Tagged as: College Cartoonists

Andy Marlette, Doug Marlette’s nephew has a write up in the Pensacola News Journal that reviews his controversies that he’s stirred in his young college career.

State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist.As the designated winner, he’ll receive a free trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Washington D.C.First Runner-up for the award was Sam Ayres, of Yale University, and Nathan Rohde, […]

Erin Russell, a senior at the University of Michigan, has won the Charles M. Schulz Award for college cartooning. Her comic strip Jaded Joy runs in The Michigan Daily and is described as a comic that “chronicles the drama of a spirited 7 year-old girl named Joy, who is intelligent, independent, keenly observant, and a […]

The story that I covered yesterday regarding the Harvard Crimson editorial cartoonist Kathleen Breeden that was fired for alleged plagiarism is getting some national attention in some big newspapers. The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the New York Sun are just a few of the papers to report on the incident.Reaction from the cartoonists that […]

The Harvard Crimson’s editorial cartoonist, Kathleen Breeden’s editorial cartoons are coming under scrutiny for possible plagiarism.  An unnamed individual informed the the newspaper Saturday and pointed out the similarities of her work with those on Cagle.com.  In question are four cartoons published on September 22nd and October. 11, 18 and 25th.

Over at the University of Virginia, there is a religious cartoon controversy brewing. Two comics ran on the 23rd and 24th of August – the first depicting the Crucifixion with a parabolic graph superimposed over Christ and the second features dialog between Mary and Joseph about an immaculately transmitted rash.The Catholic League for Religious and […]

I assume that if you’re smart enough to be working on your masters or Ph.d, and you were working in the cartooning field, you’d know about this, but here it is any way.The Swann Foundation is offering $15,000 to help with one’s scholarly research in the area of cartoon or caricature. Requirements are found on […]

The Michigan Daily has a story regarding a cartoon that is sparking a possible boycott from the NAACP. The University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People may be considering boycotting The Michigan Daily because of an editorial cartoon it published Nov. 28. The cartoon displays a classroom of smiling dark-skinned […]

Congrats to a bunch of aspiring cartoonists. From a press release off of Universal Presses web site: Student Cartoonists’ Awards Announced Kansas City, MO (12/05/2005) Four first place winners were selected among many aspiring young cartoonists who participated in the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) /Associate Collegiate Press Cartooning (ACP) Awards, co-sponsored by Universal Press […]

The Hartford Courant has a great article on Eric Shansby, who at age 17 was asked to illustrate Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten’s Below the Beltway column. It’s been two years and Shansby is now at Yale and still working with Weingarten. Weingarten tells it differently.”After I talked to his high school journalism class, […]

Current Events magazine is sponsoring an editorial cartoon contest. The prize is only $50, so it probably isn’t a contest for professional editorial cartoonists. Perhaps a hungry college cartoonist can take a swing at it.Cartoon must by post marked by October 28.

An editorial cartoon created by Andy Marlette, nephew to editorial cartoon Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette, has caused quite a racial fire storm at the University of Florida. The cartoon, published mid-September, is still provoking national attention. Gainsville.com has a write up on the aftermath first published on Sept. 19.The young Marlette stands behind his […]