Clay Bennett recently moved to Tennessee to replace Bruce Plante as the Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist. A local business magazine conducted an interview with Clay on his motivations changing jobs and the editorial cartooning profession. BTN:What is the value of editorial cartoonists to our media, or better yet, our First Amendment rights in […]

The Christian Science Monitor is planning to fill the editorial cartoonist position vacated by Clay Bennett who left for the Chattanooga Times Free Press earlier this month. The Monitor’s chief editorial writer and editor Clayton Jones told E&P’s Dave Astor that they’ve narrowed their search to about a dozen candidates. Jones says he doesn’t know […]

There are two collegiate cartoon scholarships application deadlines coming up. Mike Rhodes’ blog has details on the Swann Fellowship in Caricature and Cartoon. It’s an annual award of up to $15,000 and has a deadline of February 15th.The other award is the The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship for any college student in the U.S., Canada […]

I’m not sure how I missed this one. Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot was featured on Oregon Art Beat and that interview has been posted on the web. The video segment runs about 8 minutes and features Jan talking about her background, her path to syndication, and her workflow.Thanks to Richard Krauss for the notice.

Florida Today editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker has his own exhibit featuring 74 of his editorial cartoons. The exhibit, entitled “Hitting Below the Sunbelt,” runs through February 3rd in Melbourne Florida. Jeff will be at the exhibit today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.His paper has a write up on Jeff’s career and mentions that he […]

Creators Syndicate is set to launch a new feature by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein entitled Daddy’s Home. The feature focuses on a stay at home dad raising a son and a daughter.Gary’s editorial cartoons are syndicated through Copley News Service and he currently is a designer and illustrator for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He […]

Detroit Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson is covering the Michigan Primary by attending the candidate’s rallies. He’s posted a few animated cartoons based on his observations. I particularly enjoyed the McCain rally report.

Last week Free Lance-Star editorial cartoonist Clay Jones made a bet with Seattle Times editorial cartoonist Eric Devericks over the outcome of a Seahawks, Redskin’s game. Clay lost. He had to write a song praising the Seahawks.Song is posted.

A few things of interest when looking at the comic page changes reported this week. Firstly, The Colorado Springs Gazette has announced the results of their latest comic poll. After 6000 votes cast, For Better or For Worse, B.C., and Peanuts will stay. Wizard of Id and Frank & Earnest were dropped and in their […]

According to Vertura County Star, Lynn Johnston will be ending the hybrid experiment and re-run her feature, For Better or For Worse, when the current story-lines are complete. Universal Press will continue to sell the repeats. Johnston hasn’t set a specific end date but did start a slow phaseout of the comic in September with […]

Readers of this blog know that I’ve been somewhat reluctant to embrace animated editorial cartooning as the next generation of the profession, but I can’t help but think we’re heading for a tipping point (“the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable”). Over two years ago The Washington Post ran a contest to […]

Carroll Robert (Bob) Zahn Jr. has passed away at the age of 73. According to E&P, Bob did the Bigg’s Business syndicated comic panel from the years 1972 to 1979 but is mostly known for his magazine cartoons, greeting cards and cartoon books.Tom Spurgeon has the best write-up.

The National Archives will be hosting a special panel discussing a new exhibit featuring Clifford Berryman (1869-1949), a staff cartoonist at the Washington Post and Washington Evening Star. Invited discussion participants include Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonists Clay Bennett, Matt Davies, Pat Oliphant, and Ann Telnaes. The panel discussion is scheduled for February 7th and […]

From Paul Gilligan’s blog comes news that his feature, Pooch Cafe has been optioned by Sony Animation to be made into a CG feature film. He notes that Sony’s two previous forays into computer-animated movies include Open Season (which Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers was an executive producer and co-creator) and last year’s […]

I second that. The key lesson here is that the editors in Raleigh got past believing that comics take away space from the “great issues of the day.” A well-balanced comics page deals with the “great issues” better than any other page of the paper. That’s right, even better than the front page, which is […]