Filed under: Editorial Cartooning

Andy Marlette, Doug Marlette’s nephew has a write up in the Pensacola News Journal that reviews his controversies that he’s stirred in his young college career.

More editorial cartoonist are joining the blogosphere. J.D. Crowe of The Mobile Register launched his blog recently as did Drew Sheneman of the Newark Star-Ledger.I’ve updated the list on the right side of this page. If you’re an editorial cartoonist with a blog and you’re not listed, please email me and I’ll get you linked!

This year’s Golden Spike Award went to Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Examiner. The Golden Spike is an award given out during the annual AAEC convention to recognize a worthy cartoon that was rejected by an otherwise timid editor. Over on Daryl Cagle’s blog, he’s posted a copy of the toon – which […]

In a confusing story on that does little to explain who’s who, the Times-Republican has written about a cartoon that was published in an in-house paper at the Iowa Veterans Home that has caused one staffer to be fired and the entire paper’s content to be reviewed by an editorial board for approval. No mention […]

Received an email from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey who reported in on his live blogging experiment of last nights election results there in Mississippi. He published 32 posts and 12 cartoons in that one night. From his email: I was exhausted when I got home at 1 a.m., but was very energized this morning […]

In what often seems to be a story to check off of the to-do list every 4 to 8 years (depending on how many terms the current president is fulfilling), the first of many ‘how will editorial cartoonists draw the next president’ has now been filed – The Miami Herald looks at how editorial cartoonists […]

Editorial cartoonist Ed Hall has posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how he develops a drawing for an editorial cartoon.

Mark Fiore – one of the first editorial cartoonists to go completely into editorial cartoon animation markfiore.com or now uclick.com.

The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, it will begin digitally archiving a broad range of creative works including photos, cartoons, motion pictures, audio and video games. As far as cartoons: Universal Press Syndicate: Universal Press Syndicate, a newspaper syndication company, will use a collection […]

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will be live blogging tomorrow nights election results. For cartoonists not yet blogging, their greatest concern (and only contribution to their newspaper) is wondering how to draw election result before the election is final. To my knowledge, Marshall will be the first cartoonist to live blog an event – posting […]

KAL’s Digital Dubya has hit YouTube. Hat tip: Mike Rhode

Editorial cartoonist Neal Obermeyer has written an extensive post regarding a recent “Yahtzee” (multiple cartoonists draw very similar cartoons). This Yahtzee deals with the how Daryl Cagle (MSNBC.com) and Jeff Koterba (Omaha World-Herald) handled the topic of Barry Bonds.Hat tip: Daryl Cagle

According to Ted Rall’s blog, Ted will be making an appearance at the Ace of Clubs on Monday August 6th during Lizz Winsteads act. Lizz is a comedian and ex-Air America Radio personality. She does a two-part act – the first being “a bunch of satirical sketches” and the second a guest segment of which […]

Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker will be appearing regularly on the Riz Khan show where he will select a couple of cartoons to talk about. The Khan show is part of the Aljazeera English network. Matt’s first appearance is now on YouTube (Matt’s segment starts about 2 minute into the video below). Cartoons featured in […]

E&P reported that Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge will be speaking at the National Conference of Editorial Writers on September 29th. The topic of his speech? “Making the Case for an Endangered Species: Political Cartoonists.”When I wrote last week that today’s editorial cartoonists are “infatuated by their own victim status” this is an […]