Chicago Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins took top honors for editorial cartooning in the Herman Kogan Media Awards for a series of cartoons he did on the topic of political corruption. The prize is a $1000 scholarship in his name to a school of his choice.
Brooke McEldowney, creator of 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn, was interviewed by WUKY (NPR station at the Univ. of Kentucky). Here’s the link to the MP3.
The American Political Science Association has posted downloadable transcripts and articles from a symposium on the current state of editorial cartooning. It’s a treasure trove. Go download and enjoy!Hat tip: Tom Spurgeon
Daryl Cagle recites the history of Cartoonists Day over on his blog.An excerpt: Cartoonists usually work in isolation and the opportunities to work together were great fun at first – then the glow started to fade. Some cartoonists were enthusiastic about the idea of Cartoonists Day, and pushed the idea of every comic strip artist […]
Today’s Dilbert features a Scott Adamesque character who’s started a comic strip on off hours. As funny as an inside joke can be.Hat tip to E&P
A new Blondie book is due out this August called, Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History and will focus on the comic’s history, characters and creators. The feature is 77 years old.
Jonathan Lemon writes in to tell Daily Cartoonists about an interview with KAL, Tom Meyer, Mark Fiore on the topic of The Art of Political Cartooning conducted by the Commonwealth Club. You can listen to it online.
Universal Press Syndicate has partnered with Lulu.com to launch a storefront in efforts to create a new way to produce and distribute their books. Lulu.com is a print on demand solution and this deal appears to give cartoonists and fans an opportunity to create their own books and calendars. Initially, the features that will be […]
John Hambrock has launched a new web site for his feature The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. It’s a quality web site that features a gallery of some of John’s favorite strips, a news blog as well as discussion forum (both are sparse or unlaunched at the moment). The site’s brand new – you can […]
I rarely visit my blog. Sounds weird, but I usually post all my stuff through the admin interface or another blogging application and I review all comments through my email account, so really, it’s rare that I stop by my own blog. I noticed today that with the current setting of displaying the last 7 […]
Tom Heintjes, Publisher of Hogan’s Alley, writes in to remind Daily Cartoonists that they can get a free copy of Hogan’s Alley on Free Comic Book Day (that’s May 5 A.K.A. “this Saturday”). Simply email him on that day – and that day only – at this email address hoganmag@gmail.com along with a mailing address.Don’t […]
Scott Adams will have a new Dilbert collection out next month called Positive Attitude. The collection reprints cartoons that ran between June 2006 and March 2007 and will be in color.
Mark Heath will have a new Spot the Frog collection on store shelves next month. The book is entitled, It’s Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee.
Bob Weber, Jr. has launched a blog for his Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids feature.From E&P: “I get around a thousand art submissions from children each week, and I’ve always felt sad about only being able to publish two a week,” the King Features Syndicate cartoonist told E&P. “Many of the kids put terrific […]
From E&P we learn that Baldo co-creator Hector Cantu is now the editorial director of the Heritage Auction Galleries – an auction house that deals with cartoon art.