Pittsburgh Magazine has named ToonSeum Executive Director Joe Wos as one of “Top 40 under 40” in this November’s special issue. The “40 Under 40” recognizes 40 talented individuals under the age of 40 who are making a positive impact on the region’s development.Joe is the founder of the ToonSeum, Pittsburgh?s Museum of Cartoon Art. […]

I’ve been impressed with how often Ted Rall is updating his blog, and with the insights he brings to it. I also hope he keeps his head down — they’ve already had one run-in and a few surprises. Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of his work, but this isn’t “generally speaking.”If you aren’t following […]

Yesterday I posted a video of San Diego Union-Tribute editorial cartoonist Steve Breendiscussing his BP oil spill cartoons using actual oil from the spill. The video below is a newly produced video that shows footage of Steve collecting the oil and experimenting mixing it with gasoline.

The Director of National Intelligence Lt. General James R. Clapper has allegedly altered a Daryl Cagle cartoon during a presentation. The Washington Post reports:A final slide showed he was under no illusions about the pressure and expectations he faced. He had adapted a cartoon by Daryl Cagle of Slate.com depicting a grim Clapper in an Uncle Sam […]

Kieran Meehan’s “Pros & Cons” doesn’t seem to spend as much time with the psychologist as with the cop and lawyer, but he does makes those visits count.

Perhaps no other cartoon since Mike Luckovich’s “WHY?” cartoon has an editorial cartoon received so much press (Delona’s chimp cartoon is perhaps the only exception). The San Diego Union-Tribute has posted a video of Steve Breen discussing his BP oil spill cartoons using actual oil from the spill. Here it is:Hat tip to Rob Tornoe.

There are few details regarding this story, so I’m not sure what to make of it other than if true, a Yemen editorial cartoonist has been “forcible disappeared.” The Armies of Liberation website reports that Security authorities arrested cartoonist Kamal Sharef and confiscated his personal belongings including a laptop computer. Others arrested included his brother […]

Candorville creator Darrin Bell has created a weekly long tribute series premiering today to honor Cathy Guisewhite who announced she is ending her comic strip, Cathy after 34 years. Darrin, on why he’s decided to do the tribute series says, “I have no idea whether MY readership is familiar at all with Cathy, but I […]

Obviously, the name of the blog suggests only featuring one strip per day, but I thought it noteworthy that two cartoonists — Lalo Alcaraz and Darrin Bell — chose to salute the retiring Cathy on the same day. And a pretty good unintentional segue between them, don’t you think? Cathy Guisewhite’s decision to retire is […]

Brewster Rockit, Space Guy, has gradually degenerated into random, stupid jokes like this.I’m really becoming quite fond of it.

(This is the last in a series of interviews I did with cartoonists in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. It was roughly timed to co-incide with Blondie and Dagwood’s 75th anniversary strip, which we ran extra-large by dropping a half-page of ad space in the Sunday comics section and rotating it 90 […]

Last June, I directed your attention to a newly launched site by eight cartoonists (Tom Batiuk, Dave Coverly, Greg Evans, Peter Guren, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Mike Luckovich and Jerry Scott) to showcase their studios and their work. They’ve added six more cartoonists: Chuck Ayers (Crankshaft), Jenny Campbell (Flo and Friends), Brian Crane (Pickles), Jan […]

The 2010 Ignatz Award nominees have been announced. The award is given for outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. Here are this year’s nominees:Outstanding Artist Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions) Al Columbia, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books) Mike Dawson, Troop 142 (self-published & […]

Agnes is apparently channeling St. Augustine.*I like the idea of “playing the holy card.” In the good old days of meatless Fridays, holy cards were like baseball cards for Catholics, only there would be a prayer on the back instead of statistics about the saint pictured on the front. They were also printed on paper […]

Every Friday morning on my way to work, I listen to StoryCorp at the end of NPR’s Morning Edition. I was happy to see an email from StoryCorps telling me that they’ve produced a series of animated shorts of some of the stories collected through their program. You can check them out at their website. […]