On the Editorial Cartoonist web site, they’re reposting a story that ran in the “The Business Journal of Phoenix” regarding the plight of the editorial cartoonist. Not much new, but it does talk abit about Steve Benson (AZ Republic), Brian Fairrington (Cagle Cartoons – living in the Phoenix area).Those who have made editorial cartooning their […]
Steve Kelley, a political cartoonist from “The New Orleans Times-Picayune,” will be speaking at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel’s annual seminar. He’s spoken there before and this year, he speaks before Dan Rather, former CBS News anchor. According to the schedule, his talk is entitled, “Art Irritates Life”.
E&P has a story on why Nick Anderson is leaving the Courier-Journal for the Houston Chronicle.Whatever the attractions of Houston, Anderson wasn’t looking to go to the Chronicle or anywhere else. “They contacted me out of the blue in August or September,” he recalled. “I was skeptical. I had the perfect situation in Louisville.” Anderson […]
From The Pilot (North Carolina) comes the sad news of the passing of Stan Hunt who was their editorial cartoonist for about 9 years. He was also an illustrator and a golf columnist. He was 77 years old.After his military service, Hunt attended New York School of Art, where he studied airbrush and photo retouching. […]
Steve Nease had 15 cartoons published in the Portfoolio 21 this year – more than any other cartoonist. Steve Nease has 15 cartoons in Portfoolio 21, The Year’s Best Canadian Editoral Cartoons– that’s the most of the 42 artists who cracked this year’s edition. “It’s always an honour to be included in the annual best-of […]
Canadian editorial cartoonists wishing to compete in the annual Atlantic Journalism Awards need to have their entries postmarked no later than January 31 of this year.Atlantic Canadian journalists are reminded to submit their print, radio and television stories and images to the 25th Atlantic Journalism Awards. The entries should be postmarked no later than Tuesday, […]
Investor’s Business Daily has hired Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez to serve as a senior editor/editorial cartoonist.“For the last five years we’ve expanded the depth and content of our editorial page, and Michael is a part of that ongoing effort,” said William J. O’Neil, founder and chairman of Investor’s Business Daily. “He’ll make a strong […]
Nick Anderson, the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning, is leaving the Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) and taking a staff position at the Houston Chronicle. The announcement first appeared on Poynter’s online forum.It has been one of the most difficult decisions my wife and I have ever made. We love Louisville, and I love my […]
Clay Jones, editorial cartoonist for the Fredericksburg, has a blog courtesy of his newspaper. It appears he spends most of time talking about the cartoon he drew that day or the day before. There is no RSS feed if you want subscribe to the blog. Usually when I do this type of stuff I’m racking […]
Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnatti Enquirer and cartoonist for Zits, has started a blog. The “BorgBlog” as it is titled contains images taken from his sketchbook. Ten years into my professional career, a writer friend introduced me to a different concept of an artist?s sketchbook. In her journal she kept the most random […]
A small Indiana weekly, Brown County Democrat, has won a couple of awards including editorial cartoonist Irene Joslin who took second place in editorial cartooning. The Democrat?s editorial cartoonist, Irene Joslin, received second-place accolades among all non-daily newspapers for her work, which the judges said were ?well-crafted cartoons with a point to make. Beautifully drawn!?
Details are sketchy, but Ed Williams, editor of the editorial page for the Charlotte Observer, has mentioned that starting next month their staff cartoonist, Kevin Siers, will draw a weekly editorial cartoon and allow readers to submit the caption. The nice thing about his targets is that, unlike clay pigeons and popped balloons, they keep […]
Daryl Cagle has been interviewed by the Santa Barbara News-Press about his cartoons, syndicate and latest book, The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2006 Edition. On my Web site, I have what I call “Yahtzees,” which is when all the cartoonists happen to draw the same thing at the same time. I put them […]
NPR had Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters on to discuss their favorite cartoons of the year. You can see a sample of their favorite cartoons on the NPR site and also click to listen to the interview. Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News have each […]
Our good cartooning friends to the north are having good fun with the current election. See what they’re up to. Thirty days into the federal election campaign, editorial cartoonists are having no trouble drawing inspiration from the campaign trail. In an interview from Halifax on Wednesday, Halifax Daily News cartoonist Michael DeAdder says the campaign […]