African National Congress president Jacob Zuma is lawyering up and is looking into taking cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) to court over Sunday’s controversial cartoon depicting Zuma ready to engage in a rape of Lady Justice. Zuma and Zapiro have tangled in court before back in 2006 because of three of Zapiros cartoons during a much […]
E&P is reporting that Dwane Powell will stay at The News Observer at least through the elections and perhaps until the end of the year. I reported earlier this summer that Dwane had been asked to drop down to a part-time freelance position with limited restrictions on the topics he could cover. He opted to […]
South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, who goes by the pen-name “Zapiro“, has created a growing furor over a cartoon that ran yesterday depicting the members of African National Congress (ANC) of holding down lady justice and telling ruling leader Jacob Zuma to “go for it” as he unbuttons his pants. The Independent Online quotes […]
» As reported yesterday, due to his father’s death, Rob Rogers left the convention early.» Marshall Ramsey live blogged John McCain’s speech. Wasn’t so impressed. Money quote, “OK, had to take a break, the dog just puked on the carpet — although I am 99% certain it isn’t John McCain’s fault. I don’t know Banjo’s […]
Rob Rogers has left the Republican National Convention early to return home to be with his father. His father passed away early this morning after a long battle with cancer. I offer my sincere condolences to Rob and his family for the loss of his dad.
Mr. Media (Bob Andelman) interviewed me yesterday about recent changes in Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse, Jim Borgman’s buyout and rumors of the end of Berkeley Breathed’s Opus.You can play it below, open it in your favorite mp3 player or pop open a new window.
After the Larry Craig fiasco, why the Republicans would want to hold their convention in Minnesota is beyond me. But they are and so some cartoonists are on the ground. » Rob Rogers is in the Twin Cities covering the storm that has the Republican National Convention a buzz – John McCain’s VP pick. He […]
After 32 years with the Cincinnati Enquirer, Jim Borgman is leaving behind editorial cartooning, both for his paper and his syndication work for Universal Press. For the last 12 years, he’s been doing both the editorial cartoons and his comic strip Zits which he co-created with Jerry Scott. The combined workload “adds up to a […]
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that their longtime editorial cartoonist, Jim Borgman, has “applied for, and was granted, severance under the company’s voluntary severance program.” His daily editorial cartoons will continue through the month of September and then he’ll provide a new weekly cartoon feature later this year that will run on the Sunday Community […]
Daryl Cagle, MSNBC editorial cartoonist and Cagle Cartoons founder, has a bone to pick with the L.A. Times. When comparing the Times with the L.A. Daily News, he prefers the News because it staffs an editorial cartoonist (Patrick O’Connor) and runs more cartoons on the editorial page per week than the Times.It probably doesn’t also […]
Dayton Daily News editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be honored at this year’s Kids Voting’s annual Bipartisan Bash which will celebrate Mike’s 40 years for cartooning. Speaking at the bash will be Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jim Borgman of The Cincinnati Enquirer and Chip Bok of the Akron Beacon Journal who will “poke, […]
Last night was the big one. The night that Barak Obama became the first African-American presidential nominee. Here’s how it was covered:» The prolific Rob Rogers tangles with security, meets Vice President nominee Joe Bidden, gets frustrated at security, CNN, but he’s really happy to be there and has some final thoughts on the Obama […]
From Mike Rhode’s blog comes news that Tom Tomorrow and Lloyd Dangle will be appearing at this year’s Small Press Expo to talk about alternative editorial cartooning. The discussion is entitled “Outside Looking In: Alternative Political Cartooning In 2008” and will look back at the last 8 years and forward to the 2008 elections and […]
Bob Andelman recently interviewed Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman and Zits creators Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Topics discussed include raising their own kids, what they’d think if their kids wanted to become a cartoonist, collaborating with each other, side projects (or avoidance of), feature optioning, and coming up with the character’s […]
Local coverage:» Rob Rogers Bill Clinton and Joseph Biden speeches: “He just bites his lower lip, squints his eyes and says with a slight southern drawl, “John McCain: bad … Barak Obama: good.” Joe Biden, although not quite as hypnotic, followed with even stronger words. He said, “John McCain: really bad … Barak Obama: really […]