Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba has reached the 25 year milestone with The World-Herald – his local paper where he grew up. Michael Kelly, the paper’s columnist wrote a profile on him:Michael: On the day I checked in, the 53-year-old Koterba?s bicycle was parked outside his seventh-floor cubicle at the downtown Omaha World-Herald Building. A few […]
Last week, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts turned 64. TIME magazine ran two stories about Peanuts: See How Peanuts Addressed Feminism, Nuclear War and More and Why Peanuts Endures: ?The Football is Always Pulled Away?From TIME Magazine: Despite their wholesome, all-American reputation, Charlie Brown and his friends embody an amount of malaise better associated with French existentialists. […]
Last week’s cartoon by Jerry Holbert placed the cartoonist in an awkward position of either admitting he created a cartoon with an historically racist reference OR plead ignorance of the connection between watermelon and African-Americans such as President Obama. Jerry went with ignorance. But that wasn’t credible to a lot of people. Here’s the cartoon […]
From the Times of India Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post: “The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries.” … Rosenthal said Heng “was in no way trying to impugn India, […]
Both Jerry Holbert and his newspaper are officially apologizing for the cartoon that ran on Wednesday featuring a man (presumably someone who had breached the White House) asking the president if he had tried watermelon flavored toothpaste. The cartoon has gone viral. Jerry took to the Boston Herald’s radio podcast to explain how he ended […]
Mother Goose and Grimm has turned 30. The strip created by Mike Peters officially turned 30 years old yesterday (or 210 in dog years) and to commemorate the milestone, Mike has created a special two week series on how it all began that will start in newspapers on Monday, Oct. 6.Here’s a teaser: Mother Goose […]
A cartoon by Jerry Holbert that ran yesterday in the Boston Herald has people speechless and wondering how it even made it into the paper. Here’s the cartoon as it ran in the Herald (online and print):A less offensive version has been posted on GoComics (and I assume the one sent out to his syndicate […]
Interesting article from The New York times on the changing cover of The New Yorker. At The New Yorker?s Midtown offices, a wall of covers arranged in chronological order shows a distinct change in tone. Today, the magazine?s covers, which have been drawn or painted by artists each week since its founding in 1925, frequently […]
Andertoons Mark Anderson attended last weekend’s Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and has posted his photos and thoughts.It was an amazing weekend put together by John & Anne Morse Hambrock. I can?t imagine all the time and work (and cake baking) that went into this. And apparently there?s a lot of pent up demand for something […]
Tonight, in Madison WI, editorial cartoonist Phil Hands will “mashup” with Rubes creator Leigh Rubin. The event is described as an “evening of absurdity” as this “odd couple will riff off each others cartoons, and show how the twisted minds of two very different cartoonists work.”If you’re in Madison, Madison Central Library at 7:00 pm. […]
This is cool music video for Brunettes Shoot Blondes for their song Knock Knock. Essentially an animation that plays in sync across several devices. Brunettes Shoot Blondes – Knock Knock (Official Video) from Brunettes Shoot Blondes on Vimeo.From a technical standpoint, the animation is fairly simple. Syncing it all together seems like the harder part.
If you read Mike Peters’s touching tribute to the late Tony Auth, you know they had a deep friendship. Late last week, Mike posted a two part interview he did with Tony for the program “The World of Cartooning.”Part 1 Part 2
Producers of The Simpsons hinted last fall that they would be killing off a character. Last night on the season premiere they made good on that promise. Krusty’s father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski died while “Krusty was seeking validation from his father.”From The Daily Mail:Krusty, whose real name is Herschel Krustofski, later sought out his father […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is putting word out that they’re extending out the registration deadline for their Satire Fest convention in two weeks. By registering now instead of at the door, attendees are assured free drink tickets, food and goodie bags.Also announced is the inclusion of The Simpsons director David Silverman who will […]
From Deadline Hollywood comes news that just days before the US Supreme Court was to take into consideration the legal case between Jack Kirby heirs and Marvel, the two parties have struck “amicably resolved their legal disputes.”Dominic Patten writing for Deadline: All things considered, and with the billions that Marvel/Disney have made off the films […]