News-a-rama notes that this week’s New Yorker is their annual Cartoon Issue and reports that it includes work, articles or interviews with Stever Brodner, Mike Luckovich (online), Bruce McCall, Joost Swarte, Robert Crumb and an online only interview with Scott Adams.
Maintaining cartoonist Nick Creekmore will have some of his cartoons included an art exhibit exploring subjects of the male identity. The Exhibit opens in Nashville, TN at the Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery with an opening reception on October 30. Exhibit runs through November 26.North Central College’s new Schoenherr Art Gallery will feature an exhibit […]
The editor of the Daily Triplicate (Crescent City, CA), Richard Wiens, writes about the reader reaction to a recent Gary McCoy editorial cartoon depicting former Secretary of State Collin Powell drinking kool-aid in his endorsement of Barack Obama. Along with explaining his philosophy of what makes a great editorial cartoon and how he selects them […]
GoComics has announced that they have added Kim Casali and Bill Asprey’s classic Love Is, Harry Bliss’ Bliss comic panel and Bill Whitehead’s Free Range to their line-up of online offerings. Love Is… and Bliss are TMS features and Free Range is syndicated through Creators.
The National Caricature Network is set to hold their 17th annual convention next week in Raleigh, NC. The convention attracts 200 or so member artists from around the world. At the convention the public is invited to watch in the “Worlds Fastest Artist” competition crowns the fastest artist who draws the most number of live […]
» webcomics.com is now owned and operated by Halfpixel. They’re pushing for it to become a community resource.» Webcomic Idol is underway over at Bomb Shelter Comics. Contests include: Shi Long Pang, The Superfogeys, The Book of Biff, Soul Driver, Simulated Comic Product, Xylia, Newspaper Comic Strip, Marooned, Lawn Darts and Calamities of Nature.» Panel […]
» The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it’s cutting all of its daily editions and focusing on a weekend edition and their web site. I haven’t asked Clay Bennett, their former editorial cartoonist, but I can imagine him thinking his jump to the Chattanooga Times Free Press as being the best move. Ever.» Comic […]
Mike Rhode notes that The Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler’s cartoons have been reduced to the size of an index card 3×4 inches.Mike notes that, “when the paper started a few years ago, Nate’s cartoon ran at about 1/3 of a page and they had two pages of comic strips which are now gone.”
The Montclair State University (NJ) college newspaper has issued an apology for running The K Chronicles strip that used a racial epithet. The Keith Knight cartoon shows a woman going door to door asking people who they’ll vote for and the resident responds with the epithet. The editor, while apologizing for running the cartoon that […]
A couple of news items in the last two days raises the question of how an Obama presidency – the first African-American – would challenge editorial cartoonists. NPR talked to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters of The Dayton Daily News about the presidential campaign so far. Luckovich stated that “Obama is […]
Milwaukee magazine has tried to explain why the Journal Sentinel let go of its cartoonist Stuart Carlson who took a “voluntary” buyout this summer.Longtime Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson didn’t go quietly. “I was told they could not justify having a full-time staff position,” he says. “I voluntarily took the buyout – but […]
ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode has a wrap-up of last week’s presentation of cartoonists at the Writer’s Center in D.C. Presenting included Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson, Economist cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, and Politico cartoonist Matt Wuerker. See the review over at Mike’s blog and his photos that he’s posted on Flickr.
With Opus heading into the sunset, some papers are starting to announce their replacement choices. You can see my earlier story on which papers have picked up the feature. Adding to that list include:Flint (MI) Journal – Get Fuzzy, Champaign (IL) News-Gazette and Akron Beacon-Journal – Pearls Before Swine and the Albuquerque Journal is picking […]
» Comic Book Resources continues highlighting historical editorial cartoonists: Homer Davenport and John “HB” Doyle» Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley will be giving a presentation at Idaho State University on November 7 on the topic of intellectual freedom.» Lexington Herald-Leader’s Joel Pett spoke at Eastern Kentucky University. The campus paper has an excellent write-up.» Austin […]
Tom Richmond, a MAD magazine cartoonist, has announced on his blog that MAD magazine will issue a new collection of movie parodies entitled “MAD About the Movies: Directorâ??s Cut”. This is their second collection – the first was released in 1998. This one, Tom says, is 400 pages, contains 60 movie parodies and only costs […]