Over on Steve Greenberg’s blog comes news that a proposal is being floated to give future AAEC/John Locher award winners a cash prize instead of the traditional all-expense paid trip to that year’s convention. Steve wonders if the proposed change is an acknowledgement that the profession is bleak, but then counters why a cash prize […]
The Washington Post has a comic editorial by Art Spiegelman exploring editorial cartoonists reaction to a 1939 refugee boat full of 900 European Jews fleeing Nazi German who were turned back when they reached the United States. Interesting review of editorial cartooning history and a not so subtle jab at the modern profession.
Comic Strips» A humorous story about Ernie Harwell who in 1953 conceived of a comic strip featuring a baseball country boy named Amby Dexter. The strip was written at the request of his neighbor who was the head of national sales at United Media. They liked Earnie’s writing, but needed an illustrator. Unfortunately the strip […]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bill Bates has passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was 79. Bill was a local cartooning legend who had worked as a cartoonist for the Chronicle and the Carmel Pine Cone. In the 1980s, Bill met weekly with Hank Ketcham and Gus Arriola, two other legendary cartoonists […]
On a somewhat related cartooning note, I received word that Dan Froomkin, who blogs for the Washington Post with the blog “White House Watch,” was given notice that his contract has been terminated. Dan had a daily feature called “Cartoon Watch” that offered up links to that days best editorial cartoons. His latest blog post […]
Animation» Fox will premiere its animation powerhouse shows on Sunday September 27. Check out new episodes of “The Simpsons”, the “Family Guy” and its spinoff “The Cleveland Show” and “American Dad.”Comic Strips» An original 1983 Peanuts comic strip was recently auctioned off for $17,080. It had originally thought to sell for $10,000 to $15,000.Editorial Cartoons» […]
Animation» Animated News blog reports that Ponyo, the Hayao Miyazaki film that is coming to the United States will open on an unprecedented 800 screens this August. His earlier film, Spirited Away only opened in 600.Interviews» Michael Cavna interviews Boston Globe political cartoonist Dan Wasserman.
More gloom and doom writings about the state of editorial cartooning in the industry. This time from Editor and Publisher. To be a newspaper staff editorial cartoonist these days is to live in dread that the next phone call is coming from the human resources department. “There’s a great sense of dismay and gloom in […]
Editorial Cartooning» Daryl Cagle will moderate a panel of editorial cartoonists again this year at the San Diego ComicCon. Pat Oliphant will be there.» Mike Lynch as an excellent review of Draper Hill’s career. Draper passed away two weeks ago. He was the editorial cartoonist for the Detroit News.Interviews» Todd Dolce interviews Molly and the […]
Last week, Chip Bok’s cartoon poking fun at Republicans dealing with how to approach the Judge Sonia Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court, created a stir in segments of the Latino community by depicting the Puerto Rican judge as a pinata. Here is around up of some of the national press the cartoon has raised.The […]
We have a launch date set for Monday for the web project(s) that have been consuming my life. I hope to return to normal blogging schedule beginning next week. Until then, blogging will be intermittent. Interviews» Carolyn Davis of the Philadelphia Inquirer interviews their own Signe Wilkinson on her comic strip, The Family Tree. » […]
Collections» Slam Bang #4 vol 3 is now available. The anthology includes the artwork of Adam Wilson, Luisa Russo, Dan Burke, Matjaz Bertoncelj, Allen Freeman, Anton Bogaty, Brian Hagen, Rob Schamberger, Charlene Chua,Clint Basinger, David Branstetter, C. William Cooke, Gerorge Hartman, Jason Nocera, Dan Taylor, Jim Pack, James Stanton, Agata Laguniak, Kirt Dinse, Larry Blake, […]
Roy Peterson’s 47 year career at the Vancouver Sun has ended. He was laid off earlier this week in a cost-cutting move. Roy has seven National Newspaper Awards and has been one of the premiere cartoonists in Canada for decades. He is also a founding member of the the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and […]
Daryl Cagle, creator of Cagle Cartoons and MSN editorial cartoonist writes a rebuttal to a piece published in the Huffington Post about “Ten Features That Are Dying with your Newspaper” which includes, according to the author, editorial cartooning. Editorial cartoons have never been more popular. With the Web in addition to newspapers, political cartoonists now […]
Animation» The plot for Toy Story 3 is the subject of an A.P. story posted a week or so ago. “Next year’s “Toy Story 3″ has the gang learning they have reached their shelf life as the young boy who owns them grows up and goes off to college.”» Pixar receives lots of positive ink […]