As we’ve reported, Saturday night the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) announced their annual award winners at their convention in San Francisco. To the surprise and delight of us three here at The Daily Cartoonist, we, along with The Washington Post reporter Michael Cavna, The Nib cartoonist and publisher Matt Bors, and AAEC volunteer/organizer […]
Timing may not be everything, but it’s a lot of things, and today’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) lands the day after I saw someone observing on social media that the Community Chest card in Monopoly teaches kids to rely on government handouts if they get in trouble. 24 hours later, my response […]
Mike Smith (KFS) makes his own State of the Union report. There are empty store shelves all around the world. Covid continues to hit a whole lot of countries. You can’t blame everything on The Guy in the White House. Not even the weather. And, for that matter, he’s not the guy standing in the […]
Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price will be teaching a class on cartooning in April. The description from the course website: What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, setting, characters, surprise… all in a snapshot.) Each day’s lecture will focus on a different element of panel cartooning and I’ll assign exercises to strengthen that […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
Congratulations are in order to Anne Morse Hambrock, the creator of The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Anne was one of four who were recognized by Kenosha city for their efforts to expand art appreciation in the city. From the Kenosha News: Kenosha’s Commission on the Arts wants to make one thing clear: The city?s vibrant […]
We’re about nine days away from Inktober – the month long challenge to draw and ink something interesting everyday and share it online. According to Jake Parker, the creator of the challenge, the rules are simple: Drawing in ink, post it online, use the hashtag #inktober. If you can’t commit to everyday, commit to something […]
Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has been heading up The Nib at Medium has announced that he’s walking away and taking The Nib with him. Medium gave me a great opportunity to build something huge and a freedom to operate that you don?t see very often in online media, especially when it comes to comics. I […]
Matt Bors explains changes are afoot at The Nib, which in the last couple of years has become a notable place the web for comics. But a daily lineup was in many ways a very traditional approach to publishing. And a traditional approach to publishing has never been Medium?s thing. So we?re making changes to […]
From Newsweek: Cartoonists are ?particularly vulnerable? to threats because their work conveys ?incredibly complex ideas and themes and critiques in a pretty simple, easy to understand manner that crosses barriers,? said Courtney Radsch, advocacy director of CPJ. ?That?s what makes the cartoons powerful but also what puts the cartoonists at great risk…. They are pushing […]
NPR interviewed New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee regarding his latest book Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People. The book comes out later this month. From NPR: On The New Yorker’s rejection rate It’s classically bad. … We’re supposed to turn in 10 gag ideas, you know, at a sketch level. And on a really […]
Daddy’s Home co-creator Gary Markstein has started doing cat cartoons for a local non-profit to deal with the issue of overpopulation of feral cats. The cartoons aren’t the LOLcatz kind of thing. It’s all about bringing awareness to a program called “Trap, Neuter and Return.” Gary got involved after visiting with a friend in Grand […]
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist and AAEC President Jack Ohman has posted the first of four in an illustrated series about his experience taking care of his aging father. The series runs on PBS.org.
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation has announced that this year’s recipient of the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is Derek Desierto of Sheridan College in Ontario where he studies animation. Derek will receive a $5,000 scholarship and a trip to The National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend in Washington DC in May. From the NCSF: […]
The 2015-16 Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning fundraising has started. Anne Morse Hambrock, the festival founder, has a great event lined up. Mark Tatulli of Lio, Heart of the City, Desmond Puckett Bill Morrison ? Art Director: Futurama, Co-Founder of Bongo Comics, Simpsons and Disney Illustrator, Roswell Little Green Man Jan Eliot – Stone Soup Darrin […]