
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.

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.

American cartoonist and animator Nina Paley discusses why she chose to make her animated feature Sita Sings the Blues available for free online through a Creative Commons license.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Heidari was one of several participants in a religious ceremony in honor of political prisoners, held in the home of Shehabeldin Tabataba, one of the prisoners close to the reformist party.

On Saturday night at its annual banquet, the Los Angeles-based Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) honored an ailing legend in the comic book industry, Gene Colan, and did a nifty handing of the award to him 3,000 miles away.

Jonathan Shapiro, know throughout the world as “Zapiro,” is the brilliant South African cartoonist at the Mail & Guardian, who is best known for his cartoons targeting South African president Jacob Zuma.

Tt seems to always be an uphill struggle for cartoonists to get their work recognized and exhibited in museums and art galleries. So when another artist makes a print of your cartoon, displays it at an art fair and sells it for ÂŁ150,000, you can understand how a cartoonist would get upset.

Wish you knew more about both World Wars? Angus McLeod has provided us with two comic strip breaking down the defining moments of the two major conflicts of the last century, World War I and World War II.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, accused of accepting bribes while serving as president of the Jefferson County Commission, is turning to an unlikely ally to prove his innocence - former Birmingham News editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis.

A reader complains about a cartoon on the subject of gays in the military a week after President Barack Obama reaffirmes his campaign pledge to end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Here’s what Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, believes: A committee of five Norwegians awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama because he represents a weaker, more pliant America. An America that can no longer “go it alone,” when necessary. Liz’s dad, of course, wholeheartedly agrees with her.

One fun thing about being an editorial cartoonist is that I sometimes get invited to strange places as a cartoon celebrity. I just finished a week in Algiers at their second annual comics festival. Algeria is a huge country, a former socialist member of the Soviet block and a former French colony in North Africa.

What would the world be like without cartoonists? It’s quite difficult to imagine. At cartoon festivals, the public has the opportunity to meet their favorite cartoonists as they draw sketches for fans to take away, be it illustrations, cartoons, characters or caricatures.

By now, everyone knows the story of “balloon boy“, 6-year-old Falcon Henne, who had supposedly taken a ride in his father’s experimental helium balloon. TV news outlets reported on this event for hours, speculating on ever possible angle, until it was revealed that Falcon was in his parent’s attic all along.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Burger King and Fox have apologized for a cartoon that aired during Fox’s NFL Sunday program on Oct. 11 that mocked Jessica Simpson for her rumored weight gain.

While the layoffs and buyouts at daily newspapers have slowed lately (or at least until all the 3rd Quarter revenues are tallied), editorial cartooning still took a lot of hard hits in the past 18 months.

Noli Novak, a staff artist at the Wall Street Journal responsible for some of the paper’s trademark stipple portraits, has called out Spanish artist JosĂ©-MarĂa Cano for plagiarizing her drawing of President Obama in a piece of artwork he produced.

Syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors took possibly the most original approach to the news of Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize win, and used his latest cartoon to announce he has officially won this year’s coveted Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
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Making Sense, by Michael Reagan
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Okay, so I thought I was putting the cancer thing behind me, at least for a little while. However, my body had a different idea. At my first visit with my new dermatologist, ...
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Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Cooper Union, New York City February 27,1860
“I know ...
Here's a shot to the beer gut: Government bodies across America are looking to increase taxes on beer.
According to ABC News, states from Connecticut to Arkansas have been "eyeing higher taxes on cigarettes ...
Where is Tom Hanks when you need him? Something sinister is happening in the Catholic Church, at least according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. And the way she writes, it reads ...
ObamaCare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. Case in point: The Senate Finance Committee proposes a brand-new tax on medical devices.Manufacturers of pacemakers, stents, heart valves, artificial hips, motorized wheelchairs, ...
Yet another study on American family life shows that the more time fathers spend at work, the more time children at home spend on household chores. The study was produced by Contance Gager ...
The Reagan Legacy Foundation Announces Michael Reagan's Visit to Berlin as Part of the Fall of the Berlin Wall 20th Year Celebration and the Opening of the Permanent Ronald Reagan Exhibit at the ...
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It's so easy to look up in middle age and realize there are chores, there are obligations, there's a job but there's no hobby anywhere in sight.
It's kind of ironic that we load ...
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Pakistani jihad death squads were much in the news this week. In Peshawar, Pakistan, they bombed a marketplace, claiming more than 100 lives, and in Chicago, they were thwarted, according to an FBI ...
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There's an important task that congressional moderates can perform on health-care reform besides fighting the public insurance option and containing costs: Find a middle ground on medical malpractice.Even President Barack Obama ought to ...
After a weekend of furious activity, Democratic leaders in the Senate think they are close to getting the votes they need in order to pass an "opt-out" version of the public option.
But they ...
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