ABTech profiles one of their alum, Chris Sparks, who is leading the Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkinsons Disease research. The Cul de Sac project solicited original art from notable cartoonists to be auctioned off as well as sell a book collection of the art that is due out next spring.In […]

According to Poynter David Simpson has resigned from his contract position at the Urban Tulsa. According to the paper’s creative director, the second plagiarized cartoon went to press before the issue of originality came to light. In a separate post on Poynter, the paper’s publisher plans to respond to the accusations of plagiarism in the […]

John Sherffius, the editorial cartoonist for the Boulder Camera, has announced that he’s retiring from editorial cartooning. In an email sent to the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists email list group, he writes:“I wanted to let you, and the AAEC, know that this will be my last week at the Boulder Camera, as I am […]

If you’ll remember Robert Crumb was supposed to be the headlining appearance at the Graphic arts festival in Sydney Australia in August, but cancelled his trip after The Sunday Telegraph described him as a “self-confessed sex pervert” and a “very warped human being.” Part of his appearance was a sit down interview on stage with […]

In light of the recent cases of David Simpson’s plagiarism in the Urban Tulsa, the Toy & Action Figure Museum has retracted Simpson’s 2005 induction into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame. Here is the statement in full by Musuem Director Lisa Driskill:Due to the recent revelation of another apparent incidence of plagiarism on the […]

International political cartoons tend to be highly metaphorical. I don’t know how much the change of language over comparatively smaller geographic areas has to do with this and how much it simply is how political cartoons have evolved overseas, but it remains a fact of cartooning.The net effect for me, as someone raised on the […]

This morning I asked jokingly if today’s new David Simpson cartoon was an original. Turns out it’s not. A Daily Cartoonist reader who wished to remain anonymous found the source of the cartoon in the Jeff MacNelly official archives (last cartoon on the page). He tells me it took him about five minutes to find […]

From MSNBC:Competing against Halloween parties and contending with an unseasonal blizzard in the Northeast, DreamWorks Animation?s “Puss in Boots,” distributed by Paramount, purred its way to the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated $34 million. That amounted to a new Halloween weekend record, leaping over the $33.6 million that “Saw […]

The annual International Society of Caricature Artist’s convention is set for November 13-18 i Clearwater FL.From MAD Magazine cartoonist and The Mad Art of Caricature author Tom Richmond:About 200 professional caricaturists, ranging from party artists to illustrators to sculptors to animators, descend on the unsuspecting host resort for 5 days. They spend their time drawing […]

NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond recently released his new book The Mad Art of Caricature!. It’s a great book that I highly recommend you check it out and buy. A notable book like this certainly could have found a print publisher, but Tom opted to explore and publish through self-publishing. He posted […]

Misery Loves Sherman creator (and Eisner and Harvey award nominee) Chris Eliopoulos has penned (or typed) a must read for anyone working their way up in the comic industry. The topic – not how to break into comics, but how to stay.If you’re good enough, you’re not good enough. I hear so many people wanting […]

I watched and waited all last week for any updates regarding the accusations that Urban Tulsa cartoonist David Simpson had blatantly plagiarized a Jeff MacNelly editorial cartoon. No emails were returned, no notices posted on their website or twitter account that they even acknowledged being aware of any “WTF?” from anyone from Poynter on down […]

Halloween should be a dream for cartoonists, but, while the graphic potential is high, there are only so many gags: Parents eat the candy, kids try to amass great quantities of candy, kids eat too much candy, etc. And then each year, there is something trendy to work into the strips — bankers and OWS […]

Today’s Pat Oliphant cartoon puts me in mind of a story I’ve probably told here before, but am about to tell again.In the mid-to-late 1970s sometime, my then-wife and I were visiting my grandfather, an archetypal product of the American dream who had worked his way up from the mines to the executive offices. We […]

Pab Sungenis combines cultural literacy with demented foolishness on a level I really appreciate, and today’s “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” is the conclusion of a short arc shoving a stick into the spokes of that nonsensical movie, “Anonymous,” which probes the theory that William Shakespeare was actually born in Kenya.Or something.I don’t particularly […]