Posted on: April 25, 2012

The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws for the Geneva daily Le Temps and Zurich paper the NZZ am Sonntag. According to World Radio Switzerland, this is the first time a non-American has received the award.

Starting tomorrow, I’m kicking off a game here on The Daily Cartoonist. I’m sure many of you have heard of the app Draw Something (free and paid versions of iPad/iPhone and Android devices). Think of it as Pictionary on your phone with a friend. According to one source it took AOL nine years to acquire […]

Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. […]