Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith took first place in the Best of the West journalism contest. The Best of the West is an award honoring professional journalists in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Second place went to Mike Keefe of the Denver […]
When word came yesterday that Gannett was laying off upwards of 700 employees across their chain, it had potential to impact a staff cartoonist. As far as I can tell, Doug MacGregor of the Ft. Myers News-Press was the only cartoonist casualty this round. Doug has been with the News-Press since 1988 and has been […]
Sad news for Gannett employees. Gannett said it would eliminate 700 jobs in its Community Publishing division, laying off 3 percent of its employees across newspapers like The Courier-Journal of Louisville, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Indianapolis Star. The company’s flagship paper, USA Today, just went through a round of cuts last summer and will […]
The US State Department has rescinded the invitation to Majed Badra to participate in its International Visitor Leadership Program because of some of editorial cartoons on his website that were deemed “anti-Semitic and extremely objectionable.” The leadership program brings dozens of political cartoonists from around the world to tour the US for three weeks to […]
The New York Times has sent an email to earlier contributors to their Week in Review section that they will no longer be publishing editorial cartoons and instead run its “own cartoon feature” similar to that of a longer form comic strip or graphic novel.The revamped Week in Review section is slated to debut on […]
Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, has released an iPhone app for little kids. The app is called Hungry Monster and is played by feeding a yellow monster various types of food which evoke a different reaction from the monster.From the iTunes description: Feed Sydney a banana and […]
Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) has once again depicted South African president Jacob Zuma preparing to rape a woman. This cartoon depicts Zuma with iconic shower head in front of a woman labeled “Free Speech” being held by the ANC with Lady Justice (the target of the last rape cartoon) warning Free Speech “Fight, sister, fight!”The […]
Robert Ariail (Spartanburg Herald-Journal), Clay Bennett (Chattanooga Times Free Press) and Jeff Parker (Florida Today) were named as finalists in The Society of Professional Journalists announced the finalists for the 61st annual Green Eyeshade Awards. The regional contest recongnizes outstanding journalism in 11 southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South […]
Earlier this week, it was questioned whether a cartoon drawn by Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler was lifted from a fake headline by Andy Borowitz. According to Jim Romenesko, Jeff’s editors have investigated the cartoon in question and have concluded the timing of the two was a big coincidence.Email from Dispatch editor Ben Marrison […]
Markos “kos” Moulitsas, the founder of the leading liberal blog Daily Kos, announced that he has added Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore to the weekly line up. Mark joins Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow), Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors and Eric Lewis in the weekly rotataion. Mark’s work appears on Thursdays.Kos writes:I’ve long dreamed of bringing […]
The accusation of plagiarism has raised it’s ugly head and is looking at Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler. According to Jim Romenesko, a headline by Andy Borowitz ran last Thursday stating, “New Study Finds iPad is Cure for Adultery; Owners ‘Stop Noticing Other People Altogether” is eerily similar to a cartoon Jeff ran three […]
A bit of industry honors about our editorial cartoonist friends up north. Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail is the winner of this year’s National Newspaper Award. Finalists for the big award include Serge Chapleau of the La Presse (Montreal) and Terry Mosher (AKA “Aislin“) of the Gazette (Montreal).
Lee Judge who is the Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist and blogs about the KC Royals recently wrote:About a month ago, I wrote that Wilson Betemit should be willing to get hit by a pitch (it was an 81-mph slider) with the bases loaded in a tie game. Then I started thinking ? what if […]
Not sure how I missed this one, but a hearty congrats to Mike Peters nonetheless. Mike was honored with the 72nd annual Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for best editorial cartooning on international affairs. This is the second big prize of the year. He was honored with this year’s National Headliner Awards. In an […]
University of New Mexico African-American students are demanded and received an apology from the student paper, The Daily Lobo, after it ran a cartoon depicting the scene from The Lion King where the monkey Rafiki holds up the young Simba lion cub, but in the drawing President Barak Obama was the Rafiki character holding Osama […]