Here is another interview from this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Convention. This time, I sit down with Mikhaela Reid and Jen Sorenson, two successful female alternative cartoonists featured on our site, and discuss the state of the industry and the uphill battle female cartoonists face.
In fact, the conversation was so good, we [...]

This week I’ll be traveling to Seattle for the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention. In recent years, the convention has had the flavor of a wake, as cartoonists mourn the loss of full-time newspaper positions. Ironically, the loss of jobs hasn’t resulted in fewer political cartoons or fewer political cartoonists, [...]

The Huffington Post, which famously pays nothing to its writers, has a ridiculous piece by Jason Notte about “Ten Features That Are Dying with your Newspaper;” included on the list are editorial cartoons and one comic, The Family Circus. Notte writes:

9. Editorial Cartoons: You know those witty, insightful, stinging illustrated summaries of current events that [...]

I’d like to ask our readers to help our cartoonists with an urgent problem. We are asking you to send an email on behalf of the cartoonists. The Senate just passed the “Orphan Works Bill,” quickly, behind closed doors and without a vote, through a controversial practice known as “hotlining.” The bill rewrites the copyright [...]

I’m constantly being asked why there are so few women that are editorial cartoonists. I don’t have a good answer for that. One of the few female cartoonists on our site, altie cartoonist Jen Sorensen, wrote an excellent column on the topic for Campus Progress and has graciously allowed us to reprint it here.

Wanted: Female [...]