Dick Wright, syndicated editorial cartoonist, will be retiring from cartooning to concentrate on pastoring a church he helped found six years ago. “I have found my heart is with the pastoring at this point,” he added. “I’m really excited about helping people. I enjoyed cartooning immensely, but I think I’ll enjoy this more.” Link: E&P
The Sun Sentinel is reporting that “Rob Cabrera, cartoonist of the nationally syndicated Silo Roberts comic strip that runs in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and several other newspapers, will feature the Heat guard in Sunday’s strip.” In the upcoming strip, Cabrera features Wade’s crossover dribble literally undressing an opponent. Wade’s eyes lit up when presented […]
Norman Rockwell (not THE Norman Rockwell, painter for the Saturday Evening Post) will be publishing a book compiling his best 150 cartoons that have been published in magazines throughout the United States. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has posted a Q&A with Norm Keith Rockwell (yes he is related). Norman Rockwell painted famous slices of Americana […]
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 […]