Medium has posted an article on the issue of touchy political and religious issue of blasphemy in Egyptian cartooning. Blasphemy is a punishable offense in Egypt. According to the penal code, “Any use of religion to promote or advocate extremist ideologies… with a view toward stirring up sedition, disparaging or showing contempt” toward one of […]
Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler’s first collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons (I Thought You Would Be Funnier) won an Eisner award. He’s releasing a second collection called, “I Don?t Get It” through Boom! You?ve got to be pretty funny when your rejected cartoons win an Eisner, but that?s what happened to Shannon […]
As you know, The Daily Cartoonist operates much like NPR – it’s always there, always free and runs an infrequent annual guilt-trip induced fund-raiser to help cover costs of running the blog. I’m gearing up for a big “Fund The Daily Cartoonist for 2014” campaign set to launch next week. Because I don’t produce a […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones, who was laid off from the Freelance-Star in 2012 due to budget cuts, is set to return to his former paper this Sunday as a freelance cartoonist. Clay will be contributing a weekly local cartoon to the Sunday edition and a cartoon on the topic of his choosing for the online […]
This is the second comic strip creator turned movie director story in the last week. This time, Michael Fry, co-creator of Over the Hedge (with T Lewis), is raising funds via Kickstarter to direct a live-action/animated short called New Soul. The short is about “a new human soul, before it’s born, sitting for an exit […]