Last April, I told you that Scott Stantis, editorial cartoonist for The Birmingham News and creator of Prickly City was speaking at the 20th Media and Law Seminar. Audio of his speech has been posted on gocomics.com.
This year’s Cartoons and Cocktails will be hosted by Walt Handelsman, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner. The annual event is held at the National Press Clubs and features a silent and live auction whose proceeds then go to scholarships for needy high school students pursuing journalism, a student paper and the Cartoonists Rights Network.
For Veteran’s Week (Sept. 17-26), Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos, creators of the Baldo feature will feature a new character named Benny Ramirez who will retell his World War II experience. Some of the stories he’ll be sharing include discrimination in the military, and his boxing skills.
Last week I reported that Grant Woolard, a student cartoonist at the University of Virginia, had erupted another firestorm by drawing a cartoon depicting “nine nearly naked black men fighting each other with sticks, stools, boots and a pillow” and ran with a caption, “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The paper has printed a near 1000 word […]