A few stories across the U.S. on newspapers cutting staff to keep competitive (read: maintain profit margins). San Jose Mercury News Avoids Layoffs As It Cuts 52 Newsroom Jobs The Sun to Offer Buyouts to 75 Employees Methinks this might not be the best time to send in a resume and portfolio at these papers.
Editorialcartoonists.com has posted the deadlines and links to all the major editorial cartooning awards. Best of luck.
Editorial cartoonist, Dave Grunland, is publishing a collection of his cartoons that he’s drawn for the Metro West Daily News for the last 3 decades. For the first time, Granlund’s work has been collected in a full-length book that features 300 black-and-white cartoons and 32 pages of color cartoons. “Dave Granlund, Editorial Cartoonist: Pulling It […]
The Hartford Curant has a Q&A session with Garry Trudeau. He and his wife, Jane Pauley, are the honorary chairmen of the Annual Fall Gala of the Mark Twain House and Museum. Trudeau spoke about his strip – which debuted in 1970, won the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975, appears in about […]
In a E&P story:In a poignant, wordless sequence that began Monday and ends Saturday, McDonnell showed a dog named Katrina trapped on a roof in flooded New Orleans. First she looks over the watery landscape, then she howls, then she slumps on the roof in despair. Rescuers finally arrive, and Friday’s strip shows Katrina in […]
If your a comic collector, you may want to visit the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla California. LA JOLLA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 11, 2005–Jim Davis, the creator of the world’s most famous cat, Garfield, will have an art show of one-of-a-kind signed works at the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla, California, 1162 Prospect Street. A wide […]
Youd think after several years you’d recognize your own drawing style.David Simpson, who was dismissed Thursday, said he found an unsigned copy of the cartoon in his creative files and mistakenly believed it was his own. He said he redrew the cartoon, which then was published in June 7 in the Tulsa World.
A new strip called “Dog eat Doug” will launch November 14. The cartoonist’s web site was down, but promises to be back up before the launch.
Michael Ramirez, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist for the L.A. Times, is the latest victim of “restructuring”.Cartoonist Michael Ramirez, The Times’ cartoonist since 1997, will leave the paper at the end of the year and will not be replaced.
Congratulations to John Deering of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for Editorial Cartooning.I tried to find a news story covering this, but could only find his name among listings of the winners.
Congrats to Jan Elliot. The 10 year mark happens November 20.“I try to create a comic strip that respects non-traditional family situations, that has empathy for imperfect people, that has empathy for people with less than enough money and less than enough time and sometimes less than enough patience,” Eliot says from her home in […]
The pen is mightier than the sword, but a gun trumps a pen any day.ARLINGTON, Texas — A woman who wounded an intruder hiding in one of her closets says she shot his leg because she didn’t want to kill him.Link
Newsday is covering the The ‘New Democrat’ From Hope” conference at Hofstra University. Featured at the conference are editorial cartoonist talking about their cartooning of the Clinton presidency.Making fun of Clinton required little heavy lifting. In fact, says Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and a cartoonist himself, on the spectrum of presidential […]
The Daily Review has a story about the success and impact of Li’l Abner by Al Capp.Last Saturday was Sadie Hawkins Day, created by Capp as a role-switching race in which females become the aggressors in the dating game (something unheard of at the time) and which launched a once-a-year series of girl-asks-boy dances all […]
As reported by E&P:Keith Knight is teaching the next “True Confessions of a Professional Cartoonist” workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco Dec. 3. Knight is the creator of “The ‘K’ Chronicles” and “(th)ink” comics. His self-syndicated work appears in newspapers, magazines, and on the Web.