Filed under: Editorial cartooning

KOTV in Tulsa has a story (including video) of their interview with Tulsa World editorial cartoonist (and Kudzu creator), Doug Marlette.

Click book cover above to buy book through Amazon. A new collection book will be coming out on March 12 entitled Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression and as the title suggests, the book contains nearly 100 cartoons and illustrations that never saw print because they were axed by editors or publishers […]

The Miami Herald editorial cartoonist Jim Morin has won the 2007 Herblock Prize award for editorial cartooning and a cash prize of $10,000. The award ceremony is April 4 at the Library of Congress according to E&P.

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey’s exhibit opens tomorrow with 101 of his best editorial cartoons from the last 10 years with the Mississippi newspaper. There’s a good write-up about it on the Clarion-Ledger’s web siteFrom his blog he described what he felt when he saw the exhibit before the official opening: For a reason that […]

Mikhaela Reid writes in to tell me about an editorial cartoon and illustration contest she’s involved in. The Life Without Fair Courts is a contest to garner attention to the good things the courts have done for equality in America. She mentions this would be a good contest for “any aspiring, struggling or college cartoonists.” […]

Providence Journal editorial cartoonist Jim Bush will be lecturing this Saturday on the topic of “The Art of the Political Cartoon: Editorial Cartooning in the State of Rhode Island.” Jim has been doing cartoons for the Providence Journal since 1994. The lecture is not free and seating is limited. If interested visit the New Port […]

Jose Varela, the former El Nuevo Herald editorial cartoonist, who held employees of Miami Herald captive for four hours with a toy gun will write a tell-all book to explain his actions.He says, “My motivation was to send a personal message with all the problems inside the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald,” he said.

The Washington state legislature passed a resolution honoring the memory of the late editorial cartoonist Bob McCausland who spent more than 30 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and then another 30 years after retirement doing cartoons for the Daily World. Bob died last year at age 90.The motivation for the resolution […]

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will take part in a “History Is Lunch” series at the William F. Winter Archives and Histroy Building in Jackson on February 28th. He’ll talk about his cartoons and sign copies of his latest book that commemorates his 10 years at the Clarion-Ledger.

Matt Wuerker is getting props over at the Washingtonian as the new Politico editorial cartoonist. Against that backdrop, Matt Wuerker’s illustrations pop off the pages. What distinguishes the Politico from its competitors-Roll Call and The Hill-is that it has chosen to hire and highlight a political cartoonist at a time when newspaper cartooning is a […]

A professional political cartoonist now serving in Iraq has written back to the AAEC’s Notebook (quarterly magazine) to admonish his peers to treat the flag-draped coffin with more respect than what he’s seen. Here’s a snippet from this letter: No matter how your political persuasion distills this image, a flag-draped coffin is due a certain […]

Aaron Taylor, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Herald, was recently asked to participate on the Dave and Bob on the Back Porch internet radio program to his job as a staff editorial cartoonist. That broadcast had over 81,000 listeners. Dave and Bob have asked Aaron to be a regular feature on the show to discuss […]

Moved by the damage he saw after multiple tornadoes ripped their way through Central Florida, News-Press Editorial Cartoonist Doug MacGregor loaded his car with water, granola bars, toilet paper and a chain-saw and took off to find a way to help alleviate those devastated by nature. “There were three tornados south, from what I’m told. […]

Daryl Cagle writes on his blog about whether international cartoonists’ perception of the United States has changed since 9-11. Daryl concludes that editorial cartoonists – regardless of their nationality – are good barometers of the public opinion of those in their respective communities and that America was held in distain before 9-11 and that hasn’t […]

Yesterday’s Non Sequitur appears to have pushed some buttons for many editorial cartoonists. Wiley Miller, a former staff editorial cartoonist used his comic feature to lay blame at the feet of syndicated editorial cartoonists as the causing the decline in the number of staff positions.The cartoon in question depicts and editor asking why he should […]