Randy Bish, editiorial cartoonst for the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, has started a blog called the “BishBlog.” Randy’s first post was earlier this week on the 16th. He joins a small but growing number of editorial cartoonists that maintain blogs (see my list on the right hand side of this page).Â
Back in April and June, I posted stories about editorial cartoonist Joe Heller’s participation in a fund raiser for the Einstein Project. The project involved 40 artists who decorated statues of butterflies, frogs and beetles that would be placed in several locations throughout Green Bay and later auctioned off. Last Tuesday the auction was held and Joe’s butterfly fetched $3,700 – the third highest for the evening.
The National Press Club’s Cartoons and Cocktails fundraiser will be tomorrow night. The annual event raises money for the Ellen Masin Persina scholarship (help fund the first year of college study for a needy high school student), Young D.C. (training opportunities and hands-on experience with news media) and Cartoonists Rights Network (devoted to helping editorial cartoonists who face censorship, imprisonment, intimidation or death for their commentary).
Here are the latest book signing dates for “Marshall Ramsey’s greatest hits: A collection of editorial cartoons from The Clarion-Ledger”.November 1 – 4 (Wednesday through Saturday) Mistletoe Marketplace, JacksonNovember 7 (Tuesday) Lobby of The Clarion-Ledger 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.November 9 (Thursday) St.
Editorial cartoonist from around the world met in New York at the United Nations to discuss the topic of free expression and respect for religious beliefs. Representing the United States was Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Fifteen cartoonists from Denmark, the Middle East, US and Africa attended. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the seminar.
Nick Anderson’s latest animated editorial cartoon has been posted. This last salvo picks on Hillary Clinton’s baggage and is a parody of Black Eye Peas’ “My Humps”.
The Denton Record-Chronicle has let go of it’s freelance editorial cartoonist J.R. Lane due to budget constraints. The paper, which is a sister paper to the Dallas Morning News has been using J.R.’s local and national cartoons since 2001.
Ed Stein, editorial cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News, will be speaking at the College of William and Mary (Virginia) on October 12 as part of the American Political Cartoonists exhibit that is running at the college through January 2007. Some of Ed’s work is on display as is a selection of work from Thomas Nast, Bill Mauldin, Dr. Seuss, Herbert Block (Herblock), Pat Oliphant, Garry Trudeau, Signe Wilkinson, and Hugh Haynie. Admission to the lecture is free. Hugh Haynie’s stuff can be seen online.
Mike Luckovich was on CNN’s American Morning on Friday Oct 6th to promote his news book – Four More Wars…. And — but we did decide to make him not get off scot-free, he’s, in addition to talking about his book, “Four More Wars,” he’s drawing a cartoon for us. We’ll tell you about “Four More Wars” in a little bit.Let’s check in with him in his office there.
I’m still trying to catch up from last weeks vacation and it’s not looking like I’m going to be able to give these stories the individual attention that they deserve, but I wanted to make sure they got some play on the blog.
As reported ealier, Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the The Clarion-Ledger, will be coming out with a new book this month to commemorate his 10 years with the paper. On his blog, he has posted the cover which depicts public officials that have been lampooned in the last 10 years throwing tomatoes at Marshall.
Marshall Ramsey, a prolific blogger/editorial cartoonist for the Clarion Ledger announced on his blog yesterday that he will begin podcasting next week…. Once Marshall begins podcasting, he will join Scott Stantis as the only professional cartoonist with a regular podcast.
Over on the AAEC web site is a good list of cartoon related events happening in the Baltimore area beginning October 12. Events include:
Small Press Expo featuring Matt Bors, Brian McFadden, August Pollak, Ted Rall, Mikhaela Reid, and Ben Smith.
International Comics Art Festival featuring Jules Feiffer and an exhibit of Herblock work.
Cartoons & Cocktails hosted by Mike Luckovich.
Exhibit of KAL at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (which I’ve talked about earlier).
For more information, including links to these events, visit the AAEC site.
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will be the featured speaker for the University of Kentucky Libararies’ Special Collection and Digital Programs Archives Week. Archives Week (running the week of Oct. 9) is a celebration of 50 years of archiving Kentucky’s newspapers in their library.
Joel is expected to talk about his career and influences.
Chad Lowe has taken first place in editorial cartooning in the 2006 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism contest for the 90,000+ circulation category. The awards will be presented to the winners on Oct. 21 in West Palm Beach.