South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) won the graphical journalism category of the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards for his two cartons “Rape of Justice” and “Xenophobia Flag.” The former cartoon depicted the then African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma of preparing to rape lady justice and sparked a law suit against the cartoonist by […]
» Magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson has relaunched his site with new features. » Jason Killingsworth writes in Paste Magazine the five reasons he still loves Calvin and Hobbes. » Lynn Johnston creates five cartoon thank you cards for med students to give to their patience whom they practice on. » Tom Richmond writes how to […]
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help […]
» The fallout over Jonathan Sapiro‘s (Zapiro) cartoon is still in motion. This article in Afrol News mentions the death threats he’s received including a veiled one from Party Youth League president Julius Malema. » Kurt Westergaard was a surprise speaker at this year’s Danish People’s Party’s convention. He spoke on freedom of speech and […]
» Matt Davies returns home to Westport CT to speak. He calls himself, “the only redheaded, English-accented graduate from Staples High School to win a Pulitzer prize.” » The Washington Times has picked up Charlos Gary – as a new employee. Congrats to Charlos. » Bo Nanas creator John Kovaleski is now a blogger. » […]
The AAEC wrapped up it’s annual convention over the weekend. Here is a list of stories about the going’s on: Dana Priest, the journalist that broke the story on the Walter Reed hospital deplorable conditions spoke to editorial cartoonists praising them for putting “the punctuation mark on the sentences we constructed.“ Nick Anderson will become […]