» 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 […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist Dave Horsey leveled his ink and blog at the new Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell calling him “the most vulgar embodiment of a pervasive bean counter mentality that is threatening the best of American journalism.” From his column on his blog Dave warned that under a Zell leadership the Tribune Co. […]
Stan Lynde’s Rick O’Shay ran in a hundred papers from 1958 to 1977. The Montana native’s artwork is now on display in the Montana Secretary of State’s office in the Capitol building. The Secretary of State began exhibiting artists work at the capitol as a nice touch for tourists and artists.
» Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson was interviewed by The Naperville Sun about making a career as an artist.» The Ten-Cent Plague is a new book out describing the early days of comic books and their influence on kids. So alarmed were adults at the graphic visuals of comics that many cities and states passed laws […]
Joe Strupp of Editor and Publisher has written his predictions on whose name might be announced in this year’s Pulitzer Prize announcement. In the category of editorial cartooning he names three candidates that he believes have a good shot: Mike Thompson, John Sherffius, and Ann Telnaes.Below are his arguments on why his picks could win: […]
A while back I told you about a new book about Jackie Ormes, one of the first African-American female editorial cartoonists from the 1930s to the 1950s. The biography’s author, Nancy Goldstein, was interviewed by the Ann Arbor News about Jackie’s career and history in doll making, cartooning, fashion design. Q. Jackie Ormes had an […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is asking for help to find a new job for the Illinois man who was fired last fall for hanging up a Dilbert cartoon that compared management to drunken lemurs. The story received nationwide attention and Scott used it as fodder for a story-line still running as of today.