From the Toonseum: It is with very mixed feelings that the ToonSeum Board announces that Joe Wos, founder and executive director, will be leaving the ToonSeum to pursue new and exciting creative opportunities. Since 2007, Joe?s vision, leadership and boundless energy has propelled the ToonSeum from a tiny hallway in The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh […]
Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson were among several individuals connected to the Philadelphia newspapers named in a defamation suit filed by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery and his wife Lise Rapaport who allege the paper conducted a smear campaign. The suit mentions a specific Signe cartoon (see below) satirizing the […]
Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers has been honored by the city of Pittsburgh with a declaration naming today, October 8, 2013 as Rob Rogers Day. The declaration honors Rob’s three decades of drawing editorial cartoons and using “wit, deft artistry, and a large dose of love for Pittsburgh, Rob Rogers has for years charmed readers, […]
Virginia Montanez has a highly entertaining post about a rubber duck death match between The Cultural Trust (Pittsburgh) and Toonseum founder Joe Woz. At issue is a local event featuring a giant floating rubber duck that will be built and floated down the river. The Cultural Trust has spent a tidy sum of money to […]
A University of Pittsburgh student was arrested this early this morning after robbing a convenience store dressed in a Spider-Man costume. By the reports from the local media (see video below), the caper didn’t work out so well for the faux web-head. He was tased by the convenience store clerk and arrested a block away […]
I’ve known about Tony Auth for years now, but his work never ran in the papers I subscribed to so aside from a few that make the news, I haven’t had the opportunity to explore his work. Camino Books, out of Philadelphia, has published a book “The Art of Tony Auth: To Stir, Inform and […]
Last September I posted news that Toonseum founder Joe Wos was attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. The maze is still being created even though he started it back in July. Dave Crawley, reporting for the local TV station KDKA, interviews Joe and we get to see in the […]
Philadelphia Inquirer’s former editorial cartoonist Tony Auth has an exhibit called “Drawing the Line: A Symposium on the State of Editorial Cartoons”. See slides over on The Reporter Online. Exhibit runs through October 21.
ToonSeum founder Joe Wos is attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. When completed the maze will measure over 4 feet high by 30 feet long. The fully solvable maze is filled with cartoon illustrations. From the press release: The inception for the project began a few years ago when […]
Stephan Pastis is taking his game to Pittsburgh. He’ll be at the Toonseum this weekend for two engagements (first one is already sold out) – both require tickets. According to the promotional material, Stephan will talk about his strip, his conversion from lawyer to cartoonist and show some of his best work. A book signing […]
Get ready Pennsylvania, next year’s National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards will be held in Pittsburgh. The official dates will be May 24-26 and be held at the Omni William Penn Hotel. So far the only thing planned this far in advance that I’m aware of is from The Toonseum which says they will be featuring […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth said good bye to his readers yesterday after 40 years with the paper. Creed Black, my editor, was a moderate Republican. He’d not be welcome in today’s Republican Party, but that was a long time ago, in what seems like a far away galaxy. Creed would never tell […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has been told her job at the paper is no longer in danger. Last week, after Tony Auth announced he was leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer, we learned that Signe’s future was dependent on 10 other individuals taking a voluntary buy-out. Michael Cavna reports that while she and the […]
The two Philadelphia dailies are heading into an uncertain future. Currently the two papers and their joint web property, Philly.com, are up for sale and the papers are being combined with editorial separation. Buyouts are being offered to employees with the hopes of trimming the employee count. After Tony Auth leaves the Inquirer at the […]
Philadelphia’s local CBS station is reporting that Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth, the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, is leaving the paper after 40+ years. The two Philly papers (Inquirer and Daily News) and their joint website (philly.com) are currently up for sale and newsrooms are being combining. The Inquirer’s owner is also trying […]