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Talk about drawing under pressure.Hat tip to Mike Lynch and Mark Anderson

Comic Strips» Ted Dawson posts some early Family Circus strip.Editorial Cartooning» Canadian editorial cartoonists are planning their annual convention in September.Newspapers» The Deseret News’ parent company is launching a Spanish-language paper in February. The paper will start out as a tri-weekly with a circulation goal of 25,000.Television» “A Charlie Brown Valentine Special” will air on […]

In Mike Rhode’s latest column in the Washington City Paper, compared the number of cartoons in each D.C. paper with what was offered in 2007. The result: only 65 percent of the comics remain. As we take stock of this great nation of ours, it is evident that one group is sufferingâ??a surprising group given […]

A Jeff Koterba cartoon making fun of Senator Harry Reid’s comments regarding President Obama’s skin color was pulled from Tuesday’s edition due to concerns over how it would be interpreted. The cartoon depicts Reid as a census taker asking three African-Americans, “Now then, would you gentlemen say you are ‘black,’ ‘African-American,’ or ‘Negro’?”In an email […]

Eric Millikin, interviews cartoonist Larry Wright for the The Comics Journal: EM: The Detroit News, which featured editorial cartoons by both you and Henry Payne up until recently, and before that both you and Draper Hill, has to be one of the last major metro dailies to have two editorial cartoonists on staff. LW: The […]

Kurt Westergaard, the most famous of the Mohammad cartoon creators, has been under Danish police protection for the last couple of years. Politiken reports that the new bodyguard system operated by PET (the Danish Intelligence and Security Service) will cost an annual equivalent of US $3.8 million for salaries alone. His home has also been […]

I admit, I never tire of talking tools. Not the stuff found at the Home Depot, but the local art supply store. I don’t believe that any particular pen, paper or pencil will make any cartoonist funnier or produce more clever cartoons, but I’m fascinated by the tools cartoonists keep in their quiver. Last year, […]

Editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg writes about the loss of a newspaper to cover the cost of entering cartooning contests and the forced decision making that comes with it. So I am forced to tally up costs and estimate odds, and forced to pick and choose. Is it worth it for me to cough up $75 […]

Title: Kurt Westergaard is in hiding again. That’s according to NPR who interviewed after the New Year’s Day attack on his home by a axe-wielding man. Listen to the full interview on NPR. An AP story reports that prosecutors have filed a preliminary charge of terrorism against the axe-wielding man for his murder attempt on […]

In the wake of the recent attacks on Kurt Westergaard, The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has reissued their statement regarding the Danish Muhammad cartoons and free speech. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists condemns the recent lawless attack on Kurt Westergaard and emphatically and unequivocally reiterates its support for the right of free expression […]

The Herblock Foundation has announced that it is allowing animated editorial cartooning for consideration for the Herblock Award. The foundation has also waived the normal $50 entry fee “given the difficulties facing editorial cartoonists… the fee money can be better used to support other efforts to promote the craft.” In keeping with the changes in […]

The Australian Acting-Prime Minister has condemned an cartoon drawn by an Indian cartoonist that compares Aussie police to the Ku Klux Klan. The cartoon was published in response to investigations into the murder of a young Indian man.

An animated editorial cartoon by Mark Fiore has the conservative blogosphere buzzing and livid at National Public Radio for posting a cartoon on the opinion section of its website back in early November. The cartoon entitled “Learn to Speak Tea Bag” pokes fun at Tea Party conservatives for using button pushing terms such as “Nazi” […]

Matt Wuerker, the editorial cartoonist for Politico, recently appeared on the Newseum’s Inside Media. Here are 5 snippets from that appearance. As an aside, apparently bloggers are criticizing Matt for being a Dick Cheney lapdog. He writes to Jim Romenesko to demonstrate that it is not so.

I completely missed this one. Last week, I traded emails with Bill Mitchell and Bob Lang two editorial cartoonists that drew for CNN’s political website. Bill is perhaps the first editorial cartoonist to leave traditional editorial cartooning to provide animated editorials. Both artists confirm that CNN dropped their services last spring after new management was […]