Kurt Westergaard, the controversial cartoonist drew the now infamous cartoonist of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban was honored last week with the Sappho Award by the Danish Free Press Society. The award, named after the Greek poet Sappho, comes with a $4,200 prize and statue.
Franklin Folger, creator of The Girls has left $250,000 to the Art Academy of Cincinnati to create an endowment to purchase artwork for the academy’s collections according to E&P. Franklin died last November.
In a three-part article, Omaha World-Herald editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba writes his personal history as a child discovering cartooning and his efforts to become a professional cartoonist. On my first day as The World-Herald’s new cartoonist, Frank Partsch, then the editor of the editorial pages, led me to what he called “the cartoonist’s office.” It […]
Rarely do I diverge from the hard news of the cartoon industry, but I’d like to take a personal moment to wish my Mom a happy birthday today. I think turning 70 is a milestone that should be celebrated, but she doesn’t seem to think so. She’s a bit self-conscience about things like that.Because this […]
The Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has issued a call to cartoonists around the world to flood the Dutch Ministry of Justice with emails with their cartoons – all of their cartoons. According to CRNI, the arrest of Dutch cartoonist Gregorious Neskschot has been revealed that the Dutch Secret Service has a division “dedicated to […]
David Reddick, who draws The Trek Life, Gene’s Journal and Rod & Berry is now launching another online webcomic entitled Legend of Bill. Legend is about Bill who leaves his 9-5 job as a file intern in search of adventure with his sidekick, Frank (a blue dragon).The feature will be updated twice a week on […]
The New Yorker is changing a Harry Bliss cartoon’s attribute on its website after a professor in Wisconsin contacted the magazine and then New York newspapers alerting them that the Bliss cartoon looked like a 1962 “Tales to Astonish” comic book cover by Jack Kirby. A spokesman for the New Yorker says that Harry’s attempt […]
Bil Keane’s wife, Thelma, has passed away at the age of 82. Bil based the Family Circus mom character after his wife. “I give all the credit to my wife Thel who was the inspiration for all the cartoons,” Keane told the Republic. “She was very, very vital to any success that I had. When […]
The National Cartoonist Society has awarded this year’s Reuben Award for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the year to Al Jaffee. Al is a legendary cartoonist who is best known for his MAD Magazine’s Fold-in. He joined Mad Magazine in 1964.
This year’s Newspaper Panel division award has been given to Chad Carpenter who draws the self-syndicated comic panel Tundra. Chad’s feature is one of the most successful self-syndicated strips in newspapers appear in over 200 papers in North America.
Bil Schorr was honored with this year’s NCS Division award in the category of Editorial Cartoons.“I’d like to thank Mike Ramirez for leaving one award for the rest of us,” Bill joked as he received the award.
Jim Meddick has been awarded Best Newspaper Strip by the NCS for his comic strip Monty
Tom Richmond has been awarded the Advertising Illustration award. Tom is a MAD Magazine cartoonist since 2000. He won this division award previously in 2003.
This year’s NCS divison award for Book Illustration goes to Sandra Boynton. Sandra’s career began in greeting cards and then into children’s board books. She’s also produced four albums based on her children’s books. She was honored with this year’s NCS Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sean Kelly was honored by the NCS in the category of Best Newspaper Illustration.