Marshall Ramsey is a blogger
Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, MS, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the development of his daily…
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Reader reaction to Steve Benson’s cartoon posted on Cagle
Daryl Cagle invited readers to email him with their opinions regarding Steve Benson’s Marine Corps cartoon. He received over 300 responses.We asked for it, and we got it – more than three hundred responses to the Benson cartoon below.
Mike Shelton begins animation shorts
Mike Shelton, editorial cartoonist for the Orange County Register, began creating short animations last May and has now created five of them. The animations are being done with co-worker Jocelyne Leger and the cartoons are also being distributed to other newspapers (as well as television) that belong to the same communication chain as the OC Register.Dave Astor has a much longer story detailing Mike’s work.
Cartoon blogs featured in latest Editor and Publisher mag
Dave Astor has a story (page 58) about the growing number of blogs that cover the cartooning industry. Highlighted in the story are Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter, The Daily Cartoonist, The Comics Curmudgeon’s Joshua Fruhlinger, and Daryl Cagle’s blog.
Universal Press redesigns web site, adds blog
According to their new blog (authored by Derek, Dir. of Web Operations) the site is the combination of Universal’s uComics.com and GoComics.com web sites. Aside from the obvious visual changes, the new site uses a Flash-based comic reader to thwart would be copyright violators.
Matt Davies joins blogosphere
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Matt Davies has joined the blogosphere according to Editor and Publisher…. From E&P:”My aim,” Davies wrote in his initial post, “is to pry the lid off the process and hardships that a newspaper editorial cartoonist encounters on deadline every day, and share it with whomever cares.”He added: “The best cartoonists should make it look easy.
Bob Staake: Most cartoonists can’t draw their way out of a paper bag
In summation, he accuses most cartoonists as failures and the reason why cartooning will never be considered a legitimate art form.The basic nobility of that cause innoculates (for the most part) cartooning against the accusations that it is a vocation filled with practitioners (98% male and white) who couldn’t draw their way out of a paper bag if their life (or their profession) counted on it.Imagine turning on the Olympics and seeing 78% of the figure skaters fall on their asses…. Individual cartoonists deserve respect, but just because they earn it doesn’t mean a positive residue should trickle down upon anyone who puts nib to paper, had a cartoon published in the Anchorage Antler and manages to squeeze into a tux for the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards.For cartoonists to believe that respect would be a given when the vast majority of them would fail to push any aesthetic envelope or embrace even a modicum of visual experimentation is as audacious as it is self-delusional.
Jim Borgman a finalist in EPpy Award
From Jim Borgman’s blog comes news that he’s been named as a finalist in this year’s EPpy Award given out…
New blog: The Cartoon Fiend
In another “check out this new blog” moment, may I direct your attention to Rod McKie’s The Cartoon Fiend where…
Chronicling the pausing for dramatic effect
I thought The Daily Cartoonist had carved out a small niche in the blogosphere, but last night I came across…