Last March I told you about Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice’s new comic strip The Green House which they are launching on Earth Day (this Sunday). The strip is going the route of self-syndication. Greener living is the long-term goal of Gilchrist and Menice, who are marketing their comics through Internet subscriptions and through self-syndication […]
Doug Marlette recently spoke at the Virginia Commonwealth University on the topic of editorial cartooning. From the article: An example of one of his most influential cartoons was one from 1986 that featured a crying eagle looking up at the dark sky, in response to that year’s NASA space shuttle explosion. The cartoonist said he […]
Greg Evans, who does the Luann comic, will be on hand this Saturday to draw sketches of from his comic for those who are donating blood during a blood drive at Valley Blood Services – something he’s done for 20 years now. Also on hand will be Doreen Dotson, the creator of Outskirtz. Greg is […]
State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist. As the designated winner, he’ll receive a free trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Washington D.C. First Runner-up for the award was Sam Ayres, of Yale University, and […]
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning – his second such prize (the first was with the Times-Picayune in 1997). The Pulitzer committee said Handelsman’s was worthy of the high prize because of “his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation.” This seemed to […]