The Daily Cartoonist

CNN profiles Ali Ferzat

CNN profiles Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, whose hands were beaten by Syrian leader al-Assad loyalists. The CNN story offers a few details I haven’t seen before. Early reports suggested that three men stopped at the side of the road to offer assistance to Ali after he was beaten close to death. But the CNN report [...]

Posted on: May 22, 2013,  Section: International, Comments: 0 Comments

Video: Steve Breen drawing caricatures in Little Italy

Posted on: May 22, 2013,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments

Rejected For Better or For Worse strips

Lynn Johnston has posted several strips that never hit the newspaper – or some that did after getting reworked. Several times she notes that some strips should have run, but sometimes she was just too hard of a self-editor and othertimes, the gag was okay by today’s standards, but not so much for the early [...]

Posted on: May 22, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment

Dick Locher announces retirement

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis announces that fellow cartoonist Dick Locher is retiring after 40 years with the Tribune. Dick’s career as an editorial cartoonist began inexplicably in 1973 when he was offered the staff cartoonist position at the Chicago Tribune even though he had no experience in the job. (He had assisted on [...]

Posted on: May 20, 2013,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 11 Comments

Employee sues Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons

Jim Romenesko has details on a lawsuit filed against Cagle Cartoons Inc. and Daryl Cagle by one of his employees Cari Dawson Bartley. The suit appears to be an issue of compensation. From Romenesko: When Plaintiff began her employment with Defendants, she was paid on an hourly basis. Over the past four (4) years, Plaintiff [...]

Posted on: May 20, 2013,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Syndicates, Comments: 14 Comments

NCS panel: Women in Cartooning

Part of the National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards weekend is a panel entitled Women in Cartooning. Panelists will include Hilary Price (Rhymes with Orange), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Lynn Johnston (For Better or Worse), Terri Libenson (Pajama Diaries) and Jen Sorenson (Slowpoke). The event is presented by Carlow University and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation. From [...]

Posted on: May 17, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 10 Comments

Interviewed: Kerry G. Johnson

Yolanda Johnson Bryant interviews editorial cartoonist Kerry G. Johnson who is also an art director, caricaturist, cartoonist and graphic designer. Listen to internet radio with ymjauthor on BlogTalkRadio

Posted on: May 16, 2013,  Section: Cartoons, comic, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments

Frank Cho banned from Facebook

Robot 6 reports that Frank Cho was blocked from Facebook for 14 hours after someone took offense to one of his drawings. His access was finally restored 14 hours later. From Robot 6: After 14 hours of hell, my Facebook account is working again with no explanation,“ the artist wrote. ”Every time I login, my [...]

Posted on: May 16, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, Comments: 4 Comments

Video: CNN talks to Trudeau about Alpha House, wounded warriors

CNN’s Jake Tapper has a sits down at the drawing table with ‘Doonesbury’ creator Garry Trudeau to talk about Doonesbury… and about supporting wounded warriors… and about his show Alpha House…

Posted on: May 16, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment

Autographed Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Team Cul de Sac up for grabs

So you couldn’t afford an original Bill Watterson oil painting of Cul de Sac character Petey, or any of the two original strips that went to auction earlier this year. But maybe you can afford to buy one of five autographed Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson or maybe even one of the five Watterson [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2013,  Section: Books, comic, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments

Mark Anderson on how to fail properly

Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has a nice summary of his presentation he gave back in February at the Success in Comics seminar. I must have done everything right, right? Not so much. When I take a good hard look at it, probably 95% of the things I’ve tried ended up failing. But the other 5% [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2013,  Section: Cartoons, comic, Comments: 6 Comments

Benson casts GOP in same vein as Ohio kidnappers; Conservatives not amused

Tim Cavanaugh, of The Daily Caller gives a good summary of the controversy surrounding a recent Steve Benson that casts the GOP in the same light as the Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. The cartoon (above) depicts the GOP has holding three women hostage. Each of the women are labeled “No Abortion Rights,” “No Reproductive Coverage” [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2013,  Section: Controversies, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments

Disney sexualized Merida character

Pixar’s Merida character from the feature film Brave is officially a Disney Princess, but that created a controversy when Disney debuted a 2D image of the new princess. The Disney princess makeover removed the bow and arrow, tamed her hair and slimmed her figure. She also sports a “come hither” look according to Brenda Chapman, [...]

Posted on: May 14, 2013,  Section: Animation, Controversies, Comments: 10 Comments

Magazine reworks Mike Peters anti-NRA cartoon to pro-NRA

The pro-gun news web site Ammoland did a bit of Photoshopping recently to recreate a Mike Peters anti-NRA editorial cartoon into one with the exact opposite message and posted it on Facebook. Here’s Mike’s original cartoon: And the blatant rework: Mike tells me this isn’t the first time someone has altered his work and to [...]

Posted on: May 14, 2013,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 18 Comments

The Cartoonist Studio launches blog

The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio have announced they have started a blog to go along with the other cool features. Each day one of the many syndicated pros will respond to a topic. While you’re over there, check out the studios and cartoon of the day.

Posted on: May 13, 2013,  Section: Cartoons, comic, Comments: 1 Comment