One of my favorite cartoonists is Gary Brookins, the conservative cartoonist who also draws the comics Shoe and Pluggers.  Gary had been the editorial cartoonist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and was laid off recently in the national, newspaper bloodletting.  (In fact, it wasn’t long ago that the Times-Dispatch had two cartoonists; the other was Bob Gorrell.)
Gary [...]

Over a long career drawing caricatures and editorial cartoons, I can report that Sarah Palin is one of the greatest gifts ever to our profession! She’s more fun than Bill and Hillary combined. She has the intellectual wattage of George W. Bush coupled with the paranoia of Richard Nixon! And that presents endless comic opportunities [...]

My alma mater is marking its 60th year, as is its student newspaper. Long Beach State, or more properly California State University Long Beach, was born in 1949 and was saddled with the school nickname of the Forty-Niners (the lame football mascot was a big-chinned character holding a gold-mining pan… yeah, real scary to [...]

Sometimes I like to vary the dimensions of my cartoons. Most editorial cartoons are the same 1 1/2 wide by 1 tall, which fits the cartoon hole that newspapers keep open for the cartoon. Sometimes an odd sized cartoon will jar an editor into running something different.
I did today’s cartoon extra wide, but [...]

Here’s another installment from my daughter, Susie, from her cartoon journal of our trip last month to Israel. See more of Susie’s cartoons here on her blog.  I was disappointed to miss the Dome of the Rock - it was closed the whole time we were there because of unrest; Palestinian demonstrators threw rocks injuring [...]

Congratulations to my buddy, Peter Broelman, the brilliant Australian cartoonist who just swept both the best editorial cartoonist and cartoonist of the year prizes at the Stanley Awards!  See more of Peter’s cartoons here.
Before I left on my trip last month I did an interview for BBC World, which they posted as a talking cartoon [...]

This just in:
Daryl,
I just thought I’d write to let you know I heard from Bobble Rep creator Ray Griggs just now that Apple reconsidered their rejection of our app and “Bobble Rep” is now approved and available in the App Store.
I’m glad Apple came to their senses and realized that this app is not only [...]

My daughter, Susie, joined me in Israel for the last week of my trip last month. She has been posting her daily cartoon account of the trip on her blog at http://thisiswhatconcernsme.com and she’s posting a new day of the trip every day now as she paints them in.

Have you received an chain letter from a friend or political adversary that showcases political cartoons from a conservative perspective and claims they are Australian? Yeah, about that…

A lawsuit by former San Diego Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Kelley alleging the paper intimidated his successor, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Breen, to not collaborate on a joint comic strip.

I’m holding my breath. I’m now into my third month of waiting for Apple to approve my iPhone app. Yesterday I heard from Apple that they need more time to think about it.

Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was toppled, signaling the end of four decades of Cold War between the United States and The Soviet Union.

Bruce Plante, the staff cartoonist at the Tulsa World, speaks to a group about some of his political cartoons at The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.

Egyptian cartoonist Tamer Youssef has contacted me to confirm that Hadi Heidari, the Iranian cartoonist arrested in Tehran, has been released from prison.

In the current debate on health care reform, Republicans are often depicted as attempting to slow or delay the passage of meaningful reform. But are they really heroes?

Here’s my new cartoon about the press interviewing Muslims about the Fort Hood shootings. I’m sure it will make some readers angry, as all the other cartoons are still grief cartoons.

I’m pleased to announce that we have added a new cartoonist to our site, Luojie of the English Language China Daily newspaper in Beijing.

When an event occurs that is as horrendous and heart-breaking as the recent shootings in Fort Hood, it’s often a newspaper’s editorial cartoonist who is best able to capture the pulse of a community’s feelings in a single, powerful image.

A new global forum for ideas as brought forth by editorial cartoonists and video journalists has made its debut, and I am delighted to be a part of it.
The Video Journalism Movement, at www.vjmovement.com, comes out of The Netherlands and like many good ideas, began in a bar.
Thomas Loudon was a Dutch video journalist covering [...]

A Seattle cartoonist is getting some attention in South Carolina for a cartoon that uses elements such as a rebel flag, a moonshine apparatus and a noose to depict southern workers.

I run a syndicate, Caglecartoons.com, that distributes political cartoons to newspapers, and every year at this time we hear from editors complaining that there are few or no Veterans Day cartoons.

The past week has seen one big win for editorial cartooning jobs, and one big loss.
The big win was Drew Litton, who is the rarest of breeds, a sports editorial cartoonist. His job abruptly came to a halt when his newspaper, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, shut down, throwing him (and his coworker Ed Stein) out [...]

A piece of artwork that was part of an auction to raise money for the defense fund of an accused murderer seems to copied directly from a cartoon done by syndicated cartoonist Gary McCoy.

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians still looms large in cartoons around the world, with an endless flow of cartoons from Arab countries showing monster-Israel assaulting, eating, crushing or somehow decimating the poor Palestinians. The dove of peace has been killed by Israel in every imaginable cartoon - crushed, squeezed, stabbed, burned, eaten. Poor [...]

When I was in Algeria recently I gave an interview to the Echorouk (the Sunrise) newspaper. The interview, as it is posted in English on the Echorouk site is so crazy that I thought I shouldn’t let it stand without a response. The Echorouk is the largest newspaper in Algeria and possibly the whole Arab [...]

Drew Litton, the former sports cartoonist at the non-defunct Rocky Mountain News, has been picked up by The Chicago Tribune to provide local sports cartoons as part of their retooled sports section named ‘Chicago Sports.’

A reader of the Casper Star-Tribune didn’t approve of a cartoon, penned by Atlanta Journal-Constitution great Mike Luckovich, which depicts Pope Benedict XVI trying to lure Anglicans into the Catholic Church.

Two Chicago men have been arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a Danish newspaper’s cartoonist and cultural editor for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad back in 2005.

Moroccan authorities have confiscated two-days worth of the French newspaper Le Monde over a cartoon protesting the sentence of a Moroccan cartoonist accused of anti-Semitism.

My friend Jeff Koterba, the brilliant cartoonist at the Omaha World-Herald, is releasing his memoir Inklings next week, and to help celebrate it’s release, he’s holding a cartoon contest.