The 19th annual Rube Goldberg competition is set for this weekend. The competition pays homage to late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing extremely complex machines that performed very simple tasks. This year’s challenge is to build a mechanism that will individually cut or shred five sheets of 20-pound, 8-by-11-inch paper. About eight university […]
Jef Mallett, creator of “Frazz” will be speaking to participants of the Musselman Triathlon – which Jef will compete in the next day. The event happens on July 15th and 16th. Mallett is an avid age-group triathlete and often includes bike racing and triathlon as themes in his work. He will entertain athletes as the […]
The 12 newspapers that McClatchy plans to sell to finance the purchase of Knight Ridder are a bit closer to knowing who their next bosses may be. The LA Times reports that there are three potential bidders: Yucaipa Cos (a Los Angeles investment firm), MediaNews Group Inc, and Gannett Co. McClatchy Co.’s planned sale of […]
There is a possibility that the Boston Globe may cut additional staff jobs after its revenue dropped 12 percent last month. Last year the Globe let go of 130 of its staff. According to sources, he told department heads that no decisions have been made yet on whether there will be staff reductions. He specifically […]
If your a Chip Bok fan and live near Hudson Ohio, head over to the Learned Owl next Friday (April 7) around 6:00 pm to have your book signed. I’ll be signing books at the Learned Owl in Hudson, Ohio on Friday April 7 at 6:00pm.
I mentioned earlier that the St. Petersburg Times was going to try out four new features during the Boondock hiatus. They’ve now named names and here they are: Dog eat Doug (“We’re talking cute, but with a Calvin and Hobbesian twist to the jokes”), Watch your head (“You can like it or you can like […]
This is old news, but I’m just now getting to it. The 2005 National Newspaper Awards finalists have been announced for the best editorial cartoonist. The nominees are: Bruce MacKinnon of the Chronicle Herald; Serge Chapleau of the La Presse in Montreal and Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail. All three have been nominated […]
Baldo creators Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos have posted requests on their website asking for students to send in their responses to the nationwide student walk out over immigration that have been on the news of late. They hope to post some of those responses on their site and “maybe even in an upcoming comic!” […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is being honored by Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for international political commentary. Political cartoonist Garry Trudeau first launched the comic strip?Doonesbury? in 1970. It now appears in nearly 1400 daily and Sunday newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. His recent focus on injured veterans from the Iraq […]
Tomorrow night John Kovaleski, creator of “Bo Nanas” will be doing a book signing and answering questions on life as a syndicated cartoonist at the Gettysburg College-Musselman Library in Gettysburg PA. So…how do you do what you do?” is the question Bo Nanas creator John Kovaleski hears the most. He answers that question and many […]
Phil Hands of the Wisconsin State Journal has taken first place for editorial cartooning in the Milwaukee Press Clubs’ Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Contest. Joe Heller of the Green Bay Press-Gazette took second place.
E&P reports that finalists for the annual “The Week” awards have been announced. Those included for Editorial Cartoonist of the year are: Chip Bok, Akron Beacon Journal, Creators Syndicate; David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tribune Media Services; Steve Kelley, Times-Picayune, Creators Syndicate; Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creators Syndicate; Jack Ohman, The Oregonian, Tribune Media Services.
The Baraboo News Republic (WI) is replacing The Phantom with Jeff Stahler’s Moderately Confused. No reasons were cited. The one-panel comic strip “Moderately Confused” will replace “The Phantom” on our comics page. “Moderately Confused” is drawn by Jeff Stahler, editorial cartoonist for The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. “Moderately Confused” was a finalist for the National Cartoonists […]
There is a great piece in the Sacramento Bee about the challenges of being a professional cartoonist. It covers some of the cartoonists that took sabaticals or ended their feature early due to the relentless deadlines. Quoted in the article are Darby Conley who puts in 70 hours a week into his feature “Get Fuzzy“, […]
In an opinion piece that was reprinted in the San Jose Mercury News, Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman opines about how fairly Bush is being treated on the opinion page by editorial cartoonists from around the country. Have cartoonists and satirists harped on these issues to the point of being vicious? I suppose that depends […]