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, [...]

Keith Knight amuses me. We recently chatted in the bar at the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) convention that Keith was crashing. As something of an NCS historian, I thought I would respond to Keith’s suggestions in cartoon form below.
Hold the convention in a smaller town.
We’ve had some odd convention locations in the past. The convention [...]

I was asked to speak about the future of syndication on panels at the National Cartoonists Society convention this week and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in July. The subject is a burning issue for cartoonists – burning a hole in the wallets of many cartoonists, as newspapers seem to be fading away [...]

 
I was saddened to read that my friend, cartoonist Frank Springer, died last week of prostate cancer.  He was 79. Frank was a great guy; he will be missed.  He worked on just about every super hero you can think of from the 1960’s through the 1980’s, he even looked like a super hero himself. [...]

The official NCSF Jay Kennedy Scholarship “Call for Entries” artwork by my buddy, Michael Ramirez.

In my spare minutes away from my drawing board, and Twittering compulsively, I’m the president of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, which runs a great scholarship program.  The deadline is approaching and I would encourage college cartoonists to apply - it [...]

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 [...]