It wasn’t long ago that I was writing about Bill Schorr retiring from editorial cartooning.  I’m pleased to announce that Bill is coming back and will be drawing political cartoons that we will syndicate here at Cagle Cartoons, Inc. Bill worked as a staff cartoonist for the New York Daily News, The Kansas City Star and The Los [...]

I just got this interesting email from the editorial page editor of the Pocono Record:
Hi Daryl,
Just wanted to pass along a criticism from a very, very angry white male reader.
On Sunday, Aug. 2 I ran an editorial on prison reform noting the U.S. claim to fame-high prison population and advocating that we look more closely [...]

I’ll be moderating a panel of Editorial Cartoonists again this year at the San Diego Comic Con!  We may have one or two more cartoonists than what has been announced.
I’ll also be spending a chunk of time hanging out at the National Cartoonists Society booth.  Stop by and say hello.
Sunday, July 26th, 11:30-12:30, Room 5AB, Newspaper Editorial [...]

Michael Jackson was God’s gift to editorial cartoonists. Now that the gift has been “returned to sender” the cartoonists are mourning the loss of one of their most evergreen gags.
Jackson was a wonderful character for cartoons. From “Jesus Juice” to chimps and burning hair, he was a cartoon treasure. One of my all time favorites [...]

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 about the death of Draper Hill, the former cartoonist for the Detroit News.  I got to know Draper through the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) conventions; he was among the first cartoonists on our site when we started out back in the 1990’s.  
Draper was a cartoon historian and a [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]