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, […]

While this may have very little impact to readers of this site, I post it nonetheless on the grounds that it has nothing to do with the Mohammad cartoon contoversy. With that admission, here is the story. Enjoy. London’s first cartoon museum, with 3,000 books and 1,200 images, covers three centuries, from Georgian Rowlandson watercolours […]

Bill Day asked six other editorial cartoonists (Rex Babin, Chip Bok, Chris Britt, J.D. Crowe, Matt Davies, Steve Sack) to post their most controversial editorial cartoons and the reaction they received. You can see the cartoons and the reactions on the Commercial Appeal web site.

Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has written an editorial for the Chicago Tribune on his reaction of the Danish Mohammad cartoons. He also addresses the impact of the cartoons on American editorial cartoonists. Things have changed greatly since Mr. Nast’s day. We who work as cartoonists in the United States must always be […]

In what could be a very interesting discussion, Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak on the role and responsibilities of being an artist in today’s hyper-sensative world. Signe Wilkinson, political cartoonist at the Philadelphia Daily News, will discuss the role and the responsibilities of artists in today’s political […]

The New Standard has interviewed Mikhaela Reid on her take of the Mohammad cartoon controversy. Do Muslims have a right to be offended? Of course they do. You can’t draw something with the intention of offending and then be totally shocked when someone gets offended. There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests or boycotts, and […]

Mark Fiore’s animated editorial cartoons will be honored at a March 8 awards dinner to receive the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award. The Madison award is given to those who have fought for public access to government meetings and records and promoted the public?s right to know. Mark’s […]

The student newspaper of Victoria University has stepped into the Mohammad cartoon controversy – not by reprinting any of the Danish cartoons – but printing their own cartoon depicting Mohammad and Jesus kissing in a “Tunnel of Tolerance.” The cartoon runs next to the house editorial. The newspaper editor says they’ve broken now university rules […]

Scott Stantis’ feature “Prickly City” had strong Mohammad controversy undertones in yesterday’s strip. The strip featured one of its characters writing to the newspaper demanding that a cartoon be removed from the paper because it was offensive. The cartoon in question is “Marmaduke.” Update: In this posting’s comments Chippy Me Word points out that today’s […]

The play “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown”, based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters, will be on stage in Foxboro MA. Based on Charles Schulz’s “Charlie Brown” comic strips, this show, which helped make a star of Kristin Chenoweth when it was revised on Broadway in 1999, is bright, fun, and adorable. As […]