A Mobile County school board member is on trial for driving under the influence and his attorney has filed a motion to move the trial out of the county because: Briskman said there have been numerous “negative” stories, editorials and, in particular, editorial cartoons in the Mobile Register that “portrayed (Thomas) in a light that […]
The Hartford Courant has a great article on Eric Shansby, who at age 17 was asked to illustrate Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten’s Below the Beltway column. It’s been two years and Shansby is now at Yale and still working with Weingarten. Weingarten tells it differently.”After I talked to his high school journalism class, […]
The A.V. Club has a good interview with Boondocks creator, Aaron McGruder about taking his comic strip to the small screen. Some of the questions he answers go into the process of taking his strip into television, American politics and government and handling the public eye. AVC: Do you feel like the comic strip is […]
Time magazine has a good article on the two Los Angeles museums showing a large 900 piece exhibit on the history of American Comics that I reported on earlier. Says John Carlin, curator: When I started doing research, I felt this was a lost continent. Comics are one of the most important forms of artistic […]
AZ Daily Star Cartoonistist David Fitzsimmons will be speaking to the Arizona Association for Economic Development on December 20th. Registration is $20.
Scott Adams has posted on his blog that he is looking for help to complete a Dilbert strip. It’s 8 am, Saturday, Pacific Time, and I need help writing one line of Dilbert dialog. Dilbert is at a sales call explaining how his company’s product fits with the technology of the other company. I need […]
Today would mark the 83rd birthday for Charles Schulz. The Peanuts creator died in 2000.
The Tribune Company is getting criticized from within as Kathleen Parker of the Orlando Sentinel writes that as the parent company is trimming down the newsroom, so goes the soul of the newspaper. She also defends the value of an editorial cartoonist on the staff of a newspaper. If only they would listen. Parker, who […]
Debbie Ridpath Ohi has posted on her blog a review of the National Cartoonist’s Association’s Christmas party in Canada. All party attendees were encouraged to draw something; markers and a stack of paper were provided in a corner of the room. Very cool to see the cartoons accumulate on the wall above the bar (see […]
I’m not sure when this was originally published, but it was an entertaining read. Newsweek’s Educational Program interviewed Mike Luckovich, editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Donald Rumsfeld requested one of my cartoons. I’m not a big fan of Rumsfeld, but for some reason, that doesn’t bother him. He has several of my cartoons hanging […]
The Book Standard has interviewed Jules Feiffer about his book “
Current site status: At this writing, the site is still considered in beta form – which means it’s still a work in progress. For a peak at the future road map of this site, please read my post: Daily Cartoonist roadmap.
Due to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the Daily Cartoonist will be not publishing (or very infrequently) this weekend.
The UCLA Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) have a current exhibition called “Masters of American Comics.”
Slate has a very interesting article/prediction/preview on the intersecting futures of the old and new media. It’s worth the time to read. If you haven’t considered the coming collision, this is a good article to see just how blurred the industries may become. Private Capital’s proposal didn’t kill Google, but it signaled the newspaper industry’s […]