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Mikhaela Reid has posted some of the photos she took from this year’s AAEC convention. They’re hosted over on Ted Rall’s web site.

Dear AAEC membersI didn’t get a chance to respond to one of Dave Astor’s stories about the blogging session at this month’s AAEC convention. The discussion apparently didn’t go well and was received luke warmly. The most egregious comment, in my opinion, came from David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who Astor reported as saying, […]

According to E&P editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and conservative Michelle Malkin got into a bit of a tiff on their blogs as Malkin called a recent Ted cartoon a “troop-bashing tantrum.” See the cartoon here.In her blog post she writes: Unhinged cartoonist Ted Rall is throwing another troop-bashing tantrum. Normally, I would not feed this […]

Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, will be co-chair of this year’s “Cartoons & Cocktails” – a fund-raising event of the National Press Club to support “Young D.C.” (a teen newspaper), the Cartoonists Rights Network International, and the National Press Club scholarship program.

Ed Hall, editorial cartoonist for The Baker County Press, has joined the blogosphere. His blog opened up on July 10, which makes me wonder if Ed’s decision to start a blog was influenced by the AAEC convention’s discussion on blogging. Looks like he’s updating it daily with cartoons, roughs, and photos.

J.P. Trostle writes in with a link to his photos from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists conference earlier this month:Finally got a chance to sort thru all my photos from last week’s 50th Anniversary of the AAEC — took 911 shots (!) with a new 2 gig chip while in DC. Anyway, here are […]

The Chicago Reader posted a story last week about the Northwest Herald bragging about its staff cartoonist, Scott Nychay, whom they had laid off months earlier.

Rex Babin, of the Sacramento Bee, and Mikhaela Reid, an alternative weekly cartoonist, were interviewed by NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussing their favorite cartoons on George W. Bush and on cartooning the next president.You can listen to it here.

Several Daily Cartoonists have emailed me with some devastating news that Doug Marlette died this morning in a Mississippi car accident. From the police reports, Doug’s pickup hydroplaned off of the highway and struck a tree at about 9:42 a.m. this morning. He died instantly. Another passenger (the driver) was taken to the hospital.Doug, 57, […]

Two attendees of this year’s AAEC convention in D.C. have posted their photos. Mike Rhode of ComicsDC blog has posted photos of the Cartoonapolooza. Jeff Parker of Florida Today has posted his photos.

The AAEC wrapped up it’s annual convention over the weekend. Here is a list of stories about the going’s on:Dana Priest, the journalist that broke the story on the Walter Reed hospital deplorable conditions spoke to editorial cartoonists praising them for putting “the punctuation mark on the sentences we constructed.“Nick Anderson will become president of […]

E&P editor Dave Astor is attending the AAEC convention in Washington D.C. and has filed a report about the session on the future of the editorial cartooning profession. His article focuses on things editorial cartoonists can do to halt the declining numbers of editorial cartoonists positions including: speaking about the importance of their profession at […]

For those of us unable to attend this year’s AAEC convention in WAshington D.C., C-SPAN is covering some of the sessions. On their web site they’ve posted the sessions they’ve recorded (but no streaming video). Today they’ll be covering: Wartime Editorial Cartoons and Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award. Start looking under the cushions for the […]

Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson is in Rome to judge the 24th International Biennial of Art Humour. His blog has sketches and photographs of his trip.

From the National Journal comes a report on the AAEC convention this year. The story centers on the dwindling number of staff positions (a reoccurring theme), perspectives on animated editorial cartoons, and the demographics of the association. The AAEC will celebrate 50 years of existence at its annual meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington […]