Posted on: April 25, 2006

As if the Pulitzer and SPJ award was not enough – Mike Luckovich has won the Overseas Press Club award for editorial cartooning.  The prize was given to two cartoonists this year.

Last Thursday I broke the story that The Tampa Tribune was hiring a new editorial cartoonist….  Daryl Cagle picks up the story and explains that Paul Combs is leaving the paper.

The serious issues Bennett deals with, and the thoughtfulness with which he treats them, are in direct contrast to the way he begins his work: When he’s thinking about ideas for cartoons, he doodles. His desk and the floor of his office are littered with dozens of pieces of paper covered with doodles.”It sounds so mindless, and editorial cartooning is so mindful,” he says, but “I doodle all the time.”Clay has been with the Science Christian Monitor since 1998.

They didn’t post many requirements if any – which means if Mike Luckovich hasn’t satisfied with the Pulitzer, and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award – he can enter too.We are celebrating Jim Borgman?s 30th anniversary this year as the Enquirer?s editorial cartoonist and want your help…. We will publish your cartoon and Jim?s in print and online.E-mail your entry by filling out the following form, or send your cartoon via ‘snail mail’ to: Borgman Challenge, Life section, 312 Elm St., Cincinnati 45202.

The Detroit News has made some changes to their features section.  Part of the change involved adding Pooch Cafe to the line up.

His characters have dealt with AIDS, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, college students, gun control and other issues.Trudeau has remained current.  Recent themes have included the problems of wounded veterans returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — not the sort of thing you’d find in Family Circus.Almost from the first, some have argued that Doonesbury belongs on the editorial page, not in the comics.

The Dallas Morning News has an interesting story about how Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman got together to create their hit feature “Zits.”Sketches in hand, he ran into Jim Borgman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from Cincinnati, at a conference….  Drawing.”Then the conference broke up and everybody went home.”But every once in a while, the fax would bleep,” Mr. Borgman says.

News columnist Mike Peters (not the Grimmy Mike Peters) interviewed the Brevity duo and filed a quick six question story.  Questions include: What made you do a comic strip?How do you describe Brevity?How does your collaboration work?How does creating the comic strip compare with your day job?Can we believe anything on your Comics.com bio page ? where, for instance, Guy claims to be a member of the 1987 Olympic team?What’s new?On the last question, Guy reveals that there will be a new Brevity book coming out later this year.

Lewis’ “Over the Hedge” movie is starting to create some buzz as it gets closer to it’s May 19 nation-wide opening.  Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation CEO had this nice thing to say about the movie:”That was the genius of the strip.

Chad Carpenter’s “Tundra” has beaten out Bound and Gagged at the Standard Examiner (Ogden UT).  The editor reported that in the two week trial run and ongoing poll – 80% of the readers polled preferred Tundra over Bound and Gagged.

From Jim Borgman’s blog comes news that he’s been named as a finalist in this year’s EPpy Award given out by Editor and Publisher. The EPpy’s honor internet sites that are affiliated with the media industry. Jim was nominated for the Best Media-Affiliated News Blog and goes up against DayWatch (jsonline.com) and Crime Scene on […]

Jon Heder by Randy Glass. Used by permission. This is slightly off topic, but easily justifiable as it is artwork that appears in the newspaper. Randy Glass, one of the illustrators at the Wall Street Journal, does that amazing stipple art portraits was mentioned yesterday on the Drawn! blog. I’ve been so impressed with stipple […]

Sad news is being reported by Mike Lynch that Richard Rockwell, who worked on the Steve Canyon feature for 35 years, passed away Tuesday. Longtime NCS member Richard Rockwell passed away on Tuesday the 18th of April. He was 85 years old. Richard’s career included penciling, as well as inking, Milton Caniff’s long running Steve […]

The Tampa Tribune has posted a advertisement in journalismjobs.com for an editorial cartoonist. The Tribune is home to Paul Combs. Description: The Tampa Tribune is seeking an Editorial Cartoonist to create political cartoons for our editorial and opinion pages. The editorial cartoonist researches issues, interviews newsmakers, conceives ideas, creates cartoons and is largely self-directed. The […]

An inside source at Universal Press Syndicate has alerted me that Lee Salem has been promoted to President of the syndicate. Lee has been the Executive Vice President and Editor for several years now. Robert Duffy the current/outgoing president is retiring. The official switch will become effective early this summer. Congratulations to Lee! Details will […]