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, [...]

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 [...]

Obama seems like an easy guy to draw; he’s skinny, has a big chin, expressive eyebrows and lips. As it turns out, no matter how a cartoonist draws Obama, somebody gets mad.
When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration. As time goes by, political figures morph [...]

I get occasional requests from readers to explain the nuts and bolts of how I draw my cartoons, and to show my rough sketches. Here are three examples.
First I do a rough sketch in hard pencil on 11″ by 17″ paper. I like the extra hard pencils because they encourge me not to spend too [...]

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 [...]