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News Briefs for January 6, 2009

Jan 6, 2009 by Alan Gardner

» Magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson has relaunched his site with new features.
» Jason Killingsworth writes in Paste Magazine the five reasons he still loves Calvin and Hobbes.
» Lynn Johnston creates five cartoon thank you cards for med students to give to their patience whom they practice on.
» Tom Richmond writes how to work for MAD [...]

Section: Comic strips

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Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline: February 6

Jan 6, 2009 by Alan Gardner

This year’s Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline for college students is February 6th. Applicants must be students in the US, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year of college during the 2009-2010 academic year. Applicants DO NOT have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship. Those wishing to [...]

Section: Awards

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NCS division awards entries due January 30

Jan 6, 2009 by Alan Gardner

Mike Lynch has posted the deadlines and requirements for submitting your entry for the National Cartoonist Society’s division awards. The deadline is January 30 and you do not have to be a member of the NCS to be considered, though the work should have been published between December 1 of 2007 and December 31 of [...]

Section: Comic strips

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Comic strip finalists announced for Weblogs Award

Jan 5, 2009 by Alan Gardner

The 2008 Weblog Award finalists have been announced. In the category of best comic strip, the final 10 include: Day By Day, Calamities of Nature, Town Called Dobson, Garfield Minus Garfield, What The Duck, The Book of Biff, Medium Large, Dilbert, Jesus and Mo and xkcd.
Voting begins sometime today through the 12th. On a related [...]

Section: Awards

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Rall picks another fight, this one with Newsweek

Jan 5, 2009 by Alan Gardner

After writing a plucky letter to Time Magazine for their selection of Top 10 editorial cartoons for 2008, AAEC President Ted Rall has written a letter to the editor of Newsweek regarding their cartoon selections.
It reads:
To the Editor:
There’s a saying among political cartoonists: “I thought my cartoon was good. But then it appeared in [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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Barkeater Lake turns 10; go read anniversary blog

Jan 5, 2009 by Alan Gardner

Corey Pandolph’s Barkeater Lake turns 10 years old this year. It was first called Social Order and ran in the Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, ME before being picked up in 2002 by United Media and ran on comics.com with the new title Barkeater Lake. In commemoration of the last 10 years, Corey has launched [...]

Section: Anniversaries

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Year end review for 2008: Rollercoaster

Dec 31, 2008 by Alan Gardner

2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help [...]

Section: AAEC

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Daily Cartoonist closed for holidays

Dec 26, 2008 by Alan Gardner

I’m taking the rest of the holiday off. I’ll be posting the annual End of the Year review sometime between today and, well the end of the year. If something big and newsworthy does happen, I’ll post that as well.
Enjoy the holidays and I’ll see you back here on January 5th.

Section: Daily Cartoonist

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Richard Thompson draws next Stay Tooned! cover

Dec 22, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Just received news from John Read, of Stay Tooned! magazine, that Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson will be the featured cover artist for Issue 3 (see cover above). Richard will be one of the featured cartoonists in the magazine as will Chad Carpenter, Benita Epstein, Jim Scancarelli, Mike Witmer, plus Paul Fell and R.J. [...]

Section: Magazines

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KAL creates and designs new credit crunch game

Dec 19, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has created and designed a new board game for this month’s Christmas double edition of the magazine. The game is called “Credit Crunch.” The rules are explained as:
Players start with 500m econos each. One player doubles as banker.
Players move round by throwing four coins and progressing as many [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon turns 90

Dec 18, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel will turn 90 years old tomorrow. The feature started by Robert Ripley in 1918 to fill space in the New York Globe. Robert took a file of “dubious athletic achievements” and created a feature called Champs and Chumps which was then later retitled to Perceive it or [...]

Section: Comic history

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ANC President sues cartoonist “Zapiro” for libel

Dec 18, 2008 by Alan Gardner

African National Congress President Jacob Zuma has filed a libel suit against editorial cartoonist Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro for the amount of $712,300 over a controversial cartoon published in September that depicted Lady Justice being held down by four ANC members who urged Zuma to rape her. Zuma had been charged with rape in 2005, but [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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AAEC Prez opposes Nast Award entry fee increase

Dec 18, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Ted Rall, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president, has written an open letter to the Overseas Press Club of America president, Mr. Allen Dodds Frank, over an increase in the awards entry fee from $150 to $175 and accuses the organization of using the fees as a “revenue enhancing” operation at the expense of [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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Thomas “TAB” Boldt laid off from Sun Media

Dec 18, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The journalism melt down that has reduced the number of staff editorial cartoonists by 18% this year isn’t just an American phenomenon. The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists announced that Thomas “TAB” Boldt, cartoonist for Sun Media, has been laid off. He’s been with Sun Media (who owns dailies across Canada) since 2001.
Sue Dewar, Tim [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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Rall responds to Time’s top 10 editorial cartoons

Dec 18, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president Ted Rall has fired off a letter to Time Magazine regarding their “bland, inane, and just plain stupid” choice of editorial cartoons in this year’s selection of the year’s top 10.
His letter in its entirety:
To the Editor:
Your list of the Top 10 Editorial Cartoons of 2008 is an insult [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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