An exhibit in Seattle is opening featuring the work of a small group of cartoonists who are pushing for the legitimacy of comic art. Cartoon artists have a long, proud history of pushing people’s buttons. Gary Larson once baffled and infuriated readers with a Far Side panel depicting odd objects in a field captioned “Cow […]
Philadelphia’s police commissioner publically took issue with a recent cartoon by the Daily News editorial cartoonist, Signe Wilkinson. In the cartoon depicts “a Ku Klux Klan travel agent touting Philadelphia as a place with ‘great views of young black men killing each other.’” “I take it as a personal insult,” Johnson said. “Not just as […]
The United Nations Correspondents Association will announce the winners of its 2005 UNCA Awards tonight at their annual Dinner and Dance. Of interest to editorial cartoonists is the Ranan Lurie Award for political cartooning ($10k to the winner). The UNCA Awards were established in 1995 to encourage in depth coverage of the United Nations and […]
As reported earlier, Jim Davis will be signing Garfield art at Hallmark Galleries today and tomorrow. From E&P: NEW YORK “Garfield” creator Jim Davis is scheduled to appear this Friday and Saturday at the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla, Calif. The Indiana-based cartoonist will sign “Garfield” art that people purchase. Currently on display at the […]
Congrats to Larry Wright for 25 years producing the Kit ‘N’ Carlyle’ strip. From E&P: NEW YORK “Kit ‘N’ Carlyle,” which stars a woman and her cat, turned 25 on Thursday. The Newspaper Enterprise Association comic is by Larry Wright, who’s also an editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News and a former president of the […]
The Tribune Co. is cutting more staff – this time at their flagship paper the Chicago Tribune. “A net of 28 positions related to this work is being eliminated by the end of the year,” Lipinksi wrote. “Our colleagues leaving the company will be offered separation pay, benefits and outplacement services. Some may wish to […]
Orlando Sentinel has announced that it is laying off 21 of its employees. Dana Summers, their staff editorial cartoonist, will not be one of them. From an email Dana writes: I’m not affected. I try to do as many local cartoons as possible to make myself valuable to the paper. I do 4 for TMS […]
In a story that is only peripherally about Scott Adams, his standing as guru of business management has jumped from 27th to 12 place. Business gurudom is a man’s world, with only four women in the top 50. Insead’s Professor Renée Mauborgne is the highest placed at 15, followed by Harvard’s Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter […]
The Cartoon Bank is getting into the holiday spirit by offering customizable gifts. All of the new products, which allow corporate gift-givers to expose their “lighter side,” are completely customized with cartoons selected by the company and also feature the company’s branding. The offering includes: A page-a-day calendar with 365 custom-selected New Yorker cartoons A […]
Chip Bok, editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal, will be in D.C for a book signing. His new book, “A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok, was published earlier this year and can be had at Amazon.com. From his blog: If you’re near the University Club at 1135 […]
Ballantine Books is publishing a hardcover collection of Peanuts without any dialogue. “It Goes Without Saying: ‘Peanuts’ at Its Silent Best” is by the late Charles Schulz, with a foreword by his widow, Jean Schulz. Link: E&P
Via E&P: Scott Stantis’ strip Prickly City will be taking a jab at the recent rounds of layoffs in the newspaper industry. In the strip, Carmen the conservative girl mentions to Winslow the liberal coyote pup that there has been “another round of layoffs in the newspaper biz.” Winslow replies: “If the newspapers are in […]
Last Sunday’s Doonesbury used quotes by President Bush back in 1967 while the young Bush was a senior at Yale regarding frat hazing (branding students with a coat hanger). Trudeau tries to tie President Bush’s current stance on torture to his hazing days. The branding, which was exposed by the Yale paper, was first covered […]
The Courier News has announced that it will begin running Stephan Pastis’ strip Pearls Before Swine starting Monday. An unusual rat and pig take center stage in Pearls Before Swine, a daily and Sunday comic strip from United Feature Syndicate that will be featured in The Courier News starting Monday. Technorati Tags: Comic strips
Chris Lamb, author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons”, has written an article in Editor and Publisher that criticizes the Tribune Company for laying off its cartoonists and how that affects journalism. The Tribune Company, the Chicago-based media corporation, continues to do its part to gut journalism as a vital […]