Politico reporter Chris Frates had a front row seat to a heated email exchange between Doonebury creator Garry Trudeau and lobbyist Lanny Davis over last week’s storyline involving lobbyists for Arab dictators. Last Friday’s strip specifically mentioned Davis as one who is representing the reprehensible Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo. Davis criticized the cartoon in Politico […]
Monty and his pal Moondog are lost in the woods this week.I don’t often enjoy camping arcs, because I grew up in the woods and don’t have the right point of view, I suppose, but I’m a sucker for silly and so far, so good.A lot of the humor in most “out in the country” […]
More tributes are rolling out for Bill Gallo, the New York Daily News sports cartoonist and columnist who passed away Tuesday. Matt Marrone of ESPNNewYork.com has posted audio recordings of discussions he had with Bill about highlights of his career.Go listen to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Each piece is only about 3 […]
Bill Gallo, a legendary sports cartoonist, died Tuesday. Drew Litton, a sports cartoonist himself, drew this tribute to his inspiration and mentor.Obituary cartoons generally range from pointless to offensively maudlin, and only very rarely rise to the level of terrific. Litton could have drawn any sort of Pearly Gates crap, patted himself on the back […]
With this morning’s sad news of Bill Gallo’s passing, I asked the few sports cartoonists still drawing for their reactions. Bill Hinds, creator of Cleats and co-creator of Tank McNamara tells me that Bill was a legend.Whenever I would talk to him I couldn’t help but start playing Six Degrees of Bill Gallo in my […]
A Washington state man paid The Olympian $190 to drop Doonesbury for a day so he could run his own comic strip to pop the question. The title of the strip was “Happy Birthday Sandra Kay” and in the last panel he wrote, “As a cartoonist, this seems like the most natural place to ask […]
New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo has passed away from complications to pneumonia last night according to the Daily News. “My father is a lasting legend to New York, and to New York sports,” said Gallo’s son, Greg. “He will be forever thought of as a great cartoonist for the Daily News, […]
With today’s Strange Brew, John Deering may be closer to the truth than he intended.I mean, this is a funny joke, and one must never dismiss the role humor plays in cartooning.But then, too, one shouldn’t dismiss the role truth plays in humor.Let’s overthink this together!The Odyssey goes back about 2800 years. The thing about […]
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists.Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation.Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the only non-altie […]
An editorial cartoon by Free Lance-Star editorial cartoonist Clay Jones was prominently discussed on a recent Rachel Maddow program discussing reaction to who gets credit for Osama Bin Laden’s death. You can see the segment below. When I contacted Clay for reaction, he mentioned the cartoon was rejected by his editor for the paper but […]
Jeff Knurek is the cartoonist behind the Jumble puzzle. Jesse Morton has posted a video of him drawing and explaining his work with the puzzle.Untitled from Jesse Morton on Vimeo.
Chris Sparks who is heading up the Team Cul de Sac project raising money for a Parkinson’s cure has announced that they are extending the deadline for cartoonists still wanting to contribute to the cause. He writes:We have extended the deadline until June 17th! we did this for a couple of reasons. Lee Salem, Caty […]
Sarah Laing, whose personal blog has been featured here, has now started “44 ways of looking at an apple,” which presents small, well-crafted cartoons illustrating small moments involving, yes, apples. It is a lovely venture.Having spent a little more than a dozen years in apple country myself, I’ve got nothing against her stated goal: “I’m […]
The Cartoonist Studio’s Cartoon Contest has yielded a winner. Daniel Beyer is the winner and takes home a development contract with Creators Syndicate. Daniel isn’t new to cartooning. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Reader’s Digest and he has a single panel feature on Comics Sherpa called Long Story Short.Daniel works in […]
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) was last weekend and with it the results of the Doug Wright award to honor the best of Canadian cartoonists. The three winners are:Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (BEST BOOK) Alex Fellows for Spain and Morocco (BEST EMERGING TALENT) Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (PIGSKIN PETERS AWARD for experimental and […]