The seemingly unrelated stories of Michael Ramirez being let go from the LA Times and KAL taking a buyout at the Sun are connected. According to Yahoo News and The Chicago Tribune, Tribune Co is slashing jobs across most of its papers. This is probably even connected to why Jeff MacNelly’s position at the Chicago […]
From E&P: While the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ latest FAS-FAX numbers showed a 2.6% decline in daily paid circulation for U.S. newspapers, Nielsen//NetRatings reports that newspaper Web sites grew 11% year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, comprising 26% of the active U.S. Internet population. Not good. Unless your name is Mike Fiore.
State News editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey had citizens protesting outside the newspaper offices over a cartoon about U.S. torture camps. The cartoon, by State News cartoonist Mike Ramsey, featured a World War II veteran saying “I liberated a torture camp back in ’45” to a current soldier. The soldier, shown holding a bloody baseball bat […]
I posted earlier regarding the Sun’s buyout offer, but was unable to find any reports whether KAL’s position was in jeapardy. E&P reports that KAL is considering taking the buyout. The Tribune Co. has asked The Sun to once again seek staff buyouts in various departments. “I have been offered a buyout like everyone else […]
A story in E&P is reporting that a libel suit against “Get Fuzzy” cartoonist Darby Conley has reached settlement. From E&P: Bob Lobel filed the libel suit this spring after the May 13 “Get Fuzzy” strip — by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Darby Conley — showed Satchel the dog watching Lobel on TV and asking: “Is this […]
While this blog’s focus is on professional cartoonists, I ran across a posting on the toontalk bulletin board. Lee Nordling, author of Your Career in the Comics will be directing a four day seminar for unsyndicated cartoonists to help them take their creation to a syndicated level. My goal with this seminar is to work […]
A day long cartooning class will be offered in Hingham Massachusetts by John Zaccone. Zaccone will touch upon the three major cartoon formats ? the political cartoon, the single panel cartoon, and the comic strip. But in a certain significant sense, he won?t do it alone. As students explore the process of creating a professional […]
The Park Record (Park City Utah) has announced two book signings with editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley (Salt Lake Tribune). His new book is titled “Curious George goes to war”. Bagley’s book follows George, a monkey and the President, who, at the urging of The Man, his overseer, launches a war against Saddam Hussein. Pat’s book […]
While I think Michael Ramirez and David Simpson are having a bad week, at least they don’t have to worry about being physically attacked. Nov 14, Colombo: Police suspect members of the JVP in the attack on well-known cartoonist Dasa Hapuwalana. Hapuwalana, a cartoonist who works for the Sinhala daily Lankadeepa, was attacked in his […]
E&P has a story about the problems some papers had pulling an out of date Doonesbury strip about the former Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Previously, Universal Press Syndicate pulled Garry Trudeau’s daily strips about Miers that were scheduled to run the week of Oct. 31 (E&P Online, Oct. 27). That sequence — which humorously […]
Silicon Valley Watcher has a story about a question about what happens if new media (Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, Ebay) kills off old media before a stable business model has blossomed. It is Silicon Valley’s top companies, such as Google, Yahoo and Ebay, that are devastating the old media business models. But the new media business […]
A few stories across the U.S. on newspapers cutting staff to keep competitive (read: maintain profit margins). San Jose Mercury News Avoids Layoffs As It Cuts 52 Newsroom Jobs The Sun to Offer Buyouts to 75 Employees Methinks this might not be the best time to send in a resume and portfolio at these papers.
Editorialcartoonists.com has posted the deadlines and links to all the major editorial cartooning awards. Best of luck.
Editorial cartoonist, Dave Grunland, is publishing a collection of his cartoons that he’s drawn for the Metro West Daily News for the last 3 decades. For the first time, Granlund’s work has been collected in a full-length book that features 300 black-and-white cartoons and 32 pages of color cartoons. “Dave Granlund, Editorial Cartoonist: Pulling It […]
The Hartford Curant has a Q&A session with Garry Trudeau. He and his wife, Jane Pauley, are the honorary chairmen of the Annual Fall Gala of the Mark Twain House and Museum. Trudeau spoke about his strip – which debuted in 1970, won the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975, appears in about […]