Industry news for the professional cartoonist
This is the story of five kids and a mouse. It begins with a boy—Dan O’Neill, who, at 21, became one of the youngest syndicated cartoonists… Before long, he met up with 20-year-old Bobby London and 23 year-old Ted Richards at the Berkley Tribe… 25-year-old artist named Gary Hallgren, who at that time had…
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A Halloween Cartoon List Steve Stanchfield, via Cartoon Research, presents a list of seasonal animated cartoons: Since it’s almost Halloween, I’ll continue the tradition of posting some favorite Halloween films. Here’s the ones that are on my must watch list (again) for this year. Some of these will very likely be projected for the kids…
This silly cartoon by Alistair Findlay may seem an odd kickoff to a post about the upcoming elections, particularly since he’s South African, but stick with me. First of all, it might not be all that silly. Not that I would expect NASCAR or Formula One to kick out their drivers, but a separate race…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher and Editor-in-Chief John Robinson Block has announced the appointment of Steve Kelley as the Post-Gazette’s new editorial cartoonist. Said Mr. Block: “Since my grandfather acquired the Post-Gazette in 1923, cartooning has been a hallowed tradition of this newspaper. It is with great pride and pleasure that I welcome Steve Kelley. I am…
Comedian Chili Challis has passed away. “I like flying kites, the higher the better. Sometimes I like doing it sober too.” BERT (CHILI) CHALLIS DECEMBER 27, 1950 – OCTOBER 9, 2018 Comedian, gag writer Chili has written for and worked with the likes of Jay Leno, Ron White, Fred Willard, George Lopez, Steve…
JD Crowe wins Rex Babin Memorial Award for Local Cartooning “For decades, JD Crowe has been drawing fresh, original, pungent, brutal, and thought-provoking local cartoons. He is universally respected by his peers for his work.” The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced the awarding and profiles the “moderately disturbed dorky cartoonist” (The profile does not…
This is a single panel from Bob Eckstein’s “A Sketchbook of the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference,” in the current New Yorker, and you should go read that if you want the rest of this to make sense. (Your choice, of course.) Eckstein’s piece is about fiction writing and book publishing, but it applies to a…
Kevin Siers offers the most iconic cartoon on this day, when editorial writers and editorial cartoonists have been called upon to voice their support and concern for the free press. A few editor’s notes of my own: I decided ahead of time that I would feature six cartoons from however many came across my desk,…
Commentators Someone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts. The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s…
Jim Carrey’s Anti-Trump Cartoons Since 2016, Carrey has created more than a hundred cartoons protesting the Trump Administration, a pastime that borders on the obsessive. “I fight him to the end,” he said recently, citing the Bhagavad Gita. New Yorker contributor Charles Bethea sits down with Jim Carrey about his spare time hobby of editorial…
Not often anymore, but today Bill Bramhall‘s editorial cartoon made the front page of his newspaper. Bill’s cartoon is gaining fame for it’s depiction of the Trump-Putin news conference. From The Hill: Tuesday’s cover of The New York Daily News depicts President Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head after his jaw-dropping summit with Russian…
Editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey ponders his career choice in 2018. Editorial cartoonist positions were already disappearing because of the swing of accountants’ axes. Losing one because the cartoonist was too critical of a person in power is particularly chilling. I’ll be honest, it’s unnerving. Change is scary. There are days when I wake up with…
The late Rex Babin, editorial cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee, was honored with the Mark Twain Award for Journalistic Excellence by the California Press Foundation. His family received the award on his behalf. From the Sacramento Bee Babin, 49, died in March 2012 after a 15-month struggle with cancer. The annual award honors writers and…
From The Duke Chronicle: For some members of the Class of 2019, the choice of ?Fun Home? as a summer reading book was anything but fun. Several incoming freshmen decided not to read ?Fun Home? because its sexual images and themes conflicted with their personal and religious beliefs. Freshman Brian Grasso posted in the Class…