Bill Day asked six other editorial cartoonists (Rex Babin, Chip Bok, Chris Britt, J.D. Crowe, Matt Davies, Steve Sack) to post their most controversial editorial cartoons and the reaction they received. You can see the cartoons and the reactions on the Commercial Appeal web site.
Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has written an editorial for the Chicago Tribune on his reaction of the Danish Mohammad cartoons. He also addresses the impact of the cartoons on American editorial cartoonists.Things have changed greatly since Mr. Nast’s day. We who work as cartoonists in the United States must always be aware […]
In what could be a very interesting discussion, Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak on the role and responsibilities of being an artist in today’s hyper-sensative world. Signe Wilkinson, political cartoonist at the Philadelphia Daily News, will discuss the role and the responsibilities of artists in today’s political […]
The New Standard has interviewed Mikhaela Reid on her take of the Mohammad cartoon controversy. Do Muslims have a right to be offended? Of course they do. You can’t draw something with the intention of offending and then be totally shocked when someone gets offended. There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests or boycotts, and […]
Mark Fiore’s animated editorial cartoons will be honored at a March 8 awards dinner to receive the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award. The Madison award is given to those who have fought for public access to government meetings and records and promoted the public?s right to know. Mark’s […]
The student newspaper of Victoria University has stepped into the Mohammad cartoon controversy – not by reprinting any of the Danish cartoons – but printing their own cartoon depicting Mohammad and Jesus kissing in a “Tunnel of Tolerance.” The cartoon runs next to the house editorial. The newspaper editor says they’ve broken now university rules […]
Scott Stantis’ feature “Prickly City” had strong Mohammad controversy undertones in yesterday’s strip. The strip featured one of its characters writing to the newspaper demanding that a cartoon be removed from the paper because it was offensive. The cartoon in question is “Marmaduke.”Update: In this posting’s comments Chippy Me Word points out that today’s Prickly […]
The play “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown”, based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters, will be on stage in Foxboro MA. Based on Charles Schulz’s “Charlie Brown” comic strips, this show, which helped make a star of Kristin Chenoweth when it was revised on Broadway in 1999, is bright, fun, and adorable. As […]
Brad Anderson’s Marmaduke will be featuring the story of real life dog Maggie that was sent in by nine-year-old Lydia Joyner. Brad features real life dogs as part of his side feature “Dogs Gone Funny.” Lydia’s story will run this Sunday. “It’s just weird. I just thought he would read it. I didn’t know it […]
Ten more people were killed in rioting over the Danish Mohammad cartoons – this time in Lybia. This report brings the death count to 29.Ten people are reported dead in Libya, where police opened fire yesterday on a stone-throwing mob that set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi. At least four people have been […]
Daily Illini editor Acton Gorton was relieved of his duties after printing one of the Danish Mohammad cartoons in his column. There is a good reporting of the events leading to and the aftermath of the printing on a Chicago Tribune blog. He said in discussions with students he had come to believe that there […]
The Washington Post has a good (and long) article on the anatomy and chronology of the infamous Danish Mohammad cartoons. It was Oct. 13 when Teguh Santosa, a 30-year-old editor with wire-rim glasses, slicked-back black hair and a stubbly beard, decided to make a point in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country. His idea […]
Amitai Sandy, the 29 year old creator of a controversial cartoon contest, was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR. The cartoon contest is a response to the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest.Audio is available on NPR’s site. A new tactic has emerged in the angry debate over cartoons depicting religious figures, as an Israeli artist launches […]
Editorial cartoonist and “?Suburban Cowgirls” artist Edward Colley was taken to the hospital after a serious car crash earlier this week.Newspaper cartoonist Edward Colley was hospitalized in fair condition following an accident at noon yesterday. Colley, 68, of Holmes Street, was injured when his car collided with a pickup truck on County Road at about […]
Andrew McMeel Publishing is pushing to take a larger stake in the British market for cartoons and other comic licensed products.Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP) announced the formation of a division in the United Kingdom. Jack Straw will split his duties as managing director of BrownTrout Europe with the position of managing director for Andrews McMeel […]