Ted Rall, who aspires to sue Ann Coulter for libel/slander has raised nearly $11,000, but still is well short of the money required to take the case all the way to the finish. Pledges currently total nearly $11,000. That’s seriously encouraging but we’re still short of what’s needed to launch a successful libel and slander […]
Scott Bateman, former King Features political cartoonist, writes in to announce that he’s on say that he’s on day 190 (okay, technically, yesterday was 190 – today is 191) of his project to produce an animated cartoon every day for a year. His latest cartoon features a score board of sorts counting the number of […]
Prickly City cartoonist Scott Stantis has a op-ed piece with his take on the Mohammad cartoon controversy. Newspapers with a long and storied history of cartoonists have seen fit to cut loose this valuable resource. Papers like the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun are now without a staff cartoonist. The Chicago Tribune recently dedicated […]
I sometimes wonder about the effectiveness of cartoons that are “insider-ish.” Yesterday’s Natural Selection, by Russ Wallace, depicting a political cartoonist entering the witness protection program, was funny and topical, but how did it square with the rest of the newspaper reading public?
The Newseum is sponsoring a discussion on how publications should cover the cartoon controversy. The panel includes Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News. How did the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad come to spark violent Islamic protests? Where should we draw the line between free speech and religious tolerance? What issues does […]
The government of Malaysia may revoke The New Straits Times’ permit to print after it ran a Non-Sequitur cartoon. Wiley Miller’s February 20th’s Non Sequitur depicts an artist with a sign saying “Caricatures of Muhammad while you wait.” The New Straits Times got a show-cause letter from the Internal Security Ministry and was given three […]
The Anti-Semitic cartoon contest has opened the gallery of entries. While the deadline for entry is not until March 5th, early entrant’s work are being posted. You can read more about this contest in one of my earlier posts.
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. It’s unknown whether this will be a regular thing. Perhaps Walt will be taking Mark Fiore on as the king of animated editorial cartoons?
Two book announcements have been made. The first is a hardbound book called “I Love My Grandpa” by “For Better Or For Worse” Lynn Johnston. It will be released March 1. The second is a book called “Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro” and will feature cartoons from Dan Piraro’s […]
From E&P: An exhibit called “No Straight Lines: Queer Culture and the Comics” will be held March 18 through June 25 at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco. The show features the work of 20 cartoonists — including Alison Bechdel, who self-syndicates the “Dykes to Watch Out For” strip; and Paige Braddock, whose “Jane’s […]
From Daryl Cagle’s “blog” (scroll down to 2nd story in Feb 18th posting): A knowledgeable source tells me that the Village Voice, the New York alternative tabloid with a great tradition of editorial cartoonists going back for decades – including Jules Feiffer and Ed Sorel – will stop running editorial cartoons, and any future cartoons […]
The Scott County Heritage Center and Museum in Scottsburg Indiana is hosting an exhibit of cartoons from cartoonists, like Jim Davis, who call Indiana their home. In addition to Davis, a native of Muncie, the exhibit showcases cartoonists such as Allen Saunders, a Boone County native and Wabash College alumnus who revamped “Mary Worth”; and […]
Chris Lamb, the author of the book Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons, has a great editorial in the Rhode Island Providence Journal about the power of editorial cartoons. According to him, violent reactions to cartoons have also occured on American soil. This is not the first time an editorial cartoonist […]
As posted on Ted’s blog, he will be at the upcoming NY Comic Con and will be available to sign and sell books. New Yorkers attending next week’s New York Comic Con should bring their Ted Rall books for me to sign. I’ll be at the NBM Publishing table 6-8 pm Friday and 3-5 Saturday?Sunday […]
From the Atlanta Journal-Consitution comes this story how the comics have been on the front end of controversy before. Comic strips cited in this story include: Blondie, For Better Or For Worse, Beetle Bailey, Little Orphan Annie, Pogo, and Popeye. Comic strips, often whimsical and boiling with schmaltz, have been the province of pointed commentary, […]