In a confusing story on that does little to explain who’s who, the Times-Republican has written about a cartoon that was published in an in-house paper at the Iowa Veterans Home that has caused one staffer to be fired and the entire paper’s content to be reviewed by an editorial board for approval. No mention […]
Received an email from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey who reported in on his live blogging experiment of last nights election results there in Mississippi. He published 32 posts and 12 cartoons in that one night. From his email: I was exhausted when I got home at 1 a.m., but was very energized this morning […]
In what often seems to be a story to check off of the to-do list every 4 to 8 years (depending on how many terms the current president is fulfilling), the first of many ‘how will editorial cartoonists draw the next president’ has now been filed – The Miami Herald looks at how editorial cartoonists […]
Editorial cartoonist Ed Hall has posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how he develops a drawing for an editorial cartoon.
Mark Fiore – one of the first editorial cartoonists to go completely into editorial cartoon animation markfiore.com or now uclick.com.
The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, it will begin digitally archiving a broad range of creative works including photos, cartoons, motion pictures, audio and video games. As far as cartoons: Universal Press Syndicate: Universal Press Syndicate, a newspaper syndication company, will use a collection […]
Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will be live blogging tomorrow nights election results. For cartoonists not yet blogging, their greatest concern (and only contribution to their newspaper) is wondering how to draw election result before the election is final. To my knowledge, Marshall will be the first cartoonist to live blog an event – posting […]
KAL’s Digital Dubya has hit YouTube. Hat tip: Mike Rhode
Editorial cartoonist Neal Obermeyer has written an extensive post regarding a recent “Yahtzee” (multiple cartoonists draw very similar cartoons). This Yahtzee deals with the how Daryl Cagle (MSNBC.com) and Jeff Koterba (Omaha World-Herald) handled the topic of Barry Bonds.Hat tip: Daryl Cagle
According to Ted Rall’s blog, Ted will be making an appearance at the Ace of Clubs on Monday August 6th during Lizz Winsteads act. Lizz is a comedian and ex-Air America Radio personality. She does a two-part act – the first being “a bunch of satirical sketches” and the second a guest segment of which […]
Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker will be appearing regularly on the Riz Khan show where he will select a couple of cartoons to talk about. The Khan show is part of the Aljazeera English network. Matt’s first appearance is now on YouTube (Matt’s segment starts about 2 minute into the video below). Cartoons featured in […]
E&P reported that Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge will be speaking at the National Conference of Editorial Writers on September 29th. The topic of his speech? “Making the Case for an Endangered Species: Political Cartoonists.”When I wrote last week that today’s editorial cartoonists are “infatuated by their own victim status” this is an […]
Ventura County Star editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg writes in to share news that his section of the paper’s web site has been updated to include a blog, better bio, space for larger images, and shorter URL. He mentions that he’s also started adding animations, sketches and commentary on the blog as well. The new URL […]
Bill Kitchen, the former Miami Herald cartoonist, has died at the age of 78 of pancreatic cancer. Bill began working for the Herald in 1960 and officially retired in 1985 but continued to freelance to the paper until 2000. The Herald reports that in the 1960s, Bill was so popular that if he took a […]
ComicDC blogger Mike Rhode writes in to alert Daily Cartoonists that Chan Lowe, editorial cartoonist for the Sun-Sentinel, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. Chan is working with an animator who works in the Marketing Special Sections Department of the paper.