The accusation of plagiarism has raised it’s ugly head and is looking at Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler. According to Jim Romenesko, a headline by Andy Borowitz ran last Thursday stating, “New Study Finds iPad is Cure for Adultery; Owners ‘Stop Noticing Other People Altogether” is eerily similar to a cartoon Jeff ran three […]
Josh Ferrin, the 2004 Locher Award winner, recently relocated back to Salt Lake City and this week closed on the purchase of a house. This weekend he went up into the attic and found several old ammunition cases filled with money. An estimated $50,000 squirreled away by the previous owner who passed away last November. […]
Dick Locher, Richard Thompson and Peter Dunlap-Shohl all have one thing in common – they all have Parkinson’s Disease. Michael Cavna talks to Peter about how deals with the disease’s effects on his motor skills.At the same time, the Internet was changing publishing. I decided that I would start a Parkinson?s blog illustrated with my […]
A bit of industry honors about our editorial cartoonist friends up north. Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail is the winner of this year’s National Newspaper Award. Finalists for the big award include Serge Chapleau of the La Presse (Montreal) and Terry Mosher (AKA “Aislin“) of the Gazette (Montreal).
An editorial cartoon by Free Lance-Star editorial cartoonist Clay Jones was prominently discussed on a recent Rachel Maddow program discussing reaction to who gets credit for Osama Bin Laden’s death. You can see the segment below. When I contacted Clay for reaction, he mentioned the cartoon was rejected by his editor for the paper but […]
Lee Judge who is the Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist and blogs about the KC Royals recently wrote:About a month ago, I wrote that Wilson Betemit should be willing to get hit by a pitch (it was an 81-mph slider) with the bases loaded in a tie game. Then I started thinking ? what if […]
Not sure how I missed this one, but a hearty congrats to Mike Peters nonetheless. Mike was honored with the 72nd annual Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for best editorial cartooning on international affairs. This is the second big prize of the year. He was honored with this year’s National Headliner Awards. In an […]
Phil Hands, editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, was featured on a local news segment about his work and process. Runs about 5 minutes.
Check out Jeff Stahler featured in a short documentary about editorial cartoonist. Directed and Edited by Amanda H. Cook. Music by Nickel Creek.INK. from Amanda H. Cook on Vimeo.via: Mike Lynch
Can’t think of a better place to get the first cartoonist’s reactions to the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead than Cagle’s site. He’s started the collection.Here’s Brian Fairrington’s cartoon. Check out Cagle’s site for more.Daryl has also posted a “Best of Bin Laden“
Today on NPR, Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich joins Steven Hess, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss political caricatures of President Obama after a lady in Orange County photoshopped a picture of a Obama over the face of a family of monkeys. For the backstory, check out this LA Times:Marilyn Davenport […]
Ted Rall, a cartoonist who needs no introduction, is auctioning off his cartooning services to the highest bidder. Ted posted himself on eBay stating that he’ll draw the auction winner a cartoon on any subject they want – with some caveats. The winner picks the topic, but Ted is free to approach the topic any […]
I broke the news last week that Gary Varvel would be this year’s Robert F. Kennedy award for editorial cartooning and now it is official. The award is given to journalists to recognize their work on human rights, social justice, and the power of individuals to make a difference. Varvel’s 11-part series, “The Path of […]
Daryl Cagle has written an interesting post about the perceived value of editorial cartoons on the web.With the poor performance of their artist-name cartoons page, there was no way I could convince the Yahoo News people that editorial cartoons had value ? even with the popularity of our topical cartoon content on Cagle.com. Unfortunately, this […]
1982 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent will be the focus of a new exhibit at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in Austin, TX. Ben was the editorial cartoonist for Austin American Statesman for 35 years. The exhibit, entitled Always Hitting a Nerve: Editorial Cartoons by Ben Sargent, contains original art from […]