Alternative Comics» Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow) has published a children’s book entitled “The Very Silly Mayor” which he describes as a updated American The Emperor’s New Clothes story. Comic strips» As noted before, John McPherson will be the guest artist at the M&T Bank Harvest of the Arts Festival in Carlisle (PA) tomorrow. Carlisle […]
This year’s Cartoons & Cocktails 2009 will be held on October 22 in Washington D.C. with this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Breen as the honored guest. The annual fundraiser supports Young D.C., a independant metro monthly paper that teams professional journalists with local aspiring teens, and the Cartoonists Rights Network International which helps cartoonists […]
Sandra Guzman, an associate editor at the New York Post, was dismissed last week according to an article at the Huffington Post. The paper maintains her dismissal was “because the monthly in-paper insert, Tempo, of which she was the editor, has been discontinued.” Some employees within the paper felt she had crossed management during the […]
Comic Strips» The Australian Ginger Meggs comic strip has hit the stage as a “true-blue Aussie musical.” The strip turned musical opened last night and runs through October 7.Editorial Cartoonists» Dick Locher is honored by Napperville, his resident city.» Detroit News cartoonist Henry Payne was a featured artist in Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce’s […]
Ouch, but so true.h/t Rob Tornoe, Mike LynchUPDATE: The Family Guy scene isn’t really directed at Tom Toles, but was uploaded with the title, “Family Guy- Washington Post” implying his cartooning. Tom responded on his blog, “I couldnâ??t understand it because the characters werenâ??t labeled. Family Guyâ??s writers might examine my latest cartoon for guidance:” […]
Kurt Westergaard, who drew the famous Muhammad cartoon, will be speaking tomorrow at Yale on the same day as the author of “The Cartoons that Shook the World” (the one that won’t reprinting the cartoons). The two events were organized independently of each other. For security concerns, Westergaard’s speech was moved off campus. The Yale […]
Keith Knight, a prolific cartoonist doing three cartoons, The Knight Life syndicated through United Media, and self syndicated (th)ink and The K Chronicles. The K Chronicles was a college comic that was eventually picked up by the San Francisco Weekly and San Francisco Chronicle. He began self-syndicating the strip to other daily papers. During his […]
Daryl Cagle was the first speaker on the second day of the Success in Comics seminar here in Las Vegas. Daryl runs the highly popular Cagle.com website, built his own syndicate Cagle Cartoons, Inc which syndicates comics and columns to over 700 newspapers in North and Latin America. He is also past president of the […]
Ironic that two of the artists behind the infamous Mohammed cartoons would be speaking at Yale, whose publishing house that bears its name, refused to include the cartoons in a book about the cartoons. Kurt Westergaard and Lars Hedegaard will speak to Yale students on October 1, three days after the book, “The Cartoons That […]
Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers has front row seats to the biggest international political show going on right now – the G-20 Summit. Check out his sketch blog for comics and commentary. He’s curated the “Drawn to the Summit” exhibit currently running at the Warhol Museum featuring cartoons from around the world which […]
Comic Strips» Dear Mexican defends Garfield’s use of the sombrero.» The first ever exhibit of creator Sandra Bell-Lundy’s original artworks will be on display at Artway Gallery in Brampton, Ontario just west of Toronto, from October 31 to November 27, 2009. Editorial Cartooning» Pulitzer Prize-winning seattlepi.com editorial cartoonist David Horsey will be the featured speaker […]
The 2009-2010 Board of Directors for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists have been announced. The new leadership includes:President: Rex Babin President-Elect: Steve Kelley Vice President: Mikhaela Reid Secretary-Treasurer: V. Cullum Rogers Directors: Mark Fiore, Jeff Parker, Mike Thompson Ted Rall will also serve on the 2009-2010 Board as Immediate Past President. During the AAEC […]
Comic Strips» Rudy Park has been brought back to The San Jose Mercury News. Comics» Tom Spurgeon opines about “Five Basic Ways Comics May Have Changed Over The Last Five Years”Editorial Cartooning» RJ Matson took some heat for including a cross emblem on a KKK logo. The editor responded that the cross was indeed part […]
A new exhibit of original artwork has opened in Ocala, Florida featuring 11 cartoonists from the state. The exhibit, which opened September 12 is entitled Florida Inkslingers: Cartoonists of the Sunshine State and runs through October 18. Featured cartoonists include: Tom Armstrong, Henry Boltinoff, James Casciari, Dick Giordano, Jim Ivey, Bob McLeod, Fran Matera, Jeff […]
Mike Lane, the former editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun, has announced that he will retire from syndicated editorial cartooning. Mike was one of the first to join Daryl Cagle’s new syndicate, Cagle Cartoons Syndicate. In an email to Daryl, he writes that he’ll spend his time doing “watercolors, greeting cards, perhaps, whatever.”