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Tom Richmond to teach caricature, inking

Tom Richmond will be at a “mini-con” sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of the National Caricaturist Network on March 2-5, 2008. He’ll be the main speaker and will also be leading an inking workshop. The inking workshop, however, is a little different. While inking is mostly about cartooning and not about caricature, I thought […]

Mike Luckovich among international panel discussing cartoon controversy

Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich was among eight international cartoonists that met on the campus of Emory University for a panel discussion entitled “Art of Controversy: Where to Draw the Line?” The panel included Palestine’s Baha Boukhari, Algeria’s Ali Dilem, New York’s Liza Donnelly, Turkey’s Piyale Madra, Israel’s Michel Kichka and Japan’s No-rio […]

Matt Bors covers former UN Ambassador John Bolton forum

Syndicated editorial cartoonist Matt Bors attended Pacific University’s 25th annual Tom McCall Forum to hear former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton (D-IN) debate on foreign policy. He wrote up a column and cartoon that was published in Campus Progress. So imagine my excitement earlier this month when I heard that Bolton […]

Chicago Tribune announces 2 changes to line up (UPDATED)

The Chicago Tribune has made two changes in their line-up. Starting this last Monday, they’ve added Bill Whitehead’s Free Range and Harry Bliss’ Bliss. To make room, they’ve dropped Dog Eat Doug and The Humble Stumble. Non Sequitur and Mister Boffo, which had previously ran as panels are now running as strips.UPDATED: The Tribune’s reader […]

Patrick McDonnell talks about the origins of Mutts

The Cincinnati Enquirer has published a small interview with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell about the origin of his feature. Q: Was (Mutts) difficult to create? A: The names were the tough part. For a long time, Earl was named Zero. I mentioned it to Charles Schulz, and he told me to name him after my […]

Mike Luckovich’s Thanksgiving cartoon gallery

Over on the Atlantla Journal-Constitution’s web site, they’ve created a gallery of 12 of Mike Luckovich’s favorite editorial cartoons. Visitors are able to vote on each cartoon. The most popular one is a turkey, with axe in hand, ready to cut off the head of an Atlanta Falcon football player – clearly a favorite local […]

The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists: Dave Coverly

Editor’s note: Each week I invite a cartoonist to list 10 or so other cartoonists whose work he/she admires or has influenced their own work. This week’s featured cartoonist is Dave Coverly. Click on the cartoonists’ names to explore more about them and their work.Dave Coverly‘s Speed Bump launched in 1994 and is now in […]

Filling big shoes; Mason Mastroianni takes over on B.C.

Photos courtesy of John Hart StudiosPerhaps no other cartoonist, with so little cartooning experience, has ever taken on such a iconic and highly syndicated feature as Mason Mastroianni has with the famous comic strip B.C.. Under normal circumstances, an aspiring cartoonist and his comic feature would be given a developmental period to work with an […]

AAEC sells Bush Leaguer’s catalog

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has created a catalog of the 98 political cartoons regarding the George W. Bush administration that was on exhibit in Washington D.C. this summer during their 50th Anniversary convention. The exhibit, as well as the book, is entitled “Bush Leaguers, Cartoonists Take On The White House.” The book […]

Scott Adams one of top 50 business thinkers

On the heals of yesterday’s story in the New York Times about Scott Adams taking over one the day-to-day business of one of his restaurants, comes news from the Times of London which lists Scott as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers. Notable names in the top 10 include Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Tom […]

Cagle lists most popular cartoonists

Daryl Cagle has been keeping track of the number of email subscriptions each of the editorial cartoonists that are featured on his site have. The cartoonists in order of their ranking are as follows:1. Daryl Cagle 2. Pat Bagley 3. Eric Allie 4. Monte Wolverton 5. Matt Bors 6. Andy Singer 7. Brian Fairrington 8. […]

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