Filed under: Editorial cartooning

Signe Wilkinson, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News has been awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for international cartooning – her third time for this award.Congratulations, Signe.

Over on Daryl Cagle’s blog, he’s posted the more controversial cartoons about the Virginia Tech shootings as well as the many gripes about them (scroll down). The two cartoons that are creating the most ruckus are Milt Priggee’s drawing of the letters “VT” drawn out in bodies as well as Rob Roger’s usage of imagery […]

Ward Sutton, who created Sutten Impact 12 years ago has said that he’s ending the feature so he can concentrate on other projects. For the last 9 years, Sutten Impact has ran in the Village Voice along with other papers.He says: In the last couple weeks I made a big decision: to retire my Sutton […]

Doug Marlette recently spoke at the Virginia Commonwealth University on the topic of editorial cartooning.From the article: An example of one of his most influential cartoons was one from 1986 that featured a crying eagle looking up at the dark sky, in response to that year’s NASA space shuttle explosion. The cartoonist said he designed […]

State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist.As the designated winner, he’ll receive a free trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Washington D.C.First Runner-up for the award was Sam Ayres, of Yale University, and Nathan Rohde, […]

Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning – his second such prize (the first was with the Times-Picayune in 1997). The Pulitzer committee said Handelsman’s was worthy of the high prize because of “his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation.”This seemed to the […]

Pat Bagley, the editorial cartoonist with the Salt Lake Tribune, recently spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah where he spoke about the unique, and ripe culture for cartooning that Utah provides. Bush has “been good for me because he’s radicalized me,” Bagley said. “I used to be kind of […]

The Des Moines Register’s Brian Duffy appears in a video on the paper’s web site about how he creates his cartoons. It runs a couple of minutes, but there are some cool things to learn. The video states that Brian’s cartoons appear on the front page. And you’ll see Brian working with a crow-quill pen […]

The Jewish Exponent covered a recent speaking engagement with Tony Auth, the editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tony shared some of his work from his 30 year career with the Inquirer and since he was speaking at a Jewish gathering, he talked about some of the controversies that have been raised due to his […]

The Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has won this year’s Fischetti Award. Receiving honorable mention are Clay Bennett of the Christian Science Monitor and Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The three will attend the awards ceremony in Chicago on April 30. While in Chicago, the three will participate in a panel discussion, […]

Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) has produced an animated short using his Digital Dubya that was created at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland. The animation pokes target’s Bush’s ire for KAL (“He drew my daddy”). You can see the short over on the Economist’s web site where KAL has been their editorial cartoonist […]

Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, writes about some irony regarding the newly published “Killed Cartoons” in which the publisher killed a 2002 cartoon by Doug Marlette depicting a jihadist driving a Ryder retnal truck with a nuclear bomb in the back with a caption that read: What Would Mohammad Drive? From her column: Editors and […]

AAEC President Rob Rogers has scrapped the presidential campaign exhibit idea for this year’s 50th anniversary of the AAEC during their Washington D.C. convention. Instead, the exhibit will focus on the current presidential administration. Like Bill Clinton, I may have tried to do too much in my first 100 days as president (Ok, to be […]

For those outside of Utah, the name Pat Bagley probably won’t mean much, but for us in Utah, Pat is THE big name in cartooning. For 27 years he’s been the editorial cartoonist at the Salt Lake Tribune and is either loved or reviled by politicians and other headliners. Last night the local news profiled […]

While visiting the Buckeye state, I was able to visit the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library in Columbus Ohio. Thanks to Craig Boldman who helped set things up, Jenny Robb, the library’s Associate Curator and Professor (what a cool job!) gave me a tour of the library and showed me their extensive collection. During […]