The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted the schedule and agenda of their annual conference that will be held this June 7-10 in Denver. The Danish cartoon will dominate two sessions and will also include two national figures: U.S. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col., 1974-86) and National Public Radio’s Scott Simon.Visit the AAEC for more details.Hat tip to E&P for pointing out the schedule.
The Montclair Times has posted a job opening for an editorial cartoonist to “local, regional and national issues.”… Skilled with artistic and satirical flair?After more than eight years of creating incisive, poignant, and witty editorial cartoons for The Montclair Times, Bill Valladares will be departing the area for a new job in Georgia.The Times seeks a editorial cartoonist who can nail local, regional and national issues on deadline pressure, usually intertwined with The Times? editorial stances.
Kirk Anderson has been added to the Universal Press line up of editorial cartoonists according to Editor and Publisher…. Paul Pioneer Press from 1995 to 2003 before being laid off.
Before Ann Telnaes became the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartooning, she was an animator for Disney. One of her animated shorts that she created while a student at California Institute of the Arts will be part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City according to Editor and Publisher.The exhibit, entitled “Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures” runs May 25-Aug.
This Sunday, Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist from the Village Voice, will be at the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City to sign his book “A Room with a Zoo.” The book signing runs from 1:30 to 2:30.
This year’s Associated Press Society of Ohio award for editorial cartooning goes to Jim Borgman who is celebrating 30 years with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Second and third place go to Jeff Darcy of the Plain Dealer (Cleveland) and Chip Bok of the Akron Beacon Journal.Jerry King, who contributes editorial cartoons to The Independent, also took first place in editorial cartooning, presumably in a different circulation size category.
The AAEC website provides more details – one important one being that Larry will not actually be leaving the paper permanently. He’ll still be providing editorial cartoons 3 times a week and continue to work on the paper’s web site which he has done since the mid-nineties.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/OPINION03/604300301/1271Also leaving the Web team is Larry Wright , an extraordinarily talented cartoonist and our long-suffering softball coach. Larry learned the hard way that journalists write because they can’t play.
This year’s 38th annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for editorial cartooning went to John Backderf an alternative newspaper cartoonist who draws the comic “The City.”From the press release:Derf aggressively attacks the institutions, ideologies and attitudes that create an environment for the continuing oppression and exploitation of the powerless.
More details are emerging about Paul Comb’s departure from the Tampa Tribune next month…. Apparently the Comb family didn’t take to Florida and are moving back .
Joe Heller, editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette will join several other Wisconsin artists to decorate 40 large butterfly, frog and beetle statues that will be placed in several places through out the city this summer…. The Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist will translate to powder-coated aluminum what he has long put on paper: a slew of newsmakers past and present.”It’s going to be presidents, state and local politicians and working my way into entertainers that are political and politicians that are entertainers ? anybody with a mouth and an opinion,” said Heller, who plans to attach a key to identify all the characters.
As if the Pulitzer and SPJ award was not enough – Mike Luckovich has won the Overseas Press Club award for editorial cartooning. The prize was given to two cartoonists this year.
Last Thursday I broke the story that The Tampa Tribune was hiring a new editorial cartoonist…. Daryl Cagle picks up the story and explains that Paul Combs is leaving the paper.
The serious issues Bennett deals with, and the thoughtfulness with which he treats them, are in direct contrast to the way he begins his work: When he’s thinking about ideas for cartoons, he doodles. His desk and the floor of his office are littered with dozens of pieces of paper covered with doodles.”It sounds so mindless, and editorial cartooning is so mindful,” he says, but “I doodle all the time.”Clay has been with the Science Christian Monitor since 1998.
From Jim Borgman’s blog comes news that he’s been named as a finalist in this year’s EPpy Award given out by Editor and Publisher. The EPpy’s honor internet sites that are affiliated with the media industry. Jim was nominated for the Best Media-Affiliated News Blog and goes up against DayWatch (jsonline.com) and Crime Scene on […]