I’m saddened to write that one of the great editorial cartoonists has decided to retire. Mike Lane, who drew for the Baltimore Sun for decades and was one of the very first cartoonists to form our little syndicate, is calling it quits.
Mike stopped drawing early last month when he was slated for open heart surgery, [...]

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 National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) just announced the winner of the 2009 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. Chris Houghton, (pictured) 20, is a junior at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan where he studies illustration. Houghton was chosen from among 120 applicants for the award, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and a trip [...]

Michael Cavna, who writes an excellent blog about cartooning, interviewed me about my use of Twitter, and here’s the interview. We have a nice collection of cartoons about Twitter here.
Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dcagle
The Twitter Interview: Cartoonist Daryl Cagle
DARYL CAGLE is a political cartoonist. Daryl Cagle is a syndicator. And not least of all, Daryl [...]

I asked our cartoonist, Larry Wright for acomment on the big announcement that the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are cutting back home delivery to three days a week. Larry worked as a cartoonist employee [...]

We get the same questions in the email box every day and I thought I would take some time out to respond to some of the most frequent ones.
You say you update the cartoons “every day” but I see lots of the same cartoons are up now that were there yesterday. What’s up with that?
The [...]

We just added three new cartoonists to the site. Actually, they are three old cartoonists who are coming back after some time away.
The first is Brian Duffy of the Des Moines Register. Brian is one of only two cartoonists whose color cartoons appear every day on the front page of a large metropolitcan daily newspaper [...]

I’m pleased to announce that we have added a new cartoonist to our newspaper syndication package, David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. I’ve been a fan of David’s work for a long time on our site. He draws the gag cartoons that editors prefer (David is a stand-up comedian) and his cartoons [...]

The quality of my local Los Angeles Times has sunk so low that I’ve switched to reading the competing Los Angeles Daily News, which employs a full time cartoonist (Patrick O’Connor) and runs great editorial cartoons every day of the week. The LA Times now goes without any editorial cartoon three days a week, prints [...]