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Video: Herblock interview from 1975
Via: Mike Rhode
Posted on: May 16, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Profiled: Matt Bors as your not-so-average cartoonist
Glenn Fleishman writes about the uptick in recognition for Matt Bors who was honored this year as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Herblock Award winner and the SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award. He’s scruffy, doesn’t own a suit, and lives in Portland. He expresses withering contempt at politicians, mainstream media, and what he views as hypocrisy. [...]
Posted on: May 16, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Iranian cartoonist spared 25 lashes after MP withdraws complaint
Guardian reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan, who has provided the most details on the Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes for depicting a local Prime Minister in a soccer jersey, is now reporting that the sentence against cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye will most likely be quashed after the MP withdrew his complaint after international outcry. From the [...]
Posted on: May 14, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Sneak peek at original watercolor art for Matt Davies first picture book
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Matt Davies is taking a new set of critics – children. He has a picture book due out next spring entitled Ben Rides On. The book is about a boy and his love for his bike, but when a bully takes it away the boy must find a way to [...]
Posted on: May 14, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Joel Pett threatened over basketball cartoon
Last week I posted news that an editorial cartoon by Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett enraged University of Kentucky for criticizing coach John Calipari for ending UK’s annual series with Indiana. Joel describes returning from Washington DC where he helped the Cartoonists Rights Network committee to select a worthy Courage in Cartooning Award for a [...]
Posted on: May 14, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Charlie Daniel to be honored for political humor
Knoxville News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel, will be honored next week at a luncheon hosted the by Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy for his “long and illustrious career.” The event is being sponsored by Senator Baker and his wife, Senator Nancy Kassebaum.
Posted on: May 11, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
CRNI awards Courage in Editorial Cartooning to Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi
Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has announced they are awarding their 2012 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award to Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, from India. CNRI is dedicated to defending the human rights of cartoonists who are threatened due to their work. Ali gained international notoriety after Syrian government thugs tried to silence [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Update on the Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashings
Yesterday I posted news that Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye had been sentenced to 25 lashings for depicting a local official in a football (soccer to us Yankees) jersey. Information about the case has been limited, but The Guardian has picked up the story and provides a bit more context and detail. Doesn’t change much, though. [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Joel Pett hacks off Kentucky Fans
From The Quad blog at The New York Times: “You can draw all the cartoons you want about things like the global plight of women and it’s this kind of thing that gets people going,” Pett said in a telephone interview Tuesday. To the Kentucky faithful, Pett is raining on their championship parade by criticizing [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Stephanie McMillan wins RFK award
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green. Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
The Cartoonists Studio to launch new politically themed competition
On the heels of their second annual “So You Want to Be a Cartoonist” contest earlier this spring, The Cartoonists Studio will launch two politically themed contests in June and August with winners of both contests announced the day before this year’s presidential election. More details will be posted at a later date, but here’s [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Contests, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 9 Comments
AAEC Convention dates set for September 13-15
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year on September 13–15. This year’s convention will follow a somewhat different format than in the past. Thursday and Friday will center on “#!&% CARTOONS: A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon.” The festival will feature “chalk talk” presentations by various [...]
Posted on: Apr 26, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Swiss cartoonist wins Thomas Nast Award
The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws for the Geneva daily Le Temps and Zurich paper the NZZ am Sonntag. According to World Radio Switzerland, this is the first time a non-American has received the award.
Posted on: Apr 25, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Matt Wuerker fires back: Memes don’t deserve Pulitzers
Last week I linked to an article on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo who argued that the Pulitzer Prize should be opened up to other graphical commentary – such as memes, infographics, etc. mostly because he felt single panel editorial cartoons are, “an increasingly timeworn form. Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely [...]
Posted on: Apr 24, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 7 Comments
No more Pulitzers for cartooning, give it to memes
Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award should go to really good political infographics. The backwardness of political cartoons is especially evident when you compare them to the bounty of new forms of graphical political commentary on the Web. My Facebook and [...]
Posted on: Apr 19, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 14 Comments
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