Let’s start today’s roundup with Jimmy Margulies on the new, revised, please-keep-requiring-them SATs, the makers of which have now decided to drop the college-bound-level vocabulary portion and reset the top score back to 1600, having previously stopped asking kids to show their reasoning powers through analogies.You remember the analogies, right? SATS:high score::Youth Soccer:A. professional careerB. World […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]
The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the winners of this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. In the category of editorial cartooning, Jen Sorensen took the win in the category of newspaper circulation over 100,000. Angelo Lopez of the Philippines Today took the prize for newspapers under 100,000.Congratulations to Jen and […]
I’m happy to report that rampant screwballism appears to be loosening its grip. Tim Eagan is not a screwball, and his take on the whole “sagebrush revolution” kerfuffle seems not only funny but sensible. Meanwhile, however, a couple of knee-jerk conservative cartoonists have tried to make something sinister out of the confrontation and they’re not getting […]
Tom the Dancing Bug does a potential “Get off my lawn” cartoon, but it appeals to me for a number of reasons, only one of which is that I wish those damn kids would get off my lawn.I don’t really get Twitter, which seems less like pausing in the grocery store to chat for a […]
Here is a small piece of a longer work by Natalie Nourigat that is at once the saddest and also the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a very long time. You need to go read the whole thing.(I’ll wait.)I feel very bad about the way we’ve slowly immersed ourselves in a police-state mentality, but […]
Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observe has been named the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning “for his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style.”This year’s finalists include David Horsey of the Los Angeles Times and Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake Tribune. Judges noted David’s “skillful […]
50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]
I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]
In the past day-and-a-half, I’ve seen enough dancing on the grave to appreciate Bob Englehart’s more insightful commentary on the resignation of Kathleen Sibelius.In his commentary on the cartoon, Englehart calls her “something of a scapegoat,” which is putting it mildly, and spreads the blame both among the Republican witchhunters and an administration that didn’t […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced the date for this year’s convention/festival in San Francisco, CA. AAEC President (and convention host) Mark Fiore is branding the convention as Satire Fest (same acronym as San Francisco) to build public interest and promotion. Most of the events will be open to the public. Expect sessions […]
Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that for the first time ever, online advertising has surpassed broadcast advertising. Also of import: for a third year in a row, mobile advertising revenue growth is measured with triple digits. ?Our survey confirms that we are fully in transition to the post-desktop era,? said David Silverman, Partner, PwC U.S. ?Triple […]
Big news from the Verge:Amazon has just announced that it’s acquiring Comixology, the highly successful digital comics platform. “We’ve long admired the passion Comixology brings to changing the way we buy and read comics and graphic novels,” said Amazon VP of content acquisition and digital publishing David Naggar. “We look forward to investing in the […]
Yesterday, Alison Bechdel was in town to deliver the Center for Cartoon Studies’ Will Eisner Spring Lecture at Dartmouth to an audience of CCS students, Dartmouth students, fans from the community and Ed Koren, who, after all, is Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, where both the CCS and Alison Bechdel are headquartered. It was a very different […]
This year’s nominees for the Glyph Award have been announced. The award is given out during the 13th annual East Coast Black Age of Comics convention on May 16. The category of comic strip now includes webcomics. Not sure when that happened, but the pool of eligible cartoonists has grown, which is a good thing […]