Filed under: Editorial cartooning

Dynamic due Daryl Cagle and Brian Fairrington have collaborated once again on another editorial cartoon collection book. This book, The Big Book of Bush Cartoons is listed on Amazon.com, but has not begun shipping.

The Kitsap Sun is a paper in Bremerton WA where Tim Meenes grew up. They’ve published a profile piece on Tim Meenes, editorial cartoonist for the Post Gazette newspaper in Pittsburgh. The article requires free registration.

David Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, has been awarded the Lee Spirit Award which “recognizes outstanding citizenship and personal commitment to the community and Lee” (Lee being the owner of 58 daily papers across the country). In the past year, he made 118 personal appearances, before crowds as small as […]

James O. Goldsborough, a former columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune makes a claim that editorial cartoonist Steve Breen is living “under daily censorship.”When I left, Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist, lived under daily censorship. It was not unusual for Breen’s best cartoons, which are syndicated, to run in newspapers around the country but […]

Creators Syndicate has picked up on a new feature from John Sherffius, former editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The feature “Sam and Me” is about a grandfather helping raise his grand-daughter.Link to story

Current Events magazine is sponsoring an editorial cartoon contest.. The prize is only $50, so it probably isn’t a contest for professional editorial cartoonists. Perhaps a hungry college cartoonist can take a swing at it.Cartoon must by post marked by October 28.

Gov. Bush has been named Steve Rushing to the Hernando County’s 5th Judicial Circuit judge. While his name probably isn’t known inside ‘toonist circles, this lawyer has published over 300 cartoons.He started drawing “Legal Insanity” during law school. He has had more than 300 published, he said, and three different books of them. They were […]

An editorial cartoon created by Andy Marlette, nephew to editorial cartoon Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette, has caused quite a racial fire storm at the University of Florida. The cartoon, published mid-September, is still provoking national attention. Gainsville.com has a write up on the aftermath first published on Sept. 19.The young Marlette stands behind his […]

National Review magazine is celebrating 50 years and in an interview Priscilla Buckley admits that one of her biggest mistakes at the magazine was not hiring Jeff MacNelly. Deciding with Bill that the great Jeff MacNelly, then the cartoonist for the Richman News-Leader was not sophisticated enough for National Review. Five years later, when we […]

I’m a day late reporting this one, but legendary editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad’s work will be featured in an exhibit called “Conrad & the Presidents.” The exhibit will feature more than four dozen cartoons on the subject of the American presidency. From the press release:Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Conrad has skewered 11 presidents – from […]

1996 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez, Los Angeles Times, will be speaking to the Ashbrook Center on the subject of “Journalism, Citizen Politics in a New World Order” on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at noon. There will be a webcast of the speech posted at 12:30 (Eastern Time).