Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher marks his 30th anniversary with the Economist this week. To commemorate the occasion, the magazine will be running a variety of multimedia events through the year. The first event is an audio slideshow hosted on their web site.In non-Economist news, KAL’s “Digital Dubya” will team up again with comedy troupe Second City […]
In a story regarding unusual college mascots, CBS News has interviewed Brian Fairrington regarding his redesign of Scottsdale Community College’s Artie the Artichoke mascot that he did for them last year. The school hired editorial cartoonist Brian Fairington recently to toughen up Artie’s image a bit – give him an artichoke make-over. “At first it […]
The Atlantic Journalism Awards nominees have been announced. The finalists in the editorial cartooning category are: Michael de Adder of The Daily News, (Halifax, NS), Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald, (Halifax, NS), and Greg Perry of the Telegraph-Journal, (Saint John, NB). The awards will be presented on May 3rd. The AJA is a Canadian […]
A St. Patrick’s Day cartoon in the Leigh University student newspaper has prompted an apology from the cartoonist, the editorial board, and the university’s president after protests from students. The cartoon (see here) is entitled “Map for a Successful St. Patrick’s Day” and uses references to drunkeness, brawling, a “french fry famine” and a leprechaun […]
Ben Sargent, editorial cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman, has won The Best of Cox award for editorial cartooning. The Best of Cox is a journalism award for employees of the Cox newspaper chain that operates in six states.Regarding Ben’s work, the judges said, This cartoonist fires away. We were impressed by his clear, strong voice […]
Here’s good news for the editorial cartooning community. Rob Tornoe has been hired as Politicker.com’s full-time editorial cartoonist. Politicker is a combination of political web sites – with ambitions to have a politicker site for each of the 50 states. Rob has been doing their cartoons for a month now.Rob notes that this position is […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist David Horsey found himself in an uncomfortable situation when one of his cartoons unintentionally offended many of the Jewish faith. The cartoon which ran last Thursday depicts two prodigal sons. The first, representing investment firms returning to a receptive father willing to bail him out and a second an individual home […]
Editorial cartoonist and United Media’s Acquisition and Development Editor Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, creator of online and print comic Diesel Sweeties, along with web cartoonist Dean Haspiel, Raina Telgemeier, Collen Venable were at the first Graphic Novel Symposium held on March 15th to discuss the impact and viability of webcomics in the cartooning industry.The item […]
Syndicated editorial cartoonist Matt Bors launches a bi-weekly comic for the ACLU today. The feature is part of the ACLU’s StandUp campaign “that educates younger audiences about today’s pressing civil liberties issues.” “Matt’s cartoons are often about civil liberties violations and other injustices,” said Anthony Romero, ACLU executive director. “We’re excited to have someone as […]
Gordon Campbell, who was laid off last week from his editorial cartooning gig with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, will now be seen on Cagle.com. Gordon will continue to freelance for his paper.To Daryl Cagle he wrote about his dismissal: (See the March 18 entry) And the year started out so promising, too! For over […]
Mike Lynch is reporting that DBR Media is closing it’s doors. DBR is a smaller syndicate that distributes a few comics and editorial cartoons. Cartoonists associated with DBR include: Guy Gilchrist, Randy Glasbergen and editorial cartoonist Ed Hall.From an email sent to DBR contributers, executives wrote: “As you know, DBR Media has been experiencing very […]
Mike Rhode has an excellent write up after attending the award ceremony honoring John Sherffius as this year’s Herblock Award winner. His introduction noted that his portfolio was overwhelmingly critical of the Bush administration and when John spoke, he explained why. “I am angry…” at the Bush administration for a litany of failures and malfeasance […]
Daryl Cagle coined the phrase Yahtzee! when speaking of a number of editorial cartoonists using the same metaphor in their cartoons. He’s posted three different Yahtzees relating to recent news: The Olympic logo used as wheels of tanks; Pills coming out of the faucet; and a cuban cigar labeled “Castro” being nearly burned up.
With the demise of the Cincinnati Post, Matt Tauber has gone through the microfilm archives and pulled out some of Bill Watterson’s editorial cartoons. So far he’s posted four of his cartoons: see first, second, third (this is a well known, circulated cartoon) and finally a fourth one as well.
John Sherffius, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) has won this year’s Wilbur Award for outstanding work in the secular media addressing religious issues. John will be formally recognized in a banquet and ceremony on April 5th. John is also this year’s Herblock award winner.