With the passing of Howie Schneider last week, his feature The Sunshine Club will be retired on September 1. From Mary Anne Grimes, Executive Director, Public Relations at United Media: The Sunshine Club came from Howie’s heart and soul – it was his vision. These were his ideas and he was passionate about them. We […]
The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon has selected Ellen Berg and Prudence Peiffer to receive their foundation’s fellows for 2007-2008. The foundation noted that there was an unusual number of strong candidates and the fellowship grant money of $15,000 was split to support the two students. Berg is a postdoctoral fellow […]
Dave Astor has written an excellent piece on some of the high, low, and funny points in the last 50 years of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. There also was that aforementioned 1988 encounter with former Zeppelin frontman Plant, who happened to be staying at the same Milwaukee hotel as AAEC conventioneers. Several cartoonists […]
San Diego cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom took home a few awards at this year’s San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquette this last week. Lucas was awarded 1st place in magazine illustration and honorable mention, 2nd and 1st place in the Original Drawing or Illustration category. Judges remarked his entries had a […]
The Register Guard in Eugene Oregon is now running Rich Steven’s Diesel Sweeties as their trial strip. According to the editor, Rhymes with Orange – the last trial comic didn’t get a more than a warm reception and so it’s unlikely that it will find a permanent place in their line up. The Hartford Courant […]
Richard Tennant, creator of The 5Th Wave, will celebrate 10 years in syndication this Friday.
This Thursday will mark Stuart Carlson’s 15th year as a syndicated editorial cartoonist. He’s been with the Milwaukee Sentinel since 1983.