sentinel employees, including Dana, took a buyout. Dana mentions that he’ll continue to syndicate editorial cartoons through his syndicate and focus on his two comic strips Bound and […]
Asia Society interviews The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher. Your 1984 Economist cover of Indira Gandhi led to a nationwide suppression of the magazine. Has anything else you’ve drawn ever met with that kind of censorship – and does an editorial cartoonist feel any kind of pride when his work clearly touches a nerve […]
The Vancouver Province sports cartoonist Bob Krieger announced he’s drawn his last cartoon for the paper but will be reassigned to work on the web desk along with editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy. Bob tells me the paper is short staffed so both he and Dan were reassigned as “the best way to manage resources.”This is […]
Daryl Cagle kicks off an Indiegogo campain to raise money for Bill Day who lost his job with the Memphis Commercial Appeal back in 2009. Daryl added up Bill to his line-up of syndicated cartoonists in 2011. Now we learn that Bill is close to losing his home. From the campaign description: Our goal is […]
Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors’s Kickstarter campaign to fund a book collection of his work (Life Begins At Incorporation: cartoons and essays) has been fully funded. At this writing (with seven hours left) he’s raised just under $35,000. Having exceeded the original $20,000 goal, he’s promised a second book for those who contribute another $17 to […]
A recent cartoon by The Guardian’s editorial cartoonist Steve Bell is being attacked as antisemitic. The cartoon depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a puppet-master controlling Foreign Secretary William Hague and Tony Blair.A complaint has been lodged with Press Complaints Commission alleging the cartoon as “plainly antisemitic.” The Community Security Trust, a British charity […]
Australian cartoonist David Pope was honored with this year’s highest award given by the Australian Cartoonists’ Association: the Gold Stanley Award for cartoonist of the year. He was also honored in two other categories best caricaturist and best editorial political cartoonist. David is the editorial cartoonist for The Canberra Times.From The Canberra Times: Association president […]
Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg’s Success in Comics seminar is heading to the east coast. The last two events were in Las Vegas. The duo is taking the show to Annapolis, MD February 16-17th. The line up looks top notch too. Chad Carpenter – Third time speaker, creator of Tundra the most widely self-syndicated strips […]
Stephanie McMillan’s graphic journalism book, “The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement” is now available. The book is about the Wall Street Movement, in fact you might have seen parts of it over on Cartoon Movement.
New York Magazine: The acclaimed cartoonist, author, playwright, and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth says he’s staying in Southampton for good. Of the city, he says, “You begin each day coping. There’s a kind of built-in abrasiveness living in the city. You wake up and you start dealing with the events of the day. If […]
Yesterday I posted cartoons from the candidate’s “hometown” editorial cartoonists. Today, Jos Valdman writing in the Herald Sun looks at a few non-American editorial cartoons about the election results.Here’s a cartoon by Mark Knight of the Herald Sun.
As I watched the results roll in last night, I wondered how the hometown editorial cartoonists for the presidential candidates approached the win. President Obama is from Chicago, so let’s head over to Scott Stantis at The Chicago Tribune. Stantis is a conservative cartoonist who went for poignancy. When it comes to the “hometown” of […]
As we stretch into the last day of campaigning and political debating, I want to point you to a couple of examples of left and right cartoonists dueling it out. I’m sure there are others.Liberal cartoonist Matt Bors debated with conservative cartoonist Glenn McCoy via Twitter. The event was moderated by GoComics. Matt has posted […]
The Sacramento Bee has announced that it has hired former Oregonian editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman to fill the position left by the untimely death of Rex Babin who died in March of this year. Jack tells me that the move was a “perfect storm of luck” between an employee buyout offer at the Oregonian and […]