E&P has a story about comments Wiley Miller has made suggesting that in addition to Black Ink Monday, syndicated editorial cartoonists should cease to syndicate their work for a week or even up to a month.“The biggest problem is that staff cartoonists are too easily replaced with cheap syndicated cartoons,” said Miller. So staff cartoonists […]
The Michigan Daily has a story regarding a cartoon that is sparking a possible boycott from the NAACP.The University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People may be considering boycotting The Michigan Daily because of an editorial cartoon it published Nov. 28. The cartoon displays a classroom of smiling dark-skinned students […]
Winning the pulitzer certainly doesn’t hurt your subscriber-ship. E&P is reporting that Nick Anderson’s client list jumped 22 papers after the pulitzer.WPWG Editorial Director/General Manager Alan Shearer called the 22-client jump “amazing for an editorial cartoonist,” even with a Pulitzer factored in. Shearer noted that editorial cartoons can be a tough sell these days.
Congrats to a bunch of aspiring cartoonists. From a press release off of Universal Presses web site: Student Cartoonists’ Awards Announced Kansas City, MO (12/05/2005) Four first place winners were selected among many aspiring young cartoonists who participated in the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) /Associate Collegiate Press Cartooning (ACP) Awards, co-sponsored by Universal Press […]
Pat Bagley, editorial cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune, will be signing his new book at Ken Sander’s Rare Books on Friday, December 9, at 7pm. Bagley’s book “Clueless George” is available at Amazon books.The last place you’d expect to hear that political cartoonist Pat Bagley got his start is BYU. But there you have […]
Clay Bennett spoke on NPR All Things Considered today to discuss the current state of editorial cartooning. You can listen to archived audio of the interview on NPR’s siteMajor U.S. newspapers continue to cut staff to offset disappointing revenue. But recent layoffs and buyouts at two newspapers owned by the Tribune Company prompted editorial cartoonists […]
Cartoonist J.P. Trostle has quit his job with the Herald-Sun citing “It was not a good place to work any more.”J.P. Trostle resigned last week as a designer and illustrator at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. As part of that job, he also did editorial cartoons for the newspaper’s Chapel Hill Herald edition. Trostle told […]
Editorial cartoonists are banding together on this coming Monday to protest the recent lay-offs in their industry. Members of the AAEC are encouraged to do a cartoon criticizing the layoffs. The cartoons will be posted together on the AAEC website.Editorial cartoonists are joining together for a “Black Ink Monday” protest, E&P has learned. On Dec. […]
Daryl Cagle’s web log (scroll down) is reporting that KAL (Kevin Kallaugher), editorial cartoonist for the Balimore Sun, will accept the company’s buyout and leave the paper.Sources tell us that another Tribune company cartoonist bit the dust as the Baltimore Sun’s Kevin Kallaugher (Kal) has accepted a buyout offer. It is expected that the Sun […]
Lucia Rather former director for cataloging at the Library of Congress, gave a lecture at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah on the 28th of November. She contends that political cartoons are propaganda and not art.“A political cartoon is not just a picture, it’s a graphic illustration of an idea…the purpose […]
Dick Wright, syndicated editorial cartoonist, will be retiring from cartooning to concentrate on pastoring a church he helped found six years ago.“I have found my heart is with the pastoring at this point,” he added. “I’m really excited about helping people. I enjoyed cartooning immensely, but I think I’ll enjoy this more.”Link: E&P
Philadelphia’s police commissioner publically took issue with a recent cartoon by the Daily News editorial cartoonist, Signe Wilkinson.In the cartoon depicts “a Ku Klux Klan travel agent touting Philadelphia as a place with ‘great views of young black men killing each other.’”“I take it as a personal insult,” Johnson said. “Not just as the police […]
The United Nations Correspondents Association will announce the winners of its 2005 UNCA Awards tonight at their annual Dinner and Dance.Of interest to editorial cartoonists is the Ranan Lurie Award for political cartooning ($10k to the winner). The UNCA Awards were established in 1995 to encourage in depth coverage of the United Nations and its […]
Orlando Sentinel has announced that it is laying off 21 of its employees. Dana Summers, their staff editorial cartoonist, will not be one of them. From an email Dana writes:I’m not affected. I try to do as many local cartoons as possible to make myself valuable to the paper. I do 4 for TMS and […]
Chip Bok, editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal, will be in D.C for a book signing. His new book, “A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok, was published earlier this year and can be had at Amazon.com. From his blog:If you’re near the University Club at 1135 Sixteenth […]