The San Diego Union-Tribute has released an iPhone/iPad app for readers to get a month’s worth of Steve Breen editorial cartoons. The app is a free download, but requires a subscription fee (different for paper subscribers or non-subscribers). The app includes every Breen cartoon for the month.While you’re in iTunes, be sure to check out […]
Bill McGraw reports that Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne will no longer be drawing editorial cartoons for the paper. He will remain on staff as a writer for the editorial page.From Deadline Detroit:Payne was a victim of the ongoing cutbacks at Detroit’s two daily newspapers as they continue to lose print circulation in an […]
Sad news from the Vancouver Sun. In more than 40 years with The Vancouver Sun, editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson won more National Newspaper Awards than any other Canadian journalist. Behind all that success, friends remember a low-key man with a wry sense of humour who was a willing mentor to many younger cartoonists. “He didn’t […]
The Chronicle Herald profiles Michael de Adder who has two books out de PICTIONS (a collection of his editorial cartoons) and You Might Be from Nova Scotia If… (a book poking fun at people, politics of Nova Scotia). The best part of the job, de Adder says, is knowing he can affect people, and their […]
Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith and editorial page editor Matt Hufman set off to explore the great state of Nevada to commemorate its 150th birthday. The Sun has a cool web site with their day to day travels and dispatches.
Editorial cartoonist Jim Lange spent 58 years at The Oklahoman. He passed away in 2009. His son, Robert, has written a book about his father called “John Q: The Life and Times of Jim Lange“.From the Oklahoman: ?My dad passed away about four years ago,? the author said. ?I’d thought to myself over the years […]
Mike Rhode was on hand (and one of the judges) for the Robert F Kennedy Journalism award ceremony in Washington DC. He’s posted pics of the goings on. Jen Sorenson was this year’s winner. Her great piece, “An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance” was one of her cartoon submissions.
From The Times-Picayune: Eldon Pletcher, The Times-Picayune’s editorial cartoonist from 1966 to 1984, died Sunday of emphysema and congestive heart failure at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif. He was 91. … A native of Goshen, Ind., Mr. Pletcher studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the Army in 1943. He served […]
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has proclaimed that tomorrow is “Joel Pett Day”. The announcement was during a fund-raiser and opening reception of an exhibit of Joel Pett’s 30 years at the Lexington Herald-Leader.From the Herald-Leader: Pett said “the only other time a politician tried to give me something was when I won the Pulitzer in […]
As of today, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is under the leadership of Pulitzer Prize winning animation editorial cartoonist and controversy maker Mark Fiore. Outgoing President Matt Wuerker will serve on the board as the Immediate Past President which I believe means his drinks are free for a year. Or should be.The rest of […]
Robert Ariail and Kate Salley Palmer speak about editorial cartooning at USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will have an exhibit of his work at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY. The exhibit opens September 18 and runs through the end of October. The opening reception features Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News), Jack Ohman (Sacramento Bee), Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and William Hamilton (The New Yorker). […]
Back in July, editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker announced that he was voluntarily stepping away from his staff job that he’s held for the last 21 years with Florida Today. Jeff cited the need to reduce workload and spend more time working on the comic strip Dustin that he co-created with former Times-Picayune editorial cartoonist Steve […]
Richard Schickel reviews the Herbert Block documentary “Herblock: The Black & the White” for Truthdig.com. But here’s a snippet from Schickel about Herblock: He seems to have had a quiet confidence, not particularly eager to force his favorites on those he consulted, apparently hiding his hand about the ideas he favored. He was, dammit, a […]
Wisconsin state journal editorial cartoonist Phil Hands has been added to the staff roster after eight years as a freelancer. He’ll continue to do three cartoons a week and a caption contest. As a staff job, he’ll continue to draw the same number of cartoons but will also manage the features pages including the comics, […]