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Matt Wuerker reviews Pat Oliphant exhibit
Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker has written a review of Pat Oliphant’s traveling exhibit entitled “Leadership: Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture From the Bush Years.”
When you walk into the exhibit, you’re first struck by two giant charcoal caricatures, one of the late President Ronald Reagan as a cowboy and the other of former President George [...]
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 0 Comments
Serge Chapleau wins 6th National Newspaper Award
Serge Chapleau, editorial cartoonist for the La Presse, has been awarded his sixth National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning. You can see his work at his paper’s web site.
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Eric Devericks posts first animation
Eric Devericks, editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Times, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. His premiere animation features Hillary Clinton as the Black Knight of Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie.
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Islamic group: MacKinnon cartoon is hate crime
A Nova Scotia Islamic group is claiming that an editorial cartoon by Chronicle Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon is a hate crime. The cartoon that was published on April 18 depicts a woman in a burka holding a sign that reads, “I want millions” while saying, “I can put it towards my husband’s next training camp.” [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
News Briefs for May 6, 2008
» Check out Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano’s video that he has written and produced under his Medium Large feature. And don’t forget to check out some of his comics over at medium-large.com
» Dan Piraro is doing another stand up comedy show in Santa Cruz.
» Mike Rhode has a photo of a statue of a [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, video, Comments: 1 Comment
Thomas Nast exhibit opens in Auburn NY
An exhibit entitled “Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast Pictures Black America” is now open in Auburn N.Y. according to E&P. The show explores life for many African-Americans after the Civil War as seen through the eyes of Thomas Nast, the father of modern editorial cartooning.
Pardon / Franchise, wood engravings, August, 1865, Harper’s Weekly post-Civil [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 0 Comments
Herblock’s Presidents exhibit available online
Those not in the D.C. area can still see “Herblock’s Presidents: “Puncturing Pomposity,” an exhibit currently showing at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery online. The exhibit displays Herblock’s editorial cartoons featuring presidents Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton.
Visit the exhibit online.
Hat tip: Dirk Deppey
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 0 Comments
Bruce MacKinnon wins Atlantic Journalism Award
Bruce Mackinnon, editorial cartoonist for the The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, NS, has been honored with this year’s Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. The AJA recognizes journalistic excellence and achievement in print and electronic news media in Atlantic Canada. Finalists for the award include Michael de Adder of the The Daily News (Halifax, NS) [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
WSJ’s Pepper…and Salt off editorial page
For 58 years the Wall Street Journal has featured a gag cartoon under the title of Pepper…and Salt - most of the time running on the editorial page. As of April 22, the cartoon was moved to the Arts and Leisure page and reduced in size. The move might actually be a good thing. The [...]
Posted on: May 5, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Joe Heller begins animated editorial cartoons
Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. The animation pokes fun at Hillary Clinton singing a parody of “Stayin’ Alive.” The animation is plugged on the paper’s homepage.
Regarding the move to animation, the paper has posted an interview about his work:
Q. How does producing an animated cartoon compare with [...]
Posted on: May 5, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Paul Combs ends TMS contract
Paul Combs, the former former Tampa Tribune editorial cartoonists, has ended his contract with Tribune Media Services. Paul has accepted a full-time position as a magazine illustrator. His last cartoon will be Friday May 2nd.
Regarding Paul’s decision, Mary Elson, Managing Editor at TMS said, “Paul has some good opportunities, and we wish him the very [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
News Briefs for April 29, 2008
» The San Antonio Express-News interviews John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee about his comic and has posted that interview as an MP3.
» E&P notes that Somewhat Country, a local Sunday comic that has run in the Colorado’s Summit Daily News for the last 10 years is ending. The cartoonist Scott [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
KAL speaks to National Archives
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be speaking at the National Archives in May regarding the evolution of political cartoons from two-dimensional print to 3-D animation. The lecture is entitled, “Moving Political Cartoons from Page to Screen” and will be on May 8th.
On a related note, KAL has created his own video channel over on YouTube [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Clay Bennett wins 2007 Thomas Nast Award
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won this year’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs from the Overseas Press Club of America. The award was given for a portfolio of work while he was at The Christian Science Monitor.
The judges noted, “his cartoons do what all great cartoons do: [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Rex Babin doing animated editorial cartoons
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin has been doing animated editorial cartoons for his paper’s web site for about a year now, but as the public editor admits, “the paper has done a poor job of telling readers the animated cartoons even exist, let alone guiding them to the animations.” In all there are 10 [...]
Posted on: Apr 28, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
