Prickly City cartoonist Scott Stantis has a op-ed piece with his take on the Mohammad cartoon controversy.Newspapers with a long and storied history of cartoonists have seen fit to cut loose this valuable resource. Papers like the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun are now without a staff cartoonist. The Chicago Tribune recently dedicated a […]
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. It’s unknown whether this will be a regular thing. Perhaps Walt will be taking Mark Fiore on as the king of animated editorial cartoons?
From Daryl Cagle’s “blog” (scroll down to 2nd story in Feb 18th posting):A knowledgeable source tells me that the Village Voice, the New York alternative tabloid with a great tradition of editorial cartoonists going back for decades – including Jules Feiffer and Ed Sorel – will stop running editorial cartoons, and any future cartoons will […]
Chris Lamb, the author of the book Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons, has a great editorial in the Rhode Island Providence Journal about the power of editorial cartoons. According to him, violent reactions to cartoons have also occured on American soil.This is not the first time an editorial cartoonist has […]
As posted on Ted’s blog, he will be at the upcoming NY Comic Con and will be available to sign and sell books.New Yorkers attending next week’s New York Comic Con should bring their Ted Rall books for me to sign. I’ll be at the NBM Publishing table 6-8 pm Friday and 3-5 Saturday?Sunday TBD. […]
While this may have very little impact to readers of this site, I post it nonetheless on the grounds that it has nothing to do with the Mohammad cartoon contoversy. With that admission, here is the story. Enjoy.London’s first cartoon museum, with 3,000 books and 1,200 images, covers three centuries, from Georgian Rowlandson watercolours of […]
Bill Day asked six other editorial cartoonists (Rex Babin, Chip Bok, Chris Britt, J.D. Crowe, Matt Davies, Steve Sack) to post their most controversial editorial cartoons and the reaction they received. You can see the cartoons and the reactions on the Commercial Appeal web site.
Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has written an editorial for the Chicago Tribune on his reaction of the Danish Mohammad cartoons. He also addresses the impact of the cartoons on American editorial cartoonists.Things have changed greatly since Mr. Nast’s day. We who work as cartoonists in the United States must always be aware […]
In what could be a very interesting discussion, Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak on the role and responsibilities of being an artist in today’s hyper-sensative world. Signe Wilkinson, political cartoonist at the Philadelphia Daily News, will discuss the role and the responsibilities of artists in today’s political […]
Mark Fiore’s animated editorial cartoons will be honored at a March 8 awards dinner to receive the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award. The Madison award is given to those who have fought for public access to government meetings and records and promoted the public?s right to know. Mark’s […]
Ten more people were killed in rioting over the Danish Mohammad cartoons – this time in Lybia. This report brings the death count to 29.Ten people are reported dead in Libya, where police opened fire yesterday on a stone-throwing mob that set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi. At least four people have been […]
Editorial cartoonist and “?Suburban Cowgirls” artist Edward Colley was taken to the hospital after a serious car crash earlier this week.Newspaper cartoonist Edward Colley was hospitalized in fair condition following an accident at noon yesterday. Colley, 68, of Holmes Street, was injured when his car collided with a pickup truck on County Road at about […]
The Greenwich Post’s editorial cartoonists Bobbi Eggers and Jane Condon have taken home the bronze in the New England Press Association Better Newspaper Contest this year in editorial cartooning. The Greenwich Post is a weekly paper serving Greenwich CT. Staff reporter Ken Borsuk took home third place for Business Reporting, staff photographer David Ames won […]
A Pakistani cleric is offering 1.5 million rupee (US$16,700) and a car to anyone who kills a Danish cartoonist who drew the now infamous Mohammad cartoons.Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, announced at the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school that he leads […]
Off topic, but interesting. When the Americans were angered by France’s unwillingness to support the Iraq war, we renamed our beloved french fries to “Freedom Fries.” Now, in what I can only hope as a small step forward in non-volient free speech – many Iranians are renaming their Danish Pastries to “Roses of the Prophet […]