The Milt Priggee cartoon above has managed to offend the Jacksonville (FL.) chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police. The local news station reports the FOP believe it “is offensive and puts local police officers in danger.” FOP president Steve Amos speaking to WJXT: ?They are outraged and embarrassed, because they don?t believe they should […]
Daryl Cagle announced that former Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Detroit Free-Press editorial cartoonist Bill Day has taken a full-time position with the Florida web site FloridaPolitics.com. Daryl writes: I was please to learn that my talented, cartoonist buddy, Bill Day, just got a full time job as an editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com. New jobs for […]
Back in July, editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker announced that he was voluntarily stepping away from his staff job that he’s held for the last 21 years with Florida Today. Jeff cited the need to reduce workload and spend more time working on the comic strip Dustin that he co-created with former Times-Picayune editorial cartoonist Steve […]
Dana Summers, editorial cartoonist for the Orlando Sentinel, announced on Facebook he was laid off from the paper due to cutbacks. Jim Romenesko reports that that several Sentinel employees, including Dana, took a buyout. Dana mentions that he’ll continue to syndicate editorial cartoons through his syndicate and focus on his two comic strips Bound and […]
University of South Florida College of Public Health Dean Emeritus Charles Mahan started to collect original cartoons when he was 12. Over the years he has amassed a collection of over 8,000 pieces. Part of his collection was recently exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art. He donated his collection to the University of South […]
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and local fire fighters are calling foul to a recent cartoon by Andy Marlette depicting firefighters hosing down two African-Americans with a caption that reads, “Don’t worry, since they laid off all the journalists in Alabama we can get away with this kind of stuff again!” The cartoon […]
Sean Pitts profiles Orlando Sentinel editorial cartoonist Dana Summers about his sketch to color process . Dana also does the Bound and Gagged comic strip.
The Miami Herald has bucked the trend of cutting comics and has added four additional comics to their line-up. In all seven new strips were added. Three comics (For Better or For Worse, Barney and Clyde, and Shortcuts) were dropped. The new features starting in both the daily and Sunday pages include: Cul-de-Sac and The […]
I’ve been waiting for news about last week’s annual American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention held at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. The buzz was especially low this year. Usually the local paper will run something announcing the association was in town. The only blurb I found was from St. Petersburg Times – […]
Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe won the 125,000 circulation category for editorial cartoons in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors’ 2011 Journalism Contest. Andy Marlette of the Pensacola News Journal took the prize in the 50,000 to 125,000 circulation category. Don Brown of the Hernando Today won in the under 50,000.
The Ledger, (Lakeland, FL) has added four comics to their comic line-up. They conducted a reader survey that yielded more than 1,200 responses. The new comics include Between Friends , Dustin , Pearls Before Swine and Sherman’s Lagoon. The article didn’t mention which strips were dropped, but mentioned the low vote getters were Sally Forth […]