An editorial cartoon by Sean Casey about the attack in Norway has some upset that his attempt to depict terrorists have slandered the whole Islamic community. He says the cartoon isn’t meant to point the finger at Muslims, but specifically terrorists. “There’s a pile of frigging skulls that they’re sitting on, drinking tea and reading […]
Cartoon Movement’s editorial team Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards are nearing the end of a month long stint in Haiti for a comics journalism project. The team hopes to a create a long-running comic chronicling problems facing Haiti that will be released in early 2012. They’ve posted six updates on the blog regarding their experiences […]
Daryl Cagle points out that Times of London editorial cartoonist Peter Brookes is being accused of providing “pro-Murdoch propaganda” for a cartoon he drew featuring starving Somalians with the caption, “I’ve had a bellyful of phone-hacking…” It’s important to note that the Times of London is a Rupert Murdock owned newspaper. Regardless, Twitter went ablaze […]
The World has posted a slideshow of a female Egyptian editorial cartoonist Doaa Eladl. The editorial cartooning community is largely male dominated and women in the field are even more rare in the Middle East.Visit the slideshow.Hat Tip: Mike Rhode
A commission with a really, really long name (“Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities”) has taken issue with Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) continued use of a shower head drawn above South Africa President Jacob Zuma. The group calls it “culturally, religiously and linguistically unprecedented to attack […]
This year’s John Locher memorial award went to JR Fruto at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. JR is a senior at the university where he is the cartoonist for the paper Daily Tar Heel. As the winner, JR attended this year’s AAEC convention earlier this month. Below are a couple of his […]
I’ve been waiting for news about last week’s annual American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention held at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. The buzz was especially low this year. Usually the local paper will run something announcing the association was in town. The only blurb I found was from St. Petersburg Times – […]
The Canadian Business Journal has announced that they will now be featuring Michael de Adder’s cartoons for their monthly magazine. Earlier this month Michael de Adder announced that he had been laid off from New Brunswick Publishing. He’s also got another paper lined up to run his work 3 times a week.
Editorial cartoonist Vic Harville has officially retired from the Stephens Media’s Little Rock Bureau where he drew editorial and sports cartoons for the newspaper chain since 2000. Vic says his retirement plans include fishing, painting, visiting family and traveling.
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett was awarded this year’s Green Eyeshade Award for editorial cartooning. The Green Eyeshade Award is presented by the regional Society of Professional Journalists covering Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.This is Clay’s second win in two years and […]
Interesting story from Colombia Reports which tells of Colombian political cartoonist Vladimir Florez who closed his Twitter account after dealing with insults and threats. He hat 79,000 followers. “For some time I had the idea because I could no longer discuss [ideas] with decency. When it turns to threats, to intimidation, to insults and to […]
Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe won the 125,000 circulation category for editorial cartoons in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors’ 2011 Journalism Contest.Andy Marlette of the Pensacola News Journal took the prize in the 50,000 to 125,000 circulation category.Don Brown of the Hernando Today won in the under 50,000.
The Columbian interviews Monte Wolverton about how his career and how he deals with controversial topics. He has a solo art show opening up in Portland on Sept. 1 that runs through that month.Despite the wide circulation, the occasional near-death-threat email from an offended reader lets him know he’s not playing it too safe when […]
Michael Cavna has posted the best summary of the end of United Media and the implications for syndicates in today’s newspaper climate.“No history of daily comics could be written,” [John] Glynn echoes, “without a third or more of it devoted to what United and NEA brought to the readers of the world.” And Glynn’s Universal […]
Not a scientific poll by any stretch of the imagination, but when The Public Editor asked for reader’s impressions of the new Week in Review format, 15 of the 24 comments mentioned in some way that they wish the editorial cartoons hadn’t been removed.Here’s a representative quote from Vince Parry of Brooklyn, NY:I’m with those […]