Nick Anderson writes in to bring attention to an international humor festival in Tolentino, Italy this summer. The organizers would like more american cartoonists to enter. The theme is: “Che fine ha fatto il maschio. Troppa mamma, troppa famiglia, troppo lavoro?” (translation: Where has the macho gone off to? Too many mummy’s boys, too many […]
AAEC President Rob Rogers has put out a call for the best editorial cartoons for each presidential election since 1960 for an exhibit at American University’s Katzen Art Center entitled, “Running Out of Ink: 50 Years of Campaign Cartoons.” The exhibit will feature 80 framed original cartoons. Rob is asking fellow editorial cartoonists to send […]
To mark the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War, Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has posted most of his editorial cartoons that he’s drawn on the topic since 2002. A quick count put the total number of cartons at about 70 – some I recognized from his portfolio that won him his Pulitzer.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers will moderate a illustrated panel presentation called “There’s Nothing Funny About War: Editorial Cartoonists Take Aim” on March 28th. The panel will include Ted Rall, Scott Stantis, and Signe Wilkinson. The event is free, but you must reserve your tickets.
Daryl Cagle has posted another audio interview, this time with M.E. Cohen. Scroll down to find the link on his blog.
In a letter to NCS president Rick Stromoski, Carmella LaSpada, the director The Commission on Remembrance, is asking that comic strip and editorial cartoonist to mention Memorial Day in their artwork – specifically on Memorial Day. The commission is a Congressionally created organization tasked to “encourage Americans to honor those who died for our freedoms […]
Last year in February, Tom Toles received a rare and public letter signed by six Joint Chiefs of staff members criticizing him for a cartoon that he did depicting a multiple amputee soldier and a callous Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the latest flap over General Peter Pace’s recent comments calling homosexuality immoral, Tom […]
This week is the annual Sunshine Week. Each year the American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors a campaign to draw attention to the importance of a free and open government and information. And each year, many editorial cartoonists participate by drawing Sunshine Week cartoons or submitted their cartoons on the topic of secrecy. Over at […]
From the AAEC web site comes sad news that the Greenville News (Greenville SC) has eliminated Roger Harvell’s job as a staff editorial cartoonist and has said that there is no funding for the position in the future. The Greenville News has a circulation of 112,000.
Mike Rhode, over at the ComicsDC blog noticed an article in the Washington Post about a cartoon by William Woodward Jr. that recently re-ran (the cartoon was originally published in 2002 and has been printed once before) in the St. Mary Today depicting what many are calling racist because it allegedly depicts three black men […]
The Independent Mail in Anderson SC has added an editorial cartoonist to their opinion page. Al Stine is a local painter who also does cartoons for Playboy. Al Stine is well-known for his exquisite paintings. As the result of a recent newspaper story, you may also be aware of his background as a cartoonist for […]
Here is an interesting story out of the News-Sentinel (Fort Worth, TX) about a woman named Helen Newton who amassed one of the largest private collections of editorial cartoons over the span of 44 years (1939-1983) as a politically active letter writer. The collection includes several Pulitzer Prize winning artists. Here are a few that […]
Head over to Daryl Cagle’s blog to listen to audio of Monte Wolverton talking about his work. Also posted is another audio clip of Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen about his cartoons.
Out on book shelves today is a book I’ve wrote about a couple of weeks ago called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. The author, Dave Wallis, has an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that nicely recaps the major themes of his book. It’s an excellent read and worth a […]
Found an interesting article on a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist named Jay “Ding” Darling who drew cartoons for the Sioux City Journal and Des Moines Register at the beginning of the last century. An active conservationist of his time, he was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1934 to head up U.S. Biological Survey […]