I’m holding my breath. I’m now into my third month of waiting for Apple to approve my iPhone app. Yesterday I heard from Apple that they need more time to think about it.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Yes, I know my cartoons are not updating – I’m on vacation in Japan. Last Saturday I did a speech at the Hara Museum of Modern Art; thanks to everyone who came. I had a translator for this talk, and every so often, I would say a short sentence and the translation would go [...]

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 [...]

I have to admit, the Obama inauguration excitement escapes me. I had to draw a cartoon about it, and my cartoon is below. Lots of readers ask to see what my sketches look like - that’s the line drawing below the color, and the rough sketch below that. Most people see the cartoon as the [...]

Here’s a collection of about 40 of my Bush cartoons from the past eight years, collected into a chronological history of the Bush administration. Here it is as an MSNBC.com slide show. Let me know what you think. 
There’s cartoons I drew for Hawaii’s Midweek, the Honolulu Advertiser, Slate.com and MSNBC.com in there.  I’ve moved around a lot [...]

Our big collection of cartoons covering the presidential campaign is out in bookstores a month before election day!
We’ve got the best of the campaign from start to almost-finish, with Obama, McCain, Sarah Palin, the convention, Hillary Clinton and all those wonderful memories, like 3:00am phone calls, super-delegates and crazy preachers! We even have a chapter [...]

I’m sorry to write that two of my favorite political cartoonists have retired from our tiny profession.
Sandy Huffaker is one my cartoon heroes. When I was in college I was a big fan of his cartoons that were running every week in Time Magazine. Sandy worked as a regular editorial cartoonist for a newspaper when [...]