This year’s Herblock Prize has been awarded to John Sherffius of the Camera of Boulder, Colorado.From the judges: “John’s work exemplifies the best the art of editorial cartooning has to offer. Through a potent combination of excellent drawing technique, striking original imagery, and passionate conviction, his cartoons kick you in the gut. They are not […]
Sean Hoy will be releasing his fifth book, Out of the Cup, a collection of coffee cartoons soon. Sean is an editorial cartoonist, illustrator out of Arizona and produces topical cartoon collections for golfers, dog lovers, cowboy/westerners, and office dwellers. You can check out his stuff at Off Kilter CartoonsLio, and Heart of the City […]
Here are a few of the changes on the comic pages:Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse returns to the Sherman Denison Herald Democrat after it was dropped when the paper scaled down to a single page of comics. Tony Murphy’s recently launched It’s All About You has been picked up by the Tampa Bay […]
The alt-weekly and web comic darling, The Perry Bible Fellowship will come to an end according to its creator Nicholas Gurewitch. Nicholas cites, “I’ll be sending another PBF next Monday. After that, I’ll be discontinuing The PBF as a weekly strip.”By my calculation, PBF created just over 201 comics most of which have been published […]
The Chicago Sun-Times is celebrating its 60th birthday and part of that celebration is republishing some of the best cartoons of its history by its staff cartoonists: Bill Mauldin, John Fischetti, Jacob Burck and current cartoonist Jack Higgins.Visit web site for slideshow and to read the full article.
Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne has responded to Jim Borgman’s “February Q’s?” in which he asked if the editorial cartooning profession was due for a make-over. Henry responds: I think you have missed two evolutions in cartooning. First, the Oliphant formula has not been the newspaper standard for some time. Cartoonists as varied as […]
Newsweek has an interesting article about a Mexican editorial cartoonist, Francisco “Paco” Calderon, who works for the Reforma newspaper and his struggle to influence Mexican policy in regard to its relationship with the United States. His contention is that Mexico has played the victim role far too long and that it should work to strengthen […]
In a rare development, the calendar rights to Scott Hilburn’s The Argyle Sweater have been snatched up by Borders even before the comic has entered into print syndication. Borders will sell The Argyle Sweater as one of its top 2009 calendar properties through all of its retail chains and mall kiosks nationwide.
Working It Out and Cafe Con Leche creator Charlos Gary will be doing a series of workplace cartoons entitled “10 Signs That Your Working for a Crazy Boss.” He’s soliciting ideas from his readers.
After the arrest of three men for suspicion of plotting to kill famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, 17 Danish papers have reprinted the 12 Mohammed cartoons “vowing to defend freedom of expression” and in doing so, igniting another round of worldwide protests. Pakistani youth rallied in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and other places burning the Danish […]
The Comic Coast to Coast guys have posted part 2 of their interview with Wiley Miller.From a story about Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould’s daughter being nominated for an Edgar Award we learn that the Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock IL will close in June for economic reasons.NPR interviewed editorial cartoonists KAL (The Economist) and […]
The AAEC has posted a call for submissions for editorial cartoons to be published this fall in two campaign trail collections entitled “ROAD TO DENVER: The Race for the 2008 Democratic Nomination” and “ROAD TO MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL: The Race for the 2008 Republican Nomination.” The books will be published by Pelican Publishing in August. A […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist/illustrator Tom Richmond, has posted the first of a multi-part series on how to do caricatures. Iâ??ve been working with young caricaturists at theme parks for over two decades now, and Iâ??ve learned one very important lessonâ?¦ itâ??s impossible to teach someone to draw caricatures. I can teach them to DRAWâ?¦ that isnâ??t […]
Blaming it on the February blahs, Cincinnati Enquirer’s Jim Borgman asks a series of questions regarding the state of editorial cartooning. He asks: Isn’t this profession due for a makeover? The last Renaissance was more than forty years ago when Oliphant came to the states (with Rigby, Low and Searle in his suitcase) and reinvented […]
Magic in a Minute, a how-to comic on magic is now available through Universal Press Syndicate. This Sunday only feature, by Mac King (a Las Vegas magician) and illustrated by Bill King (Mac’s cousin), teaches children how to perform magic tricks. Magic in a Minute was previously syndicated through Tribune Media Syndicate.See samples: