Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen of the The San Diego Union-Tribune has been named the winner of the 2010 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. This annual competition, created by Columbia College Chicago in 1980, is in honor of the legendary editorial political cartoonist John Fischetti.Breen has been the editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune since […]
Editorial cartoon animator Mark Fiore is the recipient of this year’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Mark’s work appears on SFGate.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, Motherjones.com and NPR’s web site. The judges noted, “for his animated cartoons appearing on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, where his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill […]
Today at 3pm EST, the Pulitzer board will announce this year’s winners of the Pulitzer Prize. I’ll be watching the announcements and will post the winners here as soon as they are announced.
Normally by this time, E&P has sniffed out the finalists or there are veiled whispers on who are the Pulitzer finalists for editorial cartooning. Lacking the buzz this year, let’s see who you all think should take the prize this year.Name your top three in the comments.My finalists in no particular order: Rob Rogers Scott […]
The Atlantic Journalism Awards nominations were released today. The nominees for editorial cartooning are: Michael de Adder (Times & Transcript), Bruce MacKinnon (The Chronicle Herald) and Wayne Wright (Journal Pioneer).The awards will be presented on Saturday evening, May 8, 2010.Good luck gentlemen.
Lots of anniversaries lately. Here’s another. According to John Glynn over at the GoComics editors blog, editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant is celebrating 30 years with Universal Uclick.
It’s the future I tell you. At least for today.
Earlier this week the Daytona Beach News-Journal laid of 10% of their workforce including editorial cartoonist Bruce Beattie. Bruce has been with the paper since 1981 and is currently syndicate through Creators. In 1986 he launched a panel feature called SNAFU which later became Beattie Blvd. The strip ran for 11 years and was a […]
Robert Wright interviews Tom Toles in a Bloggingheads episode:For just the past week, Toles has added a blog-like commentary to his cartoons:He talks about the past and future of political cartoons. (They’re dead or could last forever.) There’s an interesting revelation about the origin of the tiny commentary part at the bottom of the cartoons. […]
I don’t see ads like this anymore. The commute might be a strain, but I thought I’d pass it along anyway. 🙂 A leading newspaper publishing company with its head office in lagos has vacancies for the following position in its Concept Unit. 1. EDITORIAL CARTOONIST Candidates should posses: a) Creative ability with striking draughtsmanship […]
Rob Tornoe interviews Omaha World-Herald cartoonist Jeff Koterba who will have two of his cartoons traveling to the International Space Station on April 5. How did your cartoon end up on one of NASA’s final space shuttle flights? Clayton Anderson, the only Nebraska-born astronaut, will be flying on the upcoming shuttle flight Discovery. I first […]
News from Mikhaela Reid, who announced on her blog that she’s hanging up the pen and ink – at least in the alt-editorial cartooning market.The political cartooning market sucks (and I suck at marketing.) This is really no secret. I started out in 2002 with one paying client, the Boston Phoenix. Over the years I […]
Editorial cartoonists Terry (“Aislin”) Mosher of the The Gazette, Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail and Malcolm Mayes of the Edmonton Journal are the finalists for this year’s National Newspaper Award finalists for cartooning. Final award winners will be announced May 14.Best of luck to you three gentlemen.
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, has returned from a speaking tour in the Middle East. I have just returned from a 12 day visit to Amman, Jordan and Beirut, Lebanon as part of a strategic speaker initiative sponsored by the US Embassies in the region. During my visit I addressed […]
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, has launched his first iPhone app. Designed for the iPhone, this new application is an impressive collection of KAL’s award winning political cartoons, hand-picked by the artist himself. Browse through 150+ examples of KAL’s work, including 29 color covers and illustrations from The Economist magazine. […]