I broke the news last week that Gary Varvel would be this year’s Robert F. Kennedy award for editorial cartooning and now it is official. The award is given to journalists to recognize their work on human rights, social justice, and the power of individuals to make a difference. Varvel’s 11-part series, “The Path of […]

Bill Watterson came out of retirement – albeit briefly – to submit a oil painting to Richard Thompson’s Team Cul de Sac effort to raise money for a cure for Parkinson Disease.As Richard tells it on his blog…So I was floored when I got a call yesterday from Chris [Sparks] saying that Caty Neis, who’s […]

The western media has had plenty of cartoons about the price of oil, but at Cartoon Movement today, Kenyan cartoonist Victor Ndula comments on its cost, not in terms of reindeer and polar bears, but from an African perspective.I’m certainly aware of the price at the pump — I recently spent $62 for a fillup […]

Senator Arthur Vandenburg (R-Mich) would have fit pretty well into the current Republican party, as far as economics goes, since he was a staunch opponent of the New Deal. But I doubt the current Republicans would forgive his support of the United Nations and, in particular, they would not want to hear that the author […]

Among the things we might consider to save tax money, how about cutting off these bloodsuckers? Tom the Dancing Bug on the scam artists and thieves who recruit the underemployed to apply for Pell Grants and student loans, and to use up their GI Bill funding on their behalf, pressuring people to sign up who […]

  I may be a daily blogger, but I still have my Luddite side, as well as my cheap side, and have not gone to a Smartphone. This is in part because, as a struggling freelancer, I have enough to do just to pay for access at home, never mind adding another monthly bill so […]

Oh Brother! co-creators Jay Stephens and Bob Weber, Jr.s ran a contest entitled, “Is Your Kid A Character?” to find a child who according to their parent’s account should be in a comic. The winner is drawn into a Oh Brother! panel (yesterday). The contest was judged by a panel of mommy bloggers. The winner, […]

You knew that there are only a handful of voice actors behind the myriad of Simpson’s characters, right? But did you know who voices which character? Hector Cortez, over at the Animation Blog, has posted an infochart on which voice talent is behind the various characters and towns peoples. Check out his blog for a […]

Daryl Cagle has written an interesting post about the perceived value of editorial cartoons on the web.With the poor performance of their artist-name cartoons page, there was no way I could convince the Yahoo News people that editorial cartoons had value ? even with the popularity of our topical cartoon content on Cagle.com. Unfortunately, this […]

Famed MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones will have his own comic book entitled, “Sergio Aragones Funnies.” Robot6 describes the comic as, “an assortment of autobiographical anecdotes, perplexing puzzles, slap-happy short stories, as well as Sergio’s unique and hilarious pantomimes and gags.”Bongo Comics is Matt Groening’s comic line and Serio has been contributing to Bongo Comics […]

It’s no longer news that Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, but, in the days that followed, the portfolios of the runners-up, Matt Davies and Joel Pett, have also come to light.So here’s a chance to see 60 pretty doggone good cartoons by simply clicking on […]

1982 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent will be the focus of a new exhibit at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in Austin, TX. Ben was the editorial cartoonist for Austin American Statesman for 35 years. The exhibit, entitled Always Hitting a Nerve: Editorial Cartoons by Ben Sargent, contains original art from […]

Rhymes With Orange. The woman has a talent for silly that I greatly admire.And a seduction that just continued to play on an endless loop really would be cool. Escher’s work can’t exist in reality, but what has reality ever had to do with seduction? 

Anton Emdin, one of this year’s NCS nominees in the Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has posted a tutorial on inking with a brush. Inking is fun! There’s something intoxicating and slightly scary about laying down permanent ink over a sketch you may have spent hours on. When I was starting out I often felt that […]

Yesterday Mike Keefe won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. I wanted to write a round-up of some of the loose ends regarding the Pulitzer selection that wasn’t available when I posted the announcement.From Mike’s editor we have a congratulatory statement accounting Mike’s longevity in the field:“This is fabulous for Mike Keefe,” said Post editor […]