I’m reclusive and elusive, but I’ll be in Las Vegas this Saturday night where we’ll have a fan evening at the Tuscany Suites Hotel from 6:00 to 8:00pm in the Sienna Hall.  It is free and nobody is selling anything, so come by and say “hello.”
I’m in Las Vegas this weekend for a seminar on [...]

 
I’m still reeling from the news that Robert Arial lost his job at The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.  Robert sent me this note:
Hey, Daryl,
Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you before now- I’ve been inundated with mail, e-mail and phone calls that I’ve tried to answer and thank everyone for all of their [...]

I heard from Bill Day today that he just lost his job at The Memphis Commercial-Appeal.  Last week I heard from Robert Ariail at The State in South Carolina that he also lost his job, in what Robert describes as “the McClatchy Tsunami.”  Both Bill and Robert are long-time contributors to our site, and are [...]

In our most recent Best Political Cartoons of the Year book I gave a list of cartoonists who had lost their jobs in the “past year.” I’ve updated the list below, to include the recent job losses and the list goes back approximately two years. The pace of job losses is quickening; I know of [...]

Another day brings more news of cartoonist job losses and rumors of more to come.  John Branch got his pink slip today, along with 135 other employees at the San Antonio Express-News.  See John’s cartoon archive here. John sent me this note:
Dear Daryl,
Thanks for your message.  I was one of the 135 people (75 in [...]

Friday (2/27/09) is the last day of publication for the Rocky Mountain News, as another excellent cartoonist, Ed Stein loses his job. Ed sent me his last cartoon and his last blog post for the paper.  Ed’s cartoons will continue on our site as he will keep drawing for syndication.
 Well, folks, this is the last [...]

I haven’t posted in the blog for a while as we’ve been updating to a new blogging system from our antique programming.  There has been plenty of bad news while I’ve been blogless; most recently, my buddy Patrick O’Conner was laid off from the Los Angeles Daily News.  See Patrick’s cartoon archive here, and see [...]

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 [...]

I’ve never paid much attention to Canadian politics and I’ve never really understood the cartoons that my colleagues north of the border draw.
But lately, the Canadian political cartoons have taken on a frantic tone and I asked [...]

In the YouTube video below, Brian Duffy, who was recently laid off from the Des Moines Register, talks about about getting the boot on a local television interview. Thanks to Rob Tornoe for the link.