Jim Borgman has an interesting post over on his blog regarding the difficulty of creating an editorial cartoon about the election results before the election has taken place. In past years I’ve played it several ways. Sometimes I’ve chosen an entirely different issue for the cartoon’s topic. This tends to make one look clueless, commenting […]
Mike Luckovich was one of three speakers at the National Cartooning Society’s Southeaster Chapter annual meting in Gainsville over the weekend. According to the Gainsville Times, he was interrupted during his presentation and challenged on one of his cartoon’s assertions that the U.S. uses torture in investigations. The challenger was not named, but eventually silenced […]
Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has announced a new feature on his blog. He has solicited his readers to send him their cartoons and he’ll post them on his blog every Friday.From his blog: Have you always wanted to be a cartoonist? Can’t stand my cartoons? Want to see your own published here? Here’s […]
Kathleen Breeden, the cartoonist at the center of case of plagiarism at Harvard, has come out saying that only one of the cartoons was copied and the others are her original ideas. She even goes as far as saying she’s willing to take a lie detector test to prove it. Breeden said she takes full […]
Jeff Parker, editorial cartoonist for Florida Today, has launched his blog. He writes in to say that he’s been maintaining it for about a month now and: I post my cartoons, write about cartooning or being a cartoonist, occasionally post sketches and doodles, swap comments and offer a caption contest for our readers. I find […]
The story that I covered yesterday regarding the Harvard Crimson editorial cartoonist Kathleen Breeden that was fired for alleged plagiarism is getting some national attention in some big newspapers. The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the New York Sun are just a few of the papers to report on the incident.Reaction from the cartoonists that […]
From the LA Times comes a story that the LA Daily News has laid off the paper’s publisher and 20 others. The Daily News is home to editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor who reports that his job has not been directly affected. Patrick does mention that the ousted publisher has been a great advocate of his work and as he puts it: “championed my work and stuck up for me when I was under fire.”Â
The Harvard Crimson’s editorial cartoonist, Kathleen Breeden’s editorial cartoons are coming under scrutiny for possible plagiarism. An unnamed individual informed the the newspaper Saturday and pointed out the similarities of her work with those on Cagle.com. In question are four cartoons published on September 22nd and October. 11, 18 and 25th.
Mark Anderson points us to an article over in the Chicago Tribune about a Bill Mauldin exhibit that opened up on Friday at the Jean Albano Gallery. There are some interesting historical tidbits about Bill that I didn’t know, such as:
The last couple of weeks have been pretty eventful around in Gardner home and when I get squeezed for time, I can’t highlight every story that lands in my inbox. As an attempt to catch some of those things that would normally fall through the cracks, I’m starting a new feature called the Remaindered Links.
Miami Herald Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist Jim Morin has a new exhibit called The Incomparable Jim Morin which features his paintings. The exhibit opens this Sunday with an opening reception and then runs through December 3rd at the Alper Jewish Community Center.Â
Jules Feiffer has been honored by the School of Visual Arts on Tuesday of this week. The school held a reception and dinner in his honor to kick off a new exhibit called The Masters Series: Jules Feiffer. The exhibit contains works of art that span his 50 year career of cartoons, illustrations and water colors.
For the second week in a row, an editorial cartoonist has been given the proverbial pink slip. This time Scott Nychay of the Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, Il) according the the AAEC. Scott has been with the paper for the last eight years and has won numerous awards for the paper and even helped raise $50,000 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami victims through reprints of his cartoons.
Last May, Paul Combs announced that he was leaving his editorial cartooning position with the Tampa Tribune to return back to Ohio. He hinted that there were cartoon related opportunities possibilities awaiting and now Editor & Publisher reports that Paul will be doing three cartoons a week with Tribune Media Services and will also be doing local cartoons for The Crescent-News in Defiance, Ohio. He’ll continue to do firefighting (his occupation before he got into editorial cartooning).
Cagle has posted news that he’s wrapped up the book The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2007 and that it will be on bookstore shelves before Christmas. The book will have 288 pages and you will also be available in electronic version. Cagle also addresses a lot of complaints editorial cartoonists have leveled at him over the years about his book.