Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo returns to temporarily take over Hilary Price’s Rhymes With Orange. From Rina’s blog: As some of you may remember, I?ve had a few stints as a guest on RWO over the years. What can I say ? Hilary is one of my ultimate favorite gag cartoonists, and in my opinion […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issues the following statement supporting editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) stands in support with Ann Telnaes and her right to call out presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for politicizing his daughters in a campaign attack ad. While it would be in bad […]
Yesterday was a social (and main stream) media slug fest on editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after the Washington Post pulled a cartoon of hers calling out presidential candidate Ted Cruz for using his daughters as props in a political commercial. The main accusation (which ranged from racist to child abuser) was that it was unfair […]
The Washington Post has made an unusual move of pulling a cartoon by their Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after criticism that the cartoon depictedpresidential candidate Ted Cruz’s children (see cartoon above) as organ grinder’s monkeys. Cruz featured his kids in a campaign commercial (see below) where he read parody book titles such […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Here’s a spoiler-free review from Lucas Turnbloom and me about “Star Wars, The Force Awakens.” Enjoy!
To my readers, may you enjoy whatever holiday you observe this time of year.
The late Rex Babin, editorial cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee, was honored with the Mark Twain Award for Journalistic Excellence by the California Press Foundation. His family received the award on his behalf. From the Sacramento Bee Babin, 49, died in March 2012 after a 15-month struggle with cancer. The annual award honors writers and […]
Exciting news from Kenosha Festival of Cartooning founder and Director Anne Morse Hambrock. Next year’s line up will include: Ann Telnaes, Jen Sorensen, Wiley Miller, John Hambrock, Rob Harrell and Eddie Pittman. This is a great line-up. The festival will run September 15-17.
Terry LaBan has announced that his strip, Edge City, that he co-created with his wife Patty will be retired this month after a 15-year run. Along with citing the grind of churning out a strip day after day as part of the rationale, Terry also cites that comics no longer hold a position of relevance […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Bill Morrison, whose artistic resume would take up several blog posts by itself, joins me to talk about his amazing career and the path it has taken. From working in […]
I know I’ve mentioned the documentary “Very Semi-Serious” here before. It will air next Monday on HBO. I was kindly offered a sneak peak last night (which was also the night of the screening in New York City with the New Yorker cast of cartoonists – wouldn’t that have been fun to attend). A few […]
A big congratulations to a well deserving editorial cartoonist, Rob Rogers of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, for being awarded this year’s Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. From the Post-Gazette: The winning portfolio included cartoons about police facing cellphone video cameras, the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris, the campaign between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders for […]
Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin has come out opposed to resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state. In response Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett ran a cartoon depicting Bevin as scared of his own adopted children from Ethiopia. Bevin stated the following in response: ?They say a picture is worth a thousand words,? Bevin said […]