E&P has a great story on Clay Bennett’s year as president of the AAEC (whose term ends this tomorrow). Some of the things I know he had to deal with was the number of cartoonists that lost their jobs or took buyouts: Michael Ramirez, Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher, Stacy Curtis, Tim Menees, David Simpson, and Larry Wright each walked out the door of their respective newspapers – only Michael has regained a staff cartoonist position.
Glenn McCoy will be a featured speaker at the Missouri Press Association’s annual convention this September 15th. He’ll talk about the art of editorial cartooning. Glenn produced editorial cartoons that are syndicated through Universal Press as well as the creator of The Duplex and co-creator of The Flying McCoys which he produces with his brother Gary.
Doug Marlette’s second fictional novel, Magic Time, will be released this September 19th by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Here is the description from Marlette’s web stie:
The Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism contest winners have been announced. The editorial cartoonists who are taking home plaques this year are:
E&P has a pretty good behind the scenes story that was first reported by R.C. Harvey. Is it goes, Mike Luckovich’s Reuben trophy did not arrive in Chicago in time for the award ceremony and so NCS organizers dropped back to plan ‘B’ – borrow a trophy from a previous award winner.
The Akron Beacon Journal has announced that it will cut 25% of its staff – approximately 40 people to “align costs with revenues.” Chip Bok, their editorial cartoonist, says he’s not one of them, but two other artists will be losing their jobs. One such artist is Rick Steinhauser who has expressed interest in inking cartoons. If you’re aware of any opportunities contact Chip through his blog.
For the last 13 years, Jefferson City News Tribune editorial cartoonist Jim Dyke has spent his vacation hours doing caricatures at the Missouri State Fair – for the change in pace and to meet and greet news people.
Ted Rall is celebrating 10 years of syndication with Universal Press where he draws cartoons for over 140 newspapers and also produces a weekly column.
From the Great Lakes Chapter of the NCS comes news that Jeff Stahler (Moderately Confused and editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch) will be featured in an upcoming exhibit in West Virginia during the month of September. The exhibit also includes watercolor paintings by Jeff’s mother Wanda. The exhibit is called, “Moderately Confused with Mom.”
Nick Anderson’s latest 3-D animated editorial cartoon has been copied over to YouTube where it has climbed to #11 in most linked to video on YouTube and has been watched 1,273 times.
Montreal Gazette editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher (who uses the pen name Aislin) will be in the spotlight for an episode of Canada’s Life and Times Biography Series.
A few weeks ago, I brought you news that while Mike Luckovich was away on vacation, his paper – the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – held a contest called “Think you can do better?” in which they invited their readers to send an editorial cartoon. The results have been posted (registration required) with the winner going to William Warren won with 541 votes (out of 3,158 cast online). Warren just happens to be this year’s John Locher award winnner from Forest Lake University.
The current package includes Daryl Cagle, Mike Lester, Mike Keefe, Jeff Parker, Larry Wright, Brian Fairrington, R.J Matson, Bob Englehart and Pat Bagley. Looking at the syndicate’s site, it looks like Gary’s cartoons became available just this last Sunday, July 30th.
Aaron Taylor, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Herald in Provo Utah, is one of four cartoonist to join Cagle Cartoon Syndicate according to E&P. The other three are Michael Kountouris of Athens, Greece, Malcolm Evans of New Zealand, and Effat Muhammad of Egypt. Aaron was the 1997 winner of the John Lochcer Award for best college editorial cartoonist.
Dave Astor of Editor and Publisher has written an excellent article (featured on the AAEC web site) on the changing work duties of some editorial cartoonists who have added animation and blogging to their work load. The story features Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Mike Shelton of Orange County Register, Matt Davies of The Journal News, and Clay Jones of The Free Lance-Star.
Regarding the affect of animating cartoonis: