The National Cartoonist Society has awarded this year’s Silver T-Square to Stu Rees for his contribution to the organization in legal matters. His service has “saved the society an immence amount of money.”“Itâ??s been a real privilege to work for the NCS and individual cartoonists for the last 10 years now and I hope to […]
Live notes during Sandra Boynton’s session who entitled her presentation as “Epistemological Foundations of Highly Erratic Image-Based Inquiry: the role of quasi discursive optimism in a vast and apparently indifferent realism”Sandra was born into a “government issued 1950’s family” and attended a quaker school.She went on to Yale (and learned all their fight songs!). She […]
Notes taken live during Mort Gerberg’s presentation:When Mort began his career, he was told cartooning was a dying art, so he decided to diversify. Over the course of his career he did his magazine cartoons, editorial illustration, comic strips, cartoons for late-breaking news on television, appearances on children’s show, newspaper reporting, advertising designs, writing books […]
I’m traveling today to New Orleans for the NCS Reuben Award weekend and won’t be actively blogging. I will be blogging throughout the weekend. If you go to my special Reuben Award 2008 page, you can see photos, as well as get the headlines and Twitter posts related to the big event this weekend.
While Wiley Miller opts to make his Reuben Award winner prediction in a retractable-less cartoon that’s set to print on Sunday – just hours after the formal announcement is made, Tom Heintjes, editor of “Hogan’s Magazine” has posted his predictions for all the division awards as well as the Reuben Award. NOMINEES FOR THE REUBEN […]
Normally I don’t post news over the weekend, but I’ll be attending this year’s Annual National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards weekend in New Orleans. The trip will be as much work as it will be pleasure. I’ll be posting photos and reporting on the speakers, awards and whatever on-the-record news items I discover throughout the […]
Today marks Scott Stantis’ 30 year mark from the first time one of his editorial cartoons was published. His first editorial cartoon was published in the San Pedro News-Pilot in 1978 for $10. I had actually sold the cartoon 10 days before but, for some reason, the editor held it. I was going out to […]
Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson and Argyle Sweater creator Scott Hilburn will be featured on this week’s Washington Posts Meet the Comic Pages online chat.Washington Post Comics page editor Suzanne Tobin will be at this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s convention this year where the chat session will happen. You can send advanced questions through […]
We can all decrement the count of staff cartoonists in the U.S. by one more as of yesterday. David Catrow has announced that he is leaving the Springfield News-Sun after 25 years as their editorial cartoonist to spend more time on illustrating children’s books and developing animated films. “It’s bittersweet,” Catrow, 55, said. “I really […]
Maumee Dearest © Kirk WaltersKirk Walter’s comic Maumee Dearest has turned 20. The weekly local political comic strip runs in the Toledo Blade (OH). Kirk explains how the feature came to be: It’s hard to believe that Maumee Dearest is now 20 years old. My editor at the time was Bernard Judy and I walked […]
From an interview with Brenda Bowen on the Publisher’s Weekly blog comes news that For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston will publish a full-color children’s picture book that is scheduled to hit bookstores next summer.She says, In summer â??09, we also have a book by cartoonist Lynn Johnston, who is the author and […]
Wiley Miller is taking a bold risk. This Sunday’s Non Sequitur will congratulate the winner of the Reuben Award that won’t even be announced until this Saturday night. He tells Dave Astor that he’s “crawled out on that limb.”The finalist’s this year are: Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Dan Piraro (Bizarro), and Mad magazine cartoonist Al […]
A cartoonist in Turkey has been indicted for insulting a supreme court prosecutor in a cartoon that was published March 19th. The cartoonist, Ibrahim Ozdabak, drew an owl sitting on a branch, wearing a judge’s robe and hooting “Huguk! Huguk!” in an play on Turkish word for “law” (huhuk). The cartoon did not name any […]
Members of the Dutch lower house will debate on the arrest of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot who was arrested and detained for 30 hours last week for publishing on the internet cartoons that some deemed to “exceed the limits of freedom of expression.” Party members across the political spectrum are questioning the arrest as a violation […]
Denver Square © Ed SteinToday marks the end of Ed Stein’s 11 year run with his local daily comic strip Denver Square that ran in the Rocky Mountain News. While other local comic strips exist in America, Ed’s feature was the last daily local feature.The local CBS affiliate television station did a report on Ed, […]