Posted on: October 3, 2006

Exhibit of KAL at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (which I’ve talked about earlier).

For more information, including links to these events, visit the AAEC site.

Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will be the featured speaker for the University of Kentucky Libararies’ Special Collection and Digital Programs Archives Week.  Archives Week (running the week of Oct. 9) is a celebration of 50 years of archiving Kentucky’s newspapers in their library.

Joel is expected to talk about his career and influences.

I read with interest the story posted last week regarding Doonesbury.com adding a blog to its site featuring entries from soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and then another story linked from Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter about Garry’s decision to use his B.D. character as a way of highlighting the sacrifices soldiers are making overseas and it occurs to me that perhaps today, Garry Trudeau is our generation’s Bill Mauldin.

Chad Lowe has taken first place in editorial cartooning in the 2006 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism contest for the 90,000+ circulation category.  The awards will be presented to the winners on Oct. 21 in West Palm Beach.

I want to take a moment to thank Aaron Taylor for once again assuming the reins of the Daily Cartoonist to make sure news was posted everyday while I was away on vacation. I knew before I left that there would be some big announcements (like Boondocks not returning), and I equally knew that Aaron would catch it all and get it posted.

Thank you, again, Aaron.