I’ve been subscribed to Scott Stantis’ RSS feed for a while now, so I was a bit embarrassed when a reader emailed me tell me about his blog and I realized I hadn’t even mentioned it yet. Scott, who is the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News has been posting his cartoons via the blog […]
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for the D.C. rag Politico, writes in to announce that Ann Telnaes’ animated editorial cartoons are now featured in the British newspaper web site – the Guardian. The Guardian is one of England’s flagship newspapers.
From ComicsDC blog comes news that four nationally known cartoonists’ work has been included in the Smithsonian’s American Presidents exhibit. Pat Oliphant’s work includes some of his sculptures of various presidents. Edward Sorels has a caricature/painting of Jimmy Carter depicted as Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Jack Davis has a caricature of President Nixon shaking […]
Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post has won the Freedom of the Press award from the Anti-Defamation Legue’s Mountain States Office for his cartoons about bigotry and separation of church and state.
Despite living in the Chicago area for nearly two decades, Hal Foster’s work, Prince Valiant was never published in the area newspapers, nor any of his art work been displayed in area museums. But one 78 year-old fan has worked to create an exhibit of 50 enlarged and restored reprints that will open Monday at […]
Paul Combs, the former Tampa Tribune editoral cartoonist (now syndicated through TMS) has started a blog on his web site where you can keep up with his many illustrations and cartoons.
I found this blog post interesting in the question that it poses. Is Michael Ramirez Jeff MacNelley’s successor in regards to unmatched artistic ability? Pulitzer-Prize-winning political cartoonist Michael Ramirez is Jeff MacNelly’s brilliant successor in political cartoon artistry. His work is like no one else’s. And here’s the best part: He has the same opinion […]
Mike Keefe is another cartoonist that is openly advocating that animated editorial cartoons should not be judged along side of print editorial cartoonists. In a comment posted on Daryl Cagle’s blog, Mike responds to earlier comments by Scott Stantis I am a great fan of editorial cartoon animation and have tried my hand at it […]
Matt Wuerker, the editorial cartoonist who is shaking things up in D.C. (not his official title), has posted a very cool interactive map of the political blogosphere. If you’re a political junkie – this is a fun way to find more blogs to fill up your day reading more slanted demagoguery.
The 30 editorial cartoons that were auctioned off to raise money for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ Cartoons for the Classroom program has garnered the AAEC an estimated $5,747 based on yesterday’s closing bidding numbers. The largest bid went for a Tom Toles original for $306.00 with 10 bidders. The most active bidding centered […]
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise has dropped the use of upstate New York freelance cartoonist Mark Wilson (aka “Marquil”) after they ran a cartoon critical of New York State’s handling of an armed standoff. Complaints flooded in and the paper caved (link provided goes to a google cached version of the story as the original is […]
Canadian cartoonist Ben Wicks, who died in 2000, was one of Canada’s great cartoonists, but was perhaps not the best at archiving and filing his artwork. Recently, two brothers found three bags full of Ben’s cartoons in the garage of a home they had purchased from the Wicks in 1992. The collection of cartoons are […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has created a stir with supporters of mayoral candidate Chaka Fatta with a recent cartoon. The cartoon is described as: The cartoon satirized Fattah’s criticism of rival Michael Nutter’s “stop, question and frisk” anti-crime proposal, by showing Fattah speaking to two young children whose bodies have large bullet […]
Last month I raised questions on how animation should be weighed in the judging for a Pulitzer Prize. The Birmingham News editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis has written a column opining that animated cartoons shouldn’t even been in allowed into competition. From Editor and Publisher, here are excerpts of his column: “We were led to believe […]
Picture above captured from video on Nick’s blog. I had noticed that Nick Anderson’s editorial cartoons were only in black in white recently, but didn’t know why. Over on his blog, he’s posted a video on how he’s coping with a drawing-hand injury. He mentions that it will be another two weeks before the cast […]