The University of Tennessee is celebrating 225 years by profiling alumni. A week ago the UT’s Daily Beacon newspaper ran a piece on Marshall Ramsey. Now Marshall reminisces about his college days for Torchbearer magazine. Ramsey has stayed close with his alma mater over the years, too. In 2009, he did a cartoon celebrating the […]
Pat Bagley and The Salt Lake Tribune are celebrating 40 years together. Artists of Utah joins in the celebration by posting a profile from earlier this year. On the flip side, the theory of the great cartoon keeps him motivated: “There is the Platonic ideal of a cartoon out there and if I could just […]
In today’s global political climate, which has been called a tumultuous time, the role of the political cartoonist has become muddled. At its very core, a political cartoonist is someone whose work plays a crucial role in the political discourse of a free society. Ann Telnaes, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and […]
The third annual Galway Cartoon Festival kicks off tomorrow. Cartoonists slated to attend include Martyn Turner, Maria “Twisted Doodles” Boyle and Joe Boske. From their site: The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of cartoons, hosted in Ireland’s cultural mecca on the Wild Atlantic Way. The festival includes main exhibitions, and live drawing sessions. The […]
I made the mistake of reading Facebook before I got started today, and it made Tom Toles’ cartoon strike home even more than it might otherwise have. I’ve long since learned that there is no benefit in starting the day by taking other people’s bad trips, and Facebook was awash in them. Some are fairly […]