In the category of Editorial Cartooning, the Pulitzer Board has announced this year’s winner to be Michael Ramirez of The Investor’s Business Daily. This is Michael’s second Pulitzer, the first being in 1994 while at the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn).Michael has had a very successful year so far. He was also awarded this year’s Fischetti […]

Tom Batiuk creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean is one of the three finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This is the fourth time a comic strip has been considered for American journalism’s top prize. Two previous comic strippers have won the prize Garry Trudeau (1975) and Berkeley Breathed (1987).According to the judges, Tom’s […]

Whilst sitting at the bar at the next AAEC convention, you can dazzle your peers with some interesting statistics regarding the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.Two comic strips have won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning: Berkeley Breathed (1987) Garry Trudeau (1975) Only two female editorial cartoonists have won: Ann Telnaes (2001) Signe Wilkinson (1992) Five […]

Today is Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater official launch day and Universal Press reports that it has a beginning client list of 130 plus papers. Some of the big papers that have signed up include: The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune and the New York Daily News.The Argyle Sweater […]

Corey Pandolph tells me that his comic Barkeater Lake is going back to a daily schedule on his web site.He writes: I figured out that there are 8 hours in my day that have been wasted on sleep. By adding these hours to my work schedule, I’m now able to write and draw four different […]

The life and work of the late Doug Marlette will be the focus of two community events this spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Hickory Museum of Art has an exhibit of the late Doug Marlette’s work that opened in March runs through September 14th and “The Big Read” – a community reading program will […]

London Metropolitan police have removed an anti-gambling poster featuring an Pat Oliphant editorial cartoon depicting former President Bill Clinton. The poster, meant to warn of dangers of street gambling, were originally produced and hung by police officers in the Green Street Ward. “The poster was intended to tackle the issue of illegal street gamblers in […]

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher marks his 30th anniversary with the Economist this week. To commemorate the occasion, the magazine will be running a variety of multimedia events through the year. The first event is an audio slideshow hosted on their web site.In non-Economist news, KAL’s “Digital Dubya” will team up again with comedy troupe Second City […]

In a story regarding unusual college mascots, CBS News has interviewed Brian Fairrington regarding his redesign of Scottsdale Community College’s Artie the Artichoke mascot that he did for them last year. The school hired editorial cartoonist Brian Fairington recently to toughen up Artie’s image a bit – give him an artichoke make-over. “At first it […]

Jef Mallett, creator of Frazz, has illustrated a new book that is coming out this week called “Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer” The book is written to introduce the not-so-into-it population to the world of bike racing. The publisher suggested that Jef be the illustrator. Last year, Jef ran his first marathon, […]

Brad Guigar, one of the authors of How to Make Webcomics, is producing his third collection of his webcomic Evil Inc.. The book is entitled “Evil Inc Annual Report vol. 3” and ships late May.Describing his book, he writes: This is the third installment of the series of graphic novels based on the daily comic […]

Chad Carpenter’s Tundra is nearing the 200 papers mark according to an article in the Kodiak Daily Mirror. Since their early efforts to take the comic strip to the world outside of Alaska, Carpenter said he has been approached by every syndicate and has turned them down. The only contract he has signed is with […]

Far Side creator Gary Larson will be honored for his contributions to journalism and his Alma Mater, Washington Sate University. He, along with the editor of the Yakima Herald-Republic will be added to the WSU Eduard R. Murrow School of Communications Hall of Achievement.

The Atlantic Journalism Awards nominees have been announced. The finalists in the editorial cartooning category are: Michael de Adder of The Daily News, (Halifax, NS), Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald, (Halifax, NS), and Greg Perry of the Telegraph-Journal, (Saint John, NB). The awards will be presented on May 3rd. The AJA is a Canadian […]

Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers, wrote the original story for the upcoming movie “Alpha and Omega.” The CG movie, which has not yet started production will feature Hayden Panetierre (“Heroes”), Justin Long (Mac in the “I’m a mac, I’m a PC” commercials) have the title roles, with Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and Dennis […]