Doonesbury is storming to YouTube – or at least some seven year old video archives of Uncle Duke’s run for the presidency. Universal’s uclick is uploading 6 new archive videos to YouTube and doonesbury.com twice a month. There are 30 short animation films in all. From the press release: In the March 4, 2007 “Doonesbury” […]
From the AAEC web site comes sad news that the Greenville News (Greenville SC) has eliminated Roger Harvell’s job as a staff editorial cartoonist and has said that there is no funding for the position in the future. The Greenville News has a circulation of 112,000.
Mike Rhode, over at the ComicsDC blog noticed an article in the Washington Post about a cartoon by William Woodward Jr. that recently re-ran (the cartoon was originally published in 2002 and has been printed once before) in the St. Mary Today depicting what many are calling racist because it allegedly depicts three black men […]
The Independent Mail in Anderson SC has added an editorial cartoonist to their opinion page. Al Stine is a local painter who also does cartoons for Playboy. Al Stine is well-known for his exquisite paintings. As the result of a recent newspaper story, you may also be aware of his background as a cartoonist for […]
Here is an interesting story out of the News-Sentinel (Fort Worth, TX) about a woman named Helen Newton who amassed one of the largest private collections of editorial cartoons over the span of 44 years (1939-1983) as a politically active letter writer. The collection includes several Pulitzer Prize winning artists. Here are a few that […]
The Washington Post has announced that they are making several comic page changes. Starting on Monday, they are adding three new comics: Agnes (Tony Cochran) Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (Tim Rickard) and Brevity (Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry). Brevity with alternate with Close to Home (John McPherson). Dave Coverly’s Speed Bump will now run seven […]
Head over to Daryl Cagle’s blog to listen to audio of Monte Wolverton talking about his work. Also posted is another audio clip of Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen about his cartoons.
Universal Press has announced that Bob Harrell will end his comic Big Top on March 25th. In statement by Bob, he says:This was an incredibly difficult decision. The strip, and the characters feel like family to me and I loved every day of doing Big Top. But for both professional and financial reasons, itâ??s time […]
Out on book shelves today is a book I’ve wrote about a couple of weeks ago called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. The author, Dave Wallis, has an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that nicely recaps the major themes of his book. It’s an excellent read and worth a […]
Found an interesting article on a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist named Jay “Ding” Darling who drew cartoons for the Sioux City Journal and Des Moines Register at the beginning of the last century. An active conservationist of his time, he was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1934 to head up U.S. Biological Survey […]
Erin Russell, a senior at the University of Michigan, has won the Charles M. Schulz Award for college cartooning. Her comic strip Jaded Joy runs in The Michigan Daily and is described as a comic that “chronicles the drama of a spirited 7 year-old girl named Joy, who is intelligent, independent, keenly observant, and a […]
Mike Luckovich, the two time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has won the National Headliners Award for the second straight year according to E&P. Second and third place went to Matt Davies (The Journal-News) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News). The National Headliners Award is the first big prize for editorial cartooning to be announced […]
Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has been awarded the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. Steve takes home a hefty $10,000 and a trophy. His portfolio included cartoons regarding “the Iraq War, the tragedy of Darfur, lobbyist influence at the White House, bigotry and the failure of response to Katrina.”UPDATE: I […]
E&P has leaked what they are reporting as some of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. For editorial cartooning the names include: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Nick Anderson with the Houston Chronicle, and Mike Thompson at the Detroit Free Press.A blog named “Blogging New Orleans” reports that Walt had asked the Pulitzer board if animated […]
Mark Tatulli gets an extensive write-up in the Philadelphia Inquirer this week in part as the Inquirer will be running Lio beginning on Monday. Some of the more interesting tidbits gleaned from the article: Mark has had to reel back the dark side of Lio because of complaints that it was too dark Mark is […]