Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler has won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. The annual award is sponsored by the National Press Foundation. The Berryman award will be presented to Nate during their Annual Awards Dinner in February. The judges, which included Ann Telnaes, said they were, […]
Former San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley is suing his former employer for allegedly pressuring the current editorial cartoonist Steve Breen to not work with him on a collaborative comic strip that was due to launch this year. According to Voices of San Diego, an online newspaper, Kelley and Breen teamed up to create […]
Just received confirmation that Eric Devericks, editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Times, has been laid off along with 40 to 50 others. Eric’s position was on the cutting block earlier this year, but was spared after enough staffers took a voluntary buyout. On this round, only about half of the necessary cuts were voluntary. As […]
Jimmy Margulies, editorial cartoonist for The New Jersey Record, has written the following faux news article to parody the senseless firings of editorial cartoonists. New York ( November 12 ) Harper’s Weekly has eliminated the position of Thomas Nast, famed editorial cartoonist, noted for his pursuit of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall as well as […]
We’ve discussed this issue before: how will a largely liberal editorial cartoonist community deal with a president that many were rooting for? Pat Oliphant, in an article in the Kansas City Star, admits that he likes Obama. In the article he states, “I’m now trying to deal with the dilemma of liking the new guy. […]
Atlanta Constitution Journal editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich has been awarded the Brooke Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement by The Dunwoody Friends of the Library in Dunwoody GA. The award is given to authors who are residents of Georgia. Mike has two book collections of his cartoons: “Lotsa Luckovich” and “Four More Wars.” The award was […]
The Kansas City Star announced that is laying off 50 of its employees, one of which is their editorial cartoonist Lee Judge who has been at the paper for 27 years. Lee, who found out yesterday, tells me that he is still processing the news and working through the system of Human Resources and hasn’t […]
I just received an email from Steve Greenberg telling me that his job with the Ventura County Star will be eliminated as of Nov. 30. Since 2002, Steve has been with the paper doing editorial graphics and editorial cartoons as a secondary position. He tells me as the single artist, he thought his position was […]
Editorial Cartoonist for The Economist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be an Artist-in-Residence at Duke University’s Sanford Institute for Public Policy. During his time on campus, from November 10-14, he will be creating a clay sculpture to commemorate the 2008 Presidential campaign. The Sanford Institute will also be holding a forum titled “Laughing at Power: Satire […]
W.K. Haselden of the Daily Mirror printed 17 Jan 1906British Cartoon archive, based at the University of Kent, has created one of the largest online archives of cartoon art with over 120,000 British political and social cartoons from more than 250 cartoonists going back to the 18th century. The collection also includes present day cartoonist […]
Through out the day I’ll be posting coverage of today’s presidential election from cartoonists around the country. Keep coming back here throughout the day for updates. First up: Ted Rall, the man conservatives LOVE to hate, has posted his second cartoon animation depicting GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin trying to take John McCain out ala […]
I’ll be live blogging the live bloggers during tomorrow night’s election results. If you’re a cartoonist who will be blogging about the election tomorrow night, please drop me an email so I can be watching for your stuff.
» Comic Book Resources posted their last profile of historic editorial cartoonists. Go read about Art Young.» Karen Montague-Reyes has posted the last two “road to syndication” articles on her blog. Part 3 and part 4.» The Aaugh blog notes that the latest Complete Peanuts volume (vol. 11) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972“>is now available for […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Maintaining cartoonist Nick Creekmore will have some of his cartoons included an art exhibit exploring subjects of the male identity. The Exhibit opens in Nashville, TN at the Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery with an opening reception on October 30. Exhibit runs through November 26.North Central College’s new Schoenherr Art Gallery will feature an exhibit […]