Filed under: Editorial Cartooning

I mentioned the 30 year anniversary of Bob Englehart with the Hartford Courant back in December. Fox CT has posted a video profile on Bob.Hat Tip: Rob Tornoe

Still can’t find any cartoons Joe Heller, the editorial cartoonist in Green Bay, however Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was down in Dallas to cover the game. He’s posted several cartoons that he drew during the game.Seven cartoons in all. Last won captioned with this explanation:Oh, great! Here I was sitting in Cowboys Stadium […]

Press-Gazette profiled their own editorial cartoonist Joe Heller.“I occasionally use a brush to fill in full black in large areas, but mainly I love cross-hatching,” he says. “Cross-hatching is very relaxing to me. There’s a rhythm to it, and I can create different patterns and textures. “I really enjoy that. I don’t think I’d ever […]

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles ran a cartoon caption contest that netted nearly 2,000 entries. What I was looking for was an entry that took some portion of the drawing and teased out from that a thought-provoking caption that seemed to belong in the cartoon. Humor always a big plus. The winning caption seemed, […]

Rob Tornoe reports that editorial cartoonist John Trever is retiring from the Albuquerque Journal after 34 years. You’ve been drawing political cartoons for the Albuquerque Journal since 1976, over 30 years. What made now the time to pull back? I guess I should feel guilty, giving up an editorial cartoonist’s position in this environment, but […]

The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center will host a new Herblock exhibit entitled From Crayons to Cartoons on Jan. 22. Also featured are former Ledger Independent cartoonists James Mulcahy and John Van Meter. Herb Block worked at the Chicago Daily News before going to the Washington Post in 1946. He worked at The Post under five […]

I usually don’t see these types of articles during the non-presidential elections, but The Washington Scene is looking at how editorial cartoonists are caricaturing House Speaker John Boehner. Interviewed: Mike Lester, Taylor Jones, AAEC President Steve Kelley, Chris Weyant, Mike Peters, Steve Brodner and Ann Telnaes.Aside from getting their readers to recognize Boehner, many cartoonists […]

Michael Cavna interviewed San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Breen about his “Living in the Shadows” project. MICHAEL CAVNA: Did you do the reporting for your cartoon, Steve, or was that gathered by other journalists as part of the Union-Tribune’s larger immigration coverage? STEVE BREEN: This cartoon took months of work here and there, but […]

Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv and Reason.com, takes Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist Steve Benson to task for his cartooning of the Tucson shooting.It’s not that we need more proof that editorial cartooning (with the exception of Reason.com’s Bok, Payne, and Stantis) is the lowest of all art forms, but here you go, a week’s worth […]

Is Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler is a patriot or a pinhead for drawing this cartoon so soon after the Tucson murder?Bill O’Reilly asked his audience that question. You can vote on his website.Here’s the video from that segment. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIn an email (before the O’Reilly attention), Nate explained his […]

Excellent retrospection by Ed Stein regarding the challenges of editorial cartooning in our hyper-partisanship climate. Editorial cartooning is a funny business (no pun intended). The best cartoons are the strongest, most aggressive, least ambiguous ones. We want to say things as pointedly as possible, yet many of us are extremely uncomfortable with what has become […]

Not sure how to gauge who was first to post/publish a cartoon reaction to last weekend’s deadly shooting in Tucson AZ that injured Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords. There are two staff cartoonists in Arizona Steve Benson at the Arizona Republic and David Fitzsimmons so we’ll start with them first:This is David’s first cartoon:See all of […]

Saturday, I posted a response by Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons regarding that day’s shooting in Tucson that has placed Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital, killed a federal judge and five other individual. David, moments after the shooting on CNN said in part:“The right in Arizona, and I’m speaking very broadly, […]

Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons was interviewed by CNN on the shooting of Congressman Giffords. Daryl Cagle has quotes from the interview:The right in Arizona, and I?m speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state. It?s stunning because Congressman Giffords was a centrist, […]

PBS’ Newshour profiled Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher and his exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco which displays 40+ pieces from his 30 year career with the Economist. Below is a piece of that broadcast: