Canadian Editorial Cartoonist Peter Whalley, whose career started before World War II when he was 16 has passed away at the age of 86. The Gazette has an excellent article about his life and accomplishments. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Smith whom he married in 1948 and his three daughters.

Brad McMillan, whose editorial cartoons appeared in the Memphis Business Journal since 1983, has passed away at age 61. Brad originally taught english in Jackson Tennessee, but switched careers and moved to Memphis to pursue a career in art. He was a successful artist in Memphis in the 70’s and 80’s, eventually settling in Texas, […]

Freelance-Star editorial cartoonst Clay Jones interviewed fellow cartoonists Scott Stantis, Joel Pett and Matt Davies to talk shop about various aspects of cartooning. Topics covered include: state of today’s cartoons, disagreeing with the paper’s positions, how does winning the Pulitzer affect your work, impact of blogs, and receiving hate mail.On that last topic, here is […]

I received an email from Dave Dotson regarding a couple of significant milestones for his self-syndicated feature Outzkirts. He reports that not only his his feature in 50 papers nation-wide but that he’s also picked up the Jacksonville Daily Progress, his first daily. He also mentions that the Kerrville Daily Times in Texas is planning […]

Yesterday, a large memorial was held in honor of Phil Frank, who drew Farley for the San Francisco Chronicle for 22 years. The crowd neared 2000 people and a good number of them were dressed up in their favorite costumes based on characters in the strip. Attending the service included members of his family, Phil […]

A hearty congratulations are in order for Pat Byrnes, who does cartoons for the New Yorker and other newspapers, magazines. He and his wife are expecting their second child in March. His wife is Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Only a couple of line-up changes that I’m aware of. Candorville creator Darrin Bell reports on his blog that Lalo Alcaraz’ La Cucaracha has been dropped in favor of Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle. John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee reports on his blog that his feature was recently dropped by Rocky […]

Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be presented a 2007 Media Award by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association bringing attention to “Aphasia” a disorder often brought out as a result of a stroke or brain injury. In her comic feature, the grandfather character struggles to regain his speech after a stroke. The […]

Chicago Tribune Public Editor Timothy McNulty has written a response to many a questioning readers as to why a September 14th Get Fuzzy strip was yanked and what criteria does the paper use to determine whether a comic feature should be removed. Readers asked why the Sept. 14th Get Fuzzy, which used the words like […]

Beginning today, Matt Bors’ editorial cartoons are syndicated through United Feature Syndicate. Matt will produce three cartoons a week in color and black and white. “Matt Bors is one of the most original and talented young cartoonists around,” said Ted Rall, Acquisition and Development Editor for United Media. “He infuses the traditional format of editorial […]

Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger, has accepted an invitation to be a “Pretty Cow Contest” judge at this year’s Mississippi State Fair. Marshall has been a judge before.

Four cartoonists, whose works appear in the Cavalier Daily, have quit in protest over the firing of Grant Woolard who’s cartoon depicting nine naked black men fighting with chairs, sticks and boots with the caption of “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The departing cartoonists include Ellisha Marongelli, Joe Shaver, Chen Song and Laura Lin. Their departure leaves […]

In continuation of an earlier story I reported on a couple of weeks ago regarding a controversial cartoon depicting a hispanic girl imprisoned in a closet forced to drink urine. Over a 100 students gathered outside the paper’s offices last Tuesday to protest the comic and demand that the editor be fired. Because the paper […]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]

Rob Rogers, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has passed the mantle of President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists to Nick Anderson, of the Houston Chronicle. He has penned an outgoing message to the AAEC members which recounts some of the highlights and challenges the organization has faced this last year and in […]