Editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor has announced he’s leaving the LA Weekly. He’s been on their staff since January 2009 after he was laid off from the L.A. Daily News. According to his blog post, his next adventure is crating online animated shorts.
Former Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial cartoonist and Pluggers and Shoe cartoonist Gary Brookins spent a week as an extra in a Steven Spielberg movie entitled “Lincoln” that is set to hit theaters in 2012. Gary reports on his blog that he is in scenes with Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader and Sally Field during filming in […]
Keith Knight has been chronicling his life in “the K Chronicles” for getting onto a couple of decades now, and it is consistently fresh because he rarely reaches into the Bag of Accepted Memes for his observational gags. He just tells you what he’s been thinking and doing lately, with more wit than jokes to […]
The Economist’s editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (“KAL”) was featured in Malibu Magazine. Unlike most profile articles that ask quetions like “when did you start cartooning….” this one asks more insightful ones (“Describe your personality in 10 words or less”, “If you were reincarnated, who or what would you like to come back as?”, etc. )Here’s […]
Interesting story out of the New York Times about Irwin Hasen, who used to draw the syndicated comic strip Dondi. He’s still “working” at age 93. Now, fresh Dondi cartoons are published only on the walls of the Nectar Cafe at Madison Avenue and 79th Street, where nearly every morning for the past 30 years […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson took an end of year vacation and offered local politicians the opportunity to provide the cartoons while she’s away according to Jim Romenesko.The mayor provided the first cartoon (see it via her Facebook account). Future cartoons will be provided by a state representative, city councilwoman and the acting […]
Today’s Rhymes with Orange speaks for a lot of us. I’m feeling that Santa had better stay in business, too, given the options out there for the rest of us.Fortunately, I never figured on retiring anyway. Most writers don’t, in part because they can’t afford to, even in good times, and in part because other […]
You’ve seen those chalk art that when looked at from the right angle are 3 dimensionally photorealistic. I found some examples that are more ‘cartoonish’ but nonetheless amazing.See the rest at My Modern Met.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist David Horsey is heading to the L.A. Times. David, a two-time Pulitzer winner, has been working for Hearst newspapers since the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went under in 2009. The Seattle Times reports that David will join the Times’ political team providing both cartoons and commentary similar to what he’s produced for the […]
Piers Baker, creator of Ollie and Quentin has announced that his strip is ending at the end of this year due to lack of sales. It was launched four years ago. Piers hinted earlier this year that the strip has been a rough sale to newspapers, but he’s been grateful for the experience. So, what […]
Sarah Laing is back. You’ll have to go to her blog to read the rest of this cartoon, and you should want to.It’s easier to bookmark a link than to delete that bookmark later (well, marginally), so when Sarah put “Let Me Be Frank” on hiatus a few months ago in order to work on […]
Clay Bennett is a longtime favorite of mine, both for his clean style and for his ability to reduce things to the simple concepts a political cartoon must contain, but without oversimplifying a complex issue.Well, I’m not his only fan. Bennett has just won the Ranan Lurie award from the United Nations for this cartoon, […]
There are several strips I keep reading waiting for them to find their legs. “Barney & Clyde” has really been wandering from piller to post since it launched a year and a half ago, but, in the last few months, it has begun to gain stability and to provide some laughs, albeit pretty far removed […]
I posted news earlier about Clay Bennett winning this year’s Lurie Award. I hadn’t seen his winning cartoon before today and thought there had to be a story behind it, so I pinged Clay to see if there was. Sure enough there is. A good example of serendipity mixed with deadline pressure.Here’s what he told […]
The 2011 Lurie UN Award has been announced with Chattanooga Times Free Press’ Clay Bennett taking the top honor (see his cartoon below).Taking second and third are Rick McKee (The Augusta Chronicle) and David Pope (The Canberra Times) respectively. American editorial cartoonist who were given Citations of Excellence included Jimmy Margulies, Robert Ariail, and Ed […]