US News & World Report has an interesting report on the history of the impact of editorial cartoonists on presidential politics. The article goes back to Ben Franklin up through Thomast Nast, Homer Davenport and then into the Herblock, Pat Oliphant era. The birth of television in the 1950s and the spread of color photographs […]
LA Daily News editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor is one of 22 employees who will find out today if he will still be among the employed. In an email, Patrick tells me, “I think I’ll be live blogging my firing.”I’ll post a link to the blog when he sends it to me. I’m not sure if […]
The editorial cartooning community has been going through a season of discontent for many years and it seems that the pitch is only getting louder. If it’s not discussion of the gloom and doom of the newspaper industry, it’s the complaints about the book collections, who’s copying who and who’s pulling down the profession with […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist Dave Horsey leveled his ink and blog at the new Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell calling him “the most vulgar embodiment of a pervasive bean counter mentality that is threatening the best of American journalism.” From his column on his blog Dave warned that under a Zell leadership the Tribune Co. […]
Joe Strupp of Editor and Publisher has written his predictions on whose name might be announced in this year’s Pulitzer Prize announcement. In the category of editorial cartooning he names three candidates that he believes have a good shot: Mike Thompson, John Sherffius, and Ann Telnaes.Below are his arguments on why his picks could win: […]
A new exhibit featuring the work of Herblock will open up this spring at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture in Washington, D.C. The exhibit is entitled “Herblock’s Presidents: ‘Puncturing Pomposity” and features “depictions of every president from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.”Exhibit runs May 2nd through November 30.
Todd A. DePastino has written a biography of famed WWII cartoonist Bill Mauldin. The book is called “Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front.” The Wall Street Journal has posted an excerpt online that recounts how tens of thousands of veterans wrote him letters when they learned that he was dying and so many tried to […]
FoxTrot creator Bill Amend, Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library Associate Curator and Assistant Professor Jenny Robb and United Media Syndicate Senior VP/General Manager Lisa Klem Wilson were named among the 43 journalism professionals that will be judging in this year’s National Journalism Awards. The announcement does not specify which category the three will judge, […]
This year’s Herblock Prize has been awarded to John Sherffius of the Camera of Boulder, Colorado.From the judges: “John’s work exemplifies the best the art of editorial cartooning has to offer. Through a potent combination of excellent drawing technique, striking original imagery, and passionate conviction, his cartoons kick you in the gut. They are not […]
The Chicago Sun-Times is celebrating its 60th birthday and part of that celebration is republishing some of the best cartoons of its history by its staff cartoonists: Bill Mauldin, John Fischetti, Jacob Burck and current cartoonist Jack Higgins.Visit web site for slideshow and to read the full article.
Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne has responded to Jim Borgman’s “February Q’s?” in which he asked if the editorial cartooning profession was due for a make-over. Henry responds: I think you have missed two evolutions in cartooning. First, the Oliphant formula has not been the newspaper standard for some time. Cartoonists as varied as […]
Newsweek has an interesting article about a Mexican editorial cartoonist, Francisco “Paco” Calderon, who works for the Reforma newspaper and his struggle to influence Mexican policy in regard to its relationship with the United States. His contention is that Mexico has played the victim role far too long and that it should work to strengthen […]
The Comic Coast to Coast guys have posted part 2 of their interview with Wiley Miller.From a story about Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould’s daughter being nominated for an Edgar Award we learn that the Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock IL will close in June for economic reasons.NPR interviewed editorial cartoonists KAL (The Economist) and […]
The AAEC has posted a call for submissions for editorial cartoons to be published this fall in two campaign trail collections entitled “ROAD TO DENVER: The Race for the 2008 Democratic Nomination” and “ROAD TO MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL: The Race for the 2008 Republican Nomination.” The books will be published by Pelican Publishing in August. A […]
Blaming it on the February blahs, Cincinnati Enquirer’s Jim Borgman asks a series of questions regarding the state of editorial cartooning. He asks: Isn’t this profession due for a makeover? The last Renaissance was more than forty years ago when Oliphant came to the states (with Rigby, Low and Searle in his suitcase) and reinvented […]