With so much gloom and doom in the industry, I couldn’t help highlight a heartwarming story that was reported in EastbayRI.com about cartoonist Steve Brosnihan that has been drawing and teaching cartooning to sick children twice a week at his local hospital since 1991. From the article: Steve visits with six or seven patients every […]
Jimmy Margulies, editorial cartoonist for The New Jersey Record, has written the following faux news article to parody the senseless firings of editorial cartoonists. New York ( November 12 ) Harper’s Weekly has eliminated the position of Thomas Nast, famed editorial cartoonist, noted for his pursuit of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall as well as […]
We’ve discussed this issue before: how will a largely liberal editorial cartoonist community deal with a president that many were rooting for? Pat Oliphant, in an article in the Kansas City Star, admits that he likes Obama. In the article he states, “I’m now trying to deal with the dilemma of liking the new guy. […]
Atlanta Constitution Journal editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich has been awarded the Brooke Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement by The Dunwoody Friends of the Library in Dunwoody GA. The award is given to authors who are residents of Georgia. Mike has two book collections of his cartoons: “Lotsa Luckovich” and “Four More Wars.” The award was […]
The Kansas City Star announced that is laying off 50 of its employees, one of which is their editorial cartoonist Lee Judge who has been at the paper for 27 years. Lee, who found out yesterday, tells me that he is still processing the news and working through the system of Human Resources and hasn’t […]
Most of the comic changes listed below have been reported before, but here we go:» The Kennebec Journal picked up Non Sequitur to replace Opus on Sundays. They’ve included an interview with creator Wiley Miller in the announcement.» Candorville and Secret Asian Man are in trial mode at the Sacramento Bee.» The Lawrence Journal-World replaced […]
I just received an email from Steve Greenberg telling me that his job with the Ventura County Star will be eliminated as of Nov. 30. Since 2002, Steve has been with the paper doing editorial graphics and editorial cartoons as a secondary position. He tells me as the single artist, he thought his position was […]
Norm Feuti, creator of Retail, has announced that he is launching his strip Gill as a webcomic beginning today. Gill is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the life of an 8-year-old boy who lives under less than ideal circumstances. Gill is overweight. His parents are divorced. His mother struggles to maintain […]
Editorial Cartoonist for The Economist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be an Artist-in-Residence at Duke University’s Sanford Institute for Public Policy. During his time on campus, from November 10-14, he will be creating a clay sculpture to commemorate the 2008 Presidential campaign. The Sanford Institute will also be holding a forum titled “Laughing at Power: Satire […]
Smart Bomb Interactive has announced that they are releasing a new video game entitled Snoopy Flying Ace the first months of 2010. The video game is described as having, “action, adventure, romance, cow-tipping, and other exercises in heroism too numerous to name.”You can see a video preview of the game at their website.
The Keith Knight cartoon that caused a ruckus in The Montclair State University (NJ) campus paper over the use of the “n-word” has caused another stir in the The Arizona Daily Wildcat (Tuscan, AZ). Lauren LePage, the editor-in-chief told angry protestors that the cartoon was the result of a miscommunication between herself and the managing […]
Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells’ webcomic Skin Horse has joined the GoComics lineup this week. Skin Horse has been running daily since January and is “about the staff of Project Skin Horse, a secret government organization dedicated to the protection of Americaâ??s nonhuman citizens: robots, beast-men, zombies, and other neglected products of mad […]
W.K. Haselden of the Daily Mirror printed 17 Jan 1906British Cartoon archive, based at the University of Kent, has created one of the largest online archives of cartoon art with over 120,000 British political and social cartoons from more than 250 cartoonists going back to the 18th century. The collection also includes present day cartoonist […]
In Robert B. Parker’s latest mystery novel “Rough Weather,” he mentions Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup. On page 269, he writes, “I was studying a strip called Stone Soup, which seemed pretty good, and might fill the void left by Calvin & Hobbes, when Maggie Lane came in to see me.”This is not the first time […]
If you were one of the millions of individuals who tried to get to Berkeley Breathed’s web site on Sunday to learn who correctly guessed the Opus ending, you were not alone in your frustration that the server became overwhelmed. According to the L.A. Times, Berkeley’s website received 10-15 million hits compared to the 1,500 […]