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.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is covering the Produce Marketing Association convention in Atlanta where Scott Adams was a speaker. Most of the story is not about the convention, but about the number of things that are changing for Adams, like: But – no joke – Adams said he’s going through some weirdness this year.
The Christian Science Monitor has a story about the future of print journalism.His refrain is far from unique as newspaper newsrooms cope with a new round of cutbacks. Daily newspapers in New York, Boston, Houston, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and elsewhere are laying off or buying out hundreds of newsroom employees, as well as […]
Comic strip character Asterix takes on a figurative foe. After years of bashing the occupying Roman army, the indomitable Gauls have turned their attentions to the stars in their latest adventure, Asterix And The Falling Sky. But it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to realise that the story is actually a none-too-subtle attack […]
Interesting article on how comics are received by men vs. women. Women and men are often perceived as having differences in their senses of humour but, until now, there had been no neurological evidence for such suspicions. The new brain scanning study showed that although men and women tended to agree on which of the […]
If you think print editorial cartooning is horse and buggy stage of its existance, and Mark Fiore is the future, you’ve got until the end of the year to prove to the Washington Post that you’re all that and a bag of chips.We’re looking for artists, animators and humorists to submit short-form (3 minutes or […]
Twenty three editorial cartoonists from 16 countries met in Jerusalem to discuss the art and the Middle East conflict.Tuesday afternoon’s sessions highlighted the somber side of covering the Middle East. Slide shows of Israeli and Palestinian artists’ work provoked more thoughtful murmurs among attendees rather than laughs.Attending from the U.S. is Jeff Danziger and Pat […]
Andrews McMeel Universal is donating ten signed and framed portraits of Doonesbury characters to the Fisher House Foundation. Fisher House is ?a home away from home? for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA hospitals. An international not-for-profit organization, Fisher House Foundation coordinates private and public support for service members and […]
As reported in Ad Jab, The St. Paul Pioneer Press has dropped Peanuts. This may not seem like a big deal, but Schulz grew up in St. Paul, and the Pioneer Press bought Schulz’s first comic. It was also one of the first papers to run the very first Peanuts strip back in 1950. The […]