Tom Racine has released a three part Tall Tale Radio podcast with The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher. From Tom: Kevin Kallaugher, or KAL, world famous editorial cartoonist and caricaturist of ?The Economist? and ?The Baltimore Sun,? talks to Tall Tale Radio about his early days and influences, how he went from scraping wallpaper […]
Michael Cavna reports on last Friday’s Cartoons and Cocktails gala in Washington DC which raised $20k by auctioning off 160 or so original editorial cartoons. The proceeds goes to the National Press Club.Among the notable pieces auctioned off was Pat Bagley’s cartoon of Malala Yousafzai (see below). The original cartoon was auctioned off earlier this […]
Fascinating story out of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Tom Engelhardt cartoon that was published in 1963 just hours before President Kennedy was shot. The cartoon depicted Kennedy in Texas, in a box, between shooters. Worst possible timing of a cartoon ever.The newspaper, realizing the cartoon had already been sent out, dispatched their trucks […]
/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]
Fox News profiles Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”): Shapiro, 55, has made a career of stripping away taboos and artifice with satire. Sometimes he gets sued, most notably by President Jacob Zuma. The Mandela cartoon in April for The Times, a South African newspaper, was one of his gentler efforts and a commentary on a nation that […]
Signe Wilkinson was mugged at gun-point last Sunday about a block from her house. The mugger demanded her purse and claimed to have a gun which Signe believed to be true. The purse the mugger made off with was actually a canvas bag that Signe was carrying filled with pens, paper and sketches of her […]
The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has a dizzy array of gigs lined up – some of which will take him across the world. The Economist is heading out on an international tour called “The Year in 2014.” KAL will traveling with the tour to Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai. That last stop […]
Last month news broke that Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne was being reassigned as an editorial page writer and no longer a staff cartoonist. According to Deadline Detroit, Henry also being tasked with the paper’s auto critic.Here’s a snippet from the announcement by Business Editor Joanna Firestone (which if you read the whole thing […]
Conservative editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis has changed his position on same-sex marriage. The Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist ran a cartoon last week depicting Abraham Lincoln holding a rainbow colored flag in response to Illinois state lawmakers approving same-sex marriage for their state. He states that he had always been protective of the sanctity of marriage, […]
The New Orleans Advocate has announced that it has hired editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman away from Newsday. Here’s Walt talking about his decision to return to Louisiana, where he used to work for the Times-Picayune prior to moving to New York. ?A few years ago at a Tulane art fair, I purchased a brass skeleton […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones, who was laid off from the Freelance-Star in 2012 due to budget cuts, is set to return to his former paper this Sunday as a freelance cartoonist. Clay will be contributing a weekly local cartoon to the Sunday edition and a cartoon on the topic of his choosing for the online […]
I’ll admit up front, that I wonder if this exchange between South Australian Minister Chloe Fox and The Advertiser Duke Fandango Flamingo is satirical – like an article in The Onion. But here’s the gist of it: The Advertiser ran a cartoon by Jos Valdman after the paper brought to light a high number of […]
An editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich that ran in the New York Daily News has caused a bit of a stir for Washington DC residents who say that comparing the Redskins logo to images of the Nazi and Confederate flag is offensive. Here’s WUSA9.
Editorial cartoonist Jeremy Nell, who goes by the pen name Jerm, has joined eNCA – the largest television news network in South Africa and will be providing four cartoons a week. His first cartoon appeared Tuesday. Says Jeremy Nell, editorial cartoonist: “While print media dwindles, I am chuffed to be at the forefront of South […]