Matt Bors wins SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award
Taking his second major prize for the year, Matt Bors has been honored with The Society of Professional Journalists’ 2011…
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Jeff Koterba featured in documentary on creativity and Tourette
Jeff Koterba, editorial cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald, is being featured in a documentary on creativity and Tourette Syndrome. In…
Jack Ohman wins Scripps Howard Award for editorial cartooning
I missed this one, but congratulations are in order to Jack Ohman of The Oregonian who was awarded this year’s…
Congrats to Guy and Renée
Remember when I reported that Guy Endore-Kaiser proposed to his girlfriend in his comic, Brevity?. The happy couple were married…
Mark Anderson asks why he’s a cartoonist
Andertoons creator Mark Anderson: I’m a cartoonist. I draw funny pictures with funny words that I send out into the…
Joel Pett remembers Rex Babin
Joel Pett writing in the Sacramento Bee: This past year, as he battled his mystifying, excruciating disease, he became one…
Howard Tayler nominated for Hugo Award
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary, has been nominated for two Hugo Awards one for “Best Graphic Story”…
Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship awarded to Sarah Miller
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has announced they’ve selected Sarah Miller as this year’s Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship winner….
Interviewed: Jonathan Mahood and National Robotics Week
I’ve mentioned it before that Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog is the official mascot for next week’s 3rd annual…
Public memorial planned for Rex Babin
A public memorial will be held to honor the Sacramento Bee’s late editorial cartoonist Rex Babin who passed away on…
Profiled: Mike Cope on fulfilling dream of becoming a cartoonist
The Hamilton Community News has profiled Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Mike Cope. “When I was a kid, I remember always…
Petition started to reinstate Texas cartoonist after Trayvon cartoon
Students at the University of Texas have started an online petition hoping to support the reinstatement of the campus paper’s…
Brad Guigar makes the leap to full-time webcomicker
Brad Guiger has announced on his blog that he is making the full-time leap in to his webcomic Evil Inc….
Trudeau, Herblock named in top 100 journalists list
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and legendary editorial cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”) were named by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute…
The math behind printing and distributing comic books
Mark Waid, a former Editor-In-Chief of BOOM! Studios, crunches the numbers to print and distribute your comic to comic book…