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:
Phil Hands writes in to alert us to the news that The Capital Times in Wisconsin has announced that they will be ending their daily version of their newspaper and replacing it with their web site. The paper will continue to print a twice weekly tabloid and expand it’s circulation to about 80,000 (currently under […]
Jimmy Margulies writes in to tell us that he and editorial cartoonists Matt Davies, M.E. Cohen and Adam Zyglis have been invited to speak at Columbia University by the Columbia Political Union. The union is a non-partisan organization to promote involvement in the political process and previous speakers have included Governor Howard Dean, Senator Orrin […]
Last September I reported that Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had a $100,000 reward on his head after one of his cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad’s head on the body of a dog was published. It’s now being reported that the Sweden’s Economic Crimes Bureau conducted a raid of a home back in November and found […]
The Los Angeles Daily News has picked up Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac. The change was related to the paper’s transition to a smaller width paper.According to E&P, The Long Beach Press-Telegram has added five new features to its line up. The features include: Richard Thompson Cul De Sac, Jim Davis’ Garfield, Chris Brown’s Hagar […]
Corey Pandolph writes in to tell us that he’s launched a new comic strip entitled TOBY, Robot Satan on gocomics.com. The new feature, about a insane robot and his bartender friend Morris Gumboot, will run five days a week. Corey also mentions the possibility of it running in print in New York or Boston.Corey is […]
The Christian Science Monitor is placing a heavy emphasis on hiring an editorial cartoonist with animation experience, according to Dave Astor of E&P. The paper says that animations “keep the attention of younger people, who are more oriented” and that the cartoonist can either create the animation solo or work with more computer savvy people […]
Several readers sent me links to the news that Danish police arrested three Muslims who had “concrete murder plans” to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists who drew the Prophet Mohammad back in the fall of 2005. According to MSNBC, the three suspects (two from Tunisia, and one from Moracco) will most likely […]
John Cole sent me a link an online reprint of King Feature’s 1949 catalogue of features. The catalogue contains the 53 cartoonist who were being syndicated right after WWII. Very interesting to see the dominate cartooning styles of that era.A 1952 original ‘Peanuts’ Comic recently was auctioned for $31,640Over in Kentucky, a lawmaker has introduced […]
Pam Platt, public editor of The Courier-Journal, has written an interesting column regarding how editorial cartoonists are dealing with race and gender with the Democratic presidential campaign. She email-interviewed eight cartoonists for their response. David Brown, The Los Angeles Sentinel: “My approach to drawing Clinton and Obama is no different than any other personality. How […]