Last nights presidential primaries had Houston Chronicle’s Nick Anderson and Cincinnati Enquirer’s Jim Borgman up late last night. Both were live blogging sketches and cartoons as the primary results rolled in. Borgman posted his cartoon sketches/ideas. Nick spent the evening at a local television station. He posted caricatures and sketches. He was also on TV […]
With the return of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I’m happy to feature Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. “Pearls” became one of my all time favorites with its dark and irreverent humor. Apparently I’m not alone, the feature runs in roughly 500 papers.Pearls Before Swine was the fifth syndication attempt for Stephan and according to his […]
» There are a couple of book collections coming out next month according to E&P. Collections include: Dilbert, Get Fuzzy and the first collection ever for Watch Your Head. » San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Breen reviews the new Bill Mauldin biography.» A lengthy article is published on the life of Gordo creator Gus […]
The Hartford Courant has announced that their long time search for a replacement for the daily FoxTrot (which retired at the end of 2006) is over and Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle is now a permanent feature in their comic line up. Hundreds of people have commented on the different strips we have been trying out, […]
Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano and On a Claire Day creators Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett will be one of six comic professionals that will be judging this year’s Lakeland Community College’s annual Comics Contest. The annual comics symposium is usually held in the spring, but this year it is a more of a series […]
Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson was on CNN last Friday (you can see video over on CNN). He was also on NPR last week.He’ll also be live-blogging the primary results tomorrow night.
» The Northwest Florida Daily News is running a poll. Candidates being considered include: Baby Blues, Between Friends, Bizarro, Cul de Sac, Daddy’s Home, Dog Eat Doug, Get Fuzzy, Mutts, Ollie and Quentin, The Pajama Diaries, Pearls Before Swine, Pickles and Pooch Cafe.» Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, will be the keynote […]
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, was recently in San Francisco to perform stand up at the Purple Onion. SFGate.com cobbled together this video of an interview with pieces of his stand up. Enjoy.
Tribune Media Syndicate has announced that Rod Whigham will replace Frank McLaughlin as the artist for the classic comic strip Gil Thorp. The new work will appear on April 7th. Rod’s career has been in comic book and commercial illustration for the last 25 years working on comic book titles such as G.I. Joe, Star […]
» Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and the award winning Fun Home, will be speaking to Dickinson College this coming Tuesday about her work and comics in general.» Yesterday’s Blondie had an easter egg in it. In one of the panes, Frank Cummings – one of the Blondie artists, inserted the […]
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the now iconic Danish Muhammad cartoon would like to be rid of the cartoon, preferably through an auction, but no auction house will touch it. The proposal to sell the drawing also creates another issue – how much is it worth? “I would like to think that it has some […]
Just got word from United Media that Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is appearing for a second time on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.” Air date is Monday (March 3rd) at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.I’ll post video if it hits YouTube.
US News & World Report has an interesting report on the history of the impact of editorial cartoonists on presidential politics. The article goes back to Ben Franklin up through Thomast Nast, Homer Davenport and then into the Herblock, Pat Oliphant era. The birth of television in the 1950s and the spread of color photographs […]
LA Daily News editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor is one of 22 employees who will find out today if he will still be among the employed. In an email, Patrick tells me, “I think I’ll be live blogging my firing.”I’ll post a link to the blog when he sends it to me. I’m not sure if […]
The editorial cartooning community has been going through a season of discontent for many years and it seems that the pitch is only getting louder. If it’s not discussion of the gloom and doom of the newspaper industry, it’s the complaints about the book collections, who’s copying who and who’s pulling down the profession with […]