David G. Brown is an award-winning artist, who’s editorial cartoons have been featured in the [L.A.] Sentinel for the last 20 years. A gifted designer, photographer and illustrator, David’s work and merits are impressive. Brian W. Carter at the L. A. Sentinel profiles and interviews political cartoonist David G. Brown. LAS: What do you like […]
Two weeks ago we discovered The Cartoon Factory Ltd. a small syndicate servicing weekly and bi-weekly newspapers that distributed comic strips and panels from July 5, 1981 to March 28, 1982. The full roster of The Cartoon Factory could be run on one page. The cartoonists and comic titles remained the same throughout the syndicates […]
For centuries, their wit and political barbs have made Britain’s cartoonists the toast of the democratic world. But yesterday an exhibition of their work called Licence To Offend was censored… in case anyone was offended. ‘I was told they found the work too offensive! Apparently they have to deal with councils across the country and […]
From the National Cartoonists Society (NCS): Join us in Boston for the National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Conference and Reuben Awards! Open to both NCS members and non-members [emphasis added], we’re excited to welcome fellow cartooning professionals for three days of connection, inspiration, and celebration. Enjoy a rich lineup of professional development programming, join us […]
Barbara Brandon-Croft made history as the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist to break into mainstream press with her groundbreaking comic strip “Where I’m Coming From,” which debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989. By 1991, Universal Press Syndicate was distributing her work to more than sixty mainstream newspapers internationally, where it continued until 2005. […]
With the death of Pope Francis so also comes the end (apparently) of Patrick J. Marrin’s Francis comic, though nothing official has been announce as far as I know. The Lambiek Comiclopedia entry for Pat Marrin has a detailed history of the Francis comic strip: On 13 March 2013, the Argentinean Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio […]
The recent PBS “Art in Action” segment, “Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape,” featuring Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, and Sara Duke came into righteous indignation from the conservative media with the eight minute report featuring a few seconds (at around the 5:38 mark) of Ann Telnaes’ February 13, 2025 political cartoon commenting on […]
A roundup of cartoon and comic items finally being posted featuring Harry Bliss and You Can Never Die, Paul Kirchner and the bus, Jeff Kinney and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the disassembly of Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, the editorial cartoons of The Simi Valley Acorn that are not editorial cartoons, and Heritage Auction is […]
Comic book artist and creator Jack Katz has passed away. Jacob (Jack) Katz September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025 Andrew Kunka, close associate of Jack Katz, let fandom know that the creator has passed away: Jack Katz passed away yesterday. He was 97. I had gotten to know Jack after I wrote an article […]
Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]
The National Newspaper Awards has named Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Globe and Mail winner of the 2024 Editorial Cartooning division. Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun were finalists as reported last month. This will be updated when the National Newspaper […]
News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon. Doug MacGregor Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. […]
The New England Newspaper & Press Association’s [NENPA] Better Newspaper Competition is New England’s largest journalism recognition program. NENPA has announced their Better Newspaper Competition winners for 2024. In the Editorial Cartoon division they have awarded the honors to Hakan Sahin of the Harvard Press 1st Place; Tim Newcomb of Seven Days 2nd Place, and […]
Independent Bookstore Day is held on the last Saturday of April every year. So naturally the 900-pound gorilla of book sales decides to have that and surrounding days as the weekend of their Spring sales event – doing what they can to ruin any effort by the small independents to survive. For anyone out and […]
Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025 From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San […]