This year’s Herblock Prize has been awarded to John Sherffius of the Camera of Boulder, Colorado. From the judges: “John’s work exemplifies the best the art of editorial cartooning has to offer. Through a potent combination of excellent drawing technique, striking original imagery, and passionate conviction, his cartoons kick you in the gut. They are […]
Sean Hoy will be releasing his fifth book, Out of the Cup, a collection of coffee cartoons soon. Sean is an editorial cartoonist, illustrator out of Arizona and produces topical cartoon collections for golfers, dog lovers, cowboy/westerners, and office dwellers. You can check out his stuff at Off Kilter Cartoons Lio, and Heart of the […]
Here are a few of the changes on the comic pages: Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse returns to the Sherman Denison Herald Democrat after it was dropped when the paper scaled down to a single page of comics. Tony Murphy’s recently launched It’s All About You has been picked up by the Tampa […]
The alt-weekly and web comic darling, The Perry Bible Fellowship will come to an end according to its creator Nicholas Gurewitch. Nicholas cites, “I’ll be sending another PBF next Monday. After that, I’ll be discontinuing The PBF as a weekly strip.” By my calculation, PBF created just over 201 comics most of which have been […]
The Chicago Sun-Times is celebrating its 60th birthday and part of that celebration is republishing some of the best cartoons of its history by its staff cartoonists: Bill Mauldin, John Fischetti, Jacob Burck and current cartoonist Jack Higgins. Visit web site for slideshow and to read the full article.
Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne has responded to Jim Borgman’s “February Q’s?” in which he asked if the editorial cartooning profession was due for a make-over. Henry responds: I think you have missed two evolutions in cartooning. First, the Oliphant formula has not been the newspaper standard for some time. Cartoonists as varied as […]
Newsweek has an interesting article about a Mexican editorial cartoonist, Francisco “Paco” Calderon, who works for the Reforma newspaper and his struggle to influence Mexican policy in regard to its relationship with the United States. His contention is that Mexico has played the victim role far too long and that it should work to strengthen […]
In a rare development, the calendar rights to Scott Hilburn’s The Argyle Sweater have been snatched up by Borders even before the comic has entered into print syndication. Borders will sell The Argyle Sweater as one of its top 2009 calendar properties through all of its retail chains and mall kiosks nationwide.