From the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists comes news of the finalists for the 2011 National Newspaper Awards Finalists. This year’s finalists include: Marc Beaudet, Brian Gable and Bruce Mackinnon. Visit their website for sample cartoons .

Great profile of Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat by Reuters:That was until a few months before the uprising against Assad began last year, at which point Farzat felt the president had gone too far in stifling freedom of expression and crushing dissent. That’s when it got personal. “I made that shift from using symbols to portraying […]

Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey has been awarded the Governor’s Initiative for Volunteer Excellence (GIVE) for Outstanding Service by a Media Personality. The award recognizes Mississippi residents who “raise the bar in humanitarianism and servant leadership.” The report in the Clarion-Ledger doesn’t specify what volunteering Marshall has engaged in, but anyone who follows this blog […]

John Auchter, who draws editorial cartoons for the Grand Rapids Press (MI), has picked up a chain of papers to his client roster. Last month MLive Media Group consolidated print operations and hired John to do weekly cartoons to appear in The Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, and […]

Lordy, Lordy, next week Funky Winkerbean turns 40! A few events are planned to mark the milestone. Up first is the release of volume one of a complete collection. This first collection features cartoons from 1972-1974. Additional volumes to follow about ever three years. Bob Harvey penned the forward and you can order your book […]

Tom Racine’s guest this week was Darrin Bell who does Candorville and Rudy Park (with Theron Heir). Darrin Bell, of the most excellent “Candorville” and “Rudy Park” joins me to talk about political cartooning, his early days of newspaper work, how he snuck into offices to get his cartoons seen, how 9/11 affected his comics […]

Gil offers his mother some important consumer advice. Charmingly naive coming from a kid, really annoying coming from your local TV station’s news team.Not that the reporter usually assigned to this one is a whole lot older or more worldly than your eight-year-old.We’ve got a new Hannaford grocery store in town and it’s best, most […]

Kliban is back! Universal Uclick has announced they’re running Bernard “Hap” Kliban classic cartoons on GoComics. Starting this week they’ll run Kliban cartoons on Monday, Wednesday, Friday with a second feature called Kliban’s Cats to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Kliban is famous for his Playboy cartoons and his Cat cartoons. He died in 1990 at […]

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon profiles Tom The Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling (real name Ken Fisher) for his Sunday Interview.TOM SPURGEON: We tend to link cartoonists to their primary venue — “comic book artist” or “strip cartoonist” — but it strikes me that you don’t have a lot of company doing exactly what you do, […]

Frank Cho has posted news that two new Liberty Meadows collections are coming out this year. In June look for the first of three of “Liberty Meadows Sunday Collection.” Book two fill follow later in the fall.

The Hair Balls blog with the Houston Press has posted a round up of “What if other comic strips took on the sonogram bill?”A few papers pulled the comic for the week, opting to run older strips in its place. We applaud those who stood firm, and we applaud Trudeau — never one to shy […]

When Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley found out his paper was going to pull last Thursday’s Doonesbury, he found a creative way to keep it in the paper – he used it in his editorial cartoon. Each week Pat posts a online-column called “Behind the Lines” wherein he and BYU economist Val Lambson […]

Perhaps everyone was anticipating Spring, but today spawned three pretty good dog park cartoons. Or, rather, two pretty good dog park cartoons and this Overboard, which is more of a “We need a dog park” cartoon:Our dog park was wiped out in August by the same hurricane and flood that, but for some late night […]

There isn’t a lot of wit in this Tony Auth cartoon, but there isn’t a lot of need for wit on this topic.To start with, most political cartoons use exaggeration to create that humorous irony and there’s nothing left to exaggerate. The situation is already pushed so far to the extreme that you can’t take […]

I hate the oft-repeated nonsense that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but then I’m not so crazy about being Irish on St. Patrick’s Day myself, and I am proud to be Irish the rest of the year, as long as the plastic derbies and fuzzy shamrocks remain well out of sight.However, there is […]