News Leader editorial cartoonist Jim McCloskey is leaving his post in Staunton, VA where he has spent 23 years as their editorial cartoonist and ad salesman. He is taking a similar position at the Sun-Herald in Gulfport, MS.
Lars Vilks, whose drawing of the prophet Muhammad as a dog was published in 2007, was attacked by students throwing eggs during a lecture at Karlstad University in central Sweden. He was unharmed and was able to continue his lecture on limits of free speech after the protestors were removed from the audience. This hasn’t […]
The Kickstarter project to fund a reprint project estimated to cost $57,000 has raised over $1.2 MILLION dollars for Order of the Stick creator Rich Burlew. Depending on the level of donation, backers of the project were promised several incentives from fridge magnets to a cameo in the webcomic. In total 14,952 individuals donated the […]
Caulfield has been setting up this scam in Frazz for a few days now, playing on the technicality that Mrs. Olson didn’t specify “US President” when assigning them to write a report.It’s been awhile since Caulfield pulled off a really epic prank like this. I enjoy them because it does create a flashback or two. My […]
Corey Pandolph, who took over on Phil Frank’s The Elderberries five years ago, has announced that he’s retiring the strip. March 4th will be the last comic. Corey has been working on a comic strip (notably Barkeater Lake, Toby, Robot Satan) in various forms for the last 15 years. He tells me that in the […]
The Cartoonists Rights Network International announced they are accepting nominations for their 2012 CRNI Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning. The Courage Award is given every year to a cartoonist who is in grave danger because of the power and impact of his or her work, or, to a cartoonist who has shown extraordinary courage […]
Former The State editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail has been honored by the The South Carolina Arts Commission with the 2012 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts. The award is given to “recognize outstanding achievement and contributions to the arts in South Carolina” and is the highest award bestowed by the state.Robert has a […]
Keith Knight again. We’ve really gotta quit meeting like this.As occasionally alluded to here, there is a group of cartoonists whose work I like so much that I judge them more harshly than others, in part to avoid getting into a rut where the same people are featured here all the time.Sometimes I think it’s […]
Two weeks ago the New York Times announced it was going to begin publishing cartoons each Sunday in their Week in Review section, but their process for selecting (‘everyone send in finished work and we’ll pick the one we like’) and compensating the cartoonists ($250 a week) created a strong negative response from individual cartoonists […]
LA Times Television Critic Robert Lloyd interviewed The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening about the longevity of his TV show which aired its 500th episode last night.“I think we were in the right place at the right time,” (Groening) said of the series’ long life and global reach. “Audiences were ready again for a prime-time animated […]
A departure from format today for something I think is well worth it.”My Friend Dahmer” is not a comic strip, though its creator, Derf Backderf, has been featured here for his strip, “The City,” more than once.It’s also not a graphic novel, despite the fact that, on its cover, it says “a graphic novel by […]
I enjoy Sinfest even when I don’t know what in hell is going on. Or what on earth is going on. Or even what in heaven is going on.The last couple of weeks have seemed a little vague in that regard, but the art always makes it worth dropping in, and I think that’s one […]
Betty and Alex have spent the week at a coffeeshop fussing over this zen garden. You rarely know how much real-time time is being depicted in a story arc, but I’d say finding enlightenment in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee is about par for the course.Any deep moral teachings that […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominations for the 2011 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees are Pickles creator Brian Crane, Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond. Brian’s strip has been in syndication since 1990 and this week Washington Post Writers Group announced that the […]
Michael Cavna reports that six cartoonists will fill in for Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac for a five week stint stating Monday and ending March 19 for dailies and the Sunday features run March 18 through April 15. The guest cartoonists include: Mo Willems, Stephan Pastis, Lincoln Peirce and Michael Jantze, Corey Pandolph and Ken […]