John Reads long attempt to start his Stay Tooned! quarterly magazine has hit its first milestone – launching. The premiere issue features Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), John Rose (Snuffy Smith), Greg Cravens (The Buckets), Scott Stantis (Prickly City), Steve Kelley (The Times-Picayune), Marshall Ramsey (The Clarion-Ledger), Steven Butler (Sonic X), John Deaton (The Toon […]
The Caller-Times, Corpus Christi TX, reports that they have added 11 new comic features to their daily comics page and five new Sunday comics. The paper reports that after dropping Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse two months ago, readers insisted the paper reinstate the feature. As a result the editor decided to bring […]
I failed to mention in the National Headliners Award announcement last week that Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Washington D.C.’s Politico, that he took third place for Illustrative Graphics for newspapers and magazines. I don’t know if his illustrations are posted online, but you can see his editorial cartoons.Hat tip to Mike Rhode.
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist fro the Dayton Daily News has won this year’s National Headliners Award for editorial cartooning. Coming in second and third place are Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Michael Ramirez of the Investorâ??s Business Daily.Peters took 2nd place for the award in 2002.
E&P is reporting that the usual leaking of the Pulitzer finalists list is not so leaky this year. For years, Pulitzer Prize Administrator Sig Gissler has firmly directed the juries that choose finalists for the 14 journalism categories not to disclose them before the Pulitzer Board reveals winners in April. Nevertheless, for many years, E&P […]
William Warren, the 2006 Locher Award winner, has been awarded with the Charles M. Schulz award given to the best college cartoonist. William is a student at Wake Forest University, and won the award for his comic strip Lummox. The Schulz award is given annually by the Scripps Howard Foundation.Finalist for the award include Isaac […]
Steve Kelley of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans has been awarded The Scripps Howard Foundation’s annual National Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. Finalist for the award go to Mike Lester of the Rome (GA) News-Tribune, and Michael Ramirez, Investor’s Business Daily.
Just got a tip that this year’s NCS Reuben Award Nominees for Cartoonist of the Year are: Dan Piraro, Dave Coverly, and Al Jaffee.Dan is the creator of Bizaro and is syndicated through King Features. Dave is the creator of Speed Bump, syndicated through Creators, and Al is a longtime contribute to MAD magazine.More information […]
» Editorial cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom as started a web comic. » Luann – the musical – hits the stage again at Palomar College. Luann creator Greg Evans wrote the play as well as the music. It was first produced at the college in the fall of 2006.» Two more editorial cartoons by Bill Watterson have […]
Thad Ogburn, the features editor for Raleigh News & Observer, has been promoted to Metro editor. Last fall, Thad gained notoriety in the comics industry for expanding the comics section after an extensive comic poll. The decision prompted others, including myself to hope he’d run for president. In his new position, Thad will oversee the […]
» Cow and Boy will get it’s first book collection. Look for it on shelves next month.» Brevity creators Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry will have their third book collection next month. It’s called Brevity Remix.» Rose is Rose fans will want to pick up the latest collection called 100% Whole Grin Rose is Rose.» […]
© Michael Ramirez. Used by permission Investor Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition sponsored by The Columbia College Chicago Department of Journalism. Honorable mentions went to Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Steve Greenberg of the Ventura County Star. The first place cartoon by Pulitzer […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has announced that he will be taking a 12-week vacation from his strip but will resume before the Democratic and Republican conventions and general election. This break begins Sunday, March 23, 2008 through June 16, 2008. In the meantime, Garry has selected 12 weeks of reruns which are offered to subscribing […]
Ventura County Star editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg is self publishing an environmental themed collection of cartoons from his three decade career as a cartoonist. There are 115 cartoons organized by topic (Global Warming, The Air We Breathe, Drillin’ and Spillin’, Earth’s Resources and Politics (from Watt to Dubya)). Denis Hayes, the man who created the […]
Corey Pandolph writes in with exciting news. His new feature, Toby, Robot Satan, which debuted on GoComics just two weeks ago, will now run in New York City and Boston Metro papers starting March 10th. The print run will start at the beginning of the story.Corey is the current cartoonist for The Elderberries comic strip.