The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner is Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles. Tom has been with the Post since 2002, taking the reins from Herblock himself who retired in 2001. Previous to the Post, Toles worked for The Buffalo News, The Buffalo Courier-Express, The New York Daily News, The New Republic […]
RC Harvey examines the last year’s “best of” collections for editorial cartooning.In summation: Brooks’ “Best of” gives too much space to “bush-leaguers and second-stringers” and more serious cartoonists no longer contribute to it.Cagle’s annual didn’t run this year. Check them out online.Turnblooms’s “Prizewinning” tome is due out in March.
Tom Toles has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, which is particularly sweet given that he took over Herb Block’s spot at the Washington Post after that legendary cartoonist’s death.The Post is also home to one of the better comics columns and Michael Cavna’s write-up on this is the definitive report, and, best of […]
Unless you’re unplugged from the world, you’ve probably noticed actor Charlie Sheen has gone rogue making really bizarre statements during a series of media blitz appearances and interviews. Two individuals have been collecting some of bizarre statements and applying them to The Family Circus.
*Phew!*After a rant like yesterday’s, it’s good to just relax with something really, really stupid, like today’s Pros & Cons.Best part is that Stan doesn’t even pause in what he’s doing, much less look over. You can see in the second panel that he did hear what was said, but he’s apparently been there before.Kieran […]
Back in November editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey was dropped to part-time status by his paper, The Clarion-Ledger. He’s got a new gig now… in radio.Here’s what he wrote about his experience after losing his full-time gig.It wasn’t easy. Anger kept poking its nose under the tent. And I kept beating it back – some days […]
iFanboy.com reports that a graphic novel entitled “Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown” will be available on the 29th of this month. The graphic novel is being released in conjunction with a direct to video release of the same title. The graphic novel is 80 pages, written by Charles Schulz but adapted by Craig […]
Yesterday was a pretty stacked day and I didn’t get a chance to post what I consider significant news. Donna Lewis’ Reply All launched yesterday. It is running in the Washington Post replacing Watch Your Head. She was also invited to do a live chat with the Washington Post. Transcript is found here.The New York […]
Candorville this week is chronicling (heh heh) the death spiral of the newspaper industry.There haven’t been a lot of points over the past eight or 10 years where this story arc wouldn’t be somewhat timely, but it’s particularly so this week, given that the NY Daily News just slashed its comics by 33 percent and […]
Jim Day, the editorial cartoonist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that he was laid off last week and “asked to leave the building that day and told I would not be allowed to return.”Jim started his career with the Review-Journal in 1981 as newsroom graphics editor; in 1991 he accepted the job of full […]
The South African Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint brought by the Young Communist League and its national secretary Buti Manamela alleging that the “Lady Justice” editorial cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) depicting the now President of South Africa Jacob Zuma readying to rape Lady Justice. The commission found the cartoon was “free, open, […]
Comics Reporter spotlighted this timely blog entry on the recent earthquake in New Zealand. This is only the first of several multi-panel pieces that comprise the blog entry, so go have a look at the rest.The blogger/cartoonist/writer/graphic designer, Sarah E. Laing, lives in Auckland and her blog is a reflection on whatever crosses her path, […]
I’ve been waiting for a “Sinfest” to come along that (first criterion) was worthy of being named CSOTD and (second criterion) would be comprehensible to newcomers and (finally) wouldn’t offend people who had not before come across this Manichean delight.There have been many, many that satisfied the first criterion. This is a brilliantly conceived and […]
Ed Stein may be waxing nostalgic this week, as his new strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” shifts focus from the home to the office, where everyone except ownership is preparing to do more with less.”Freshly Squeezed” is a spinoff from “Denver Square,” a strip Ed did for The Rocky Mountain News for about a decade. Launched September […]
Here’s a round up of some of the buzz around Marvel’s Iron Man 3 movie franchise. Some of it’s old new, some newer.Shane Black is taking the helms as writer-director for the third installment. Black wrote the first two Lethal Weapon films and The Last Boy Scout. He’s proven he can do action movies. Jon […]