My alma mater is marking its 60th year, as is its student newspaper. Long Beach State, or more properly California State University Long Beach, was born in 1949 and was saddled with the school nickname of the Forty-Niners (the lame football mascot was a big-chinned character holding a gold-mining pan… yeah, real scary to [...]

A new global forum for ideas as brought forth by editorial cartoonists and video journalists has made its debut, and I am delighted to be a part of it.
The Video Journalism Movement, at www.vjmovement.com, comes out of The Netherlands and like many good ideas, began in a bar.
Thomas Loudon was a Dutch video journalist covering [...]

The past week has seen one big win for editorial cartooning jobs, and one big loss.
The big win was Drew Litton, who is the rarest of breeds, a sports editorial cartoonist. His job abruptly came to a halt when his newspaper, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, shut down, throwing him (and his coworker Ed Stein) out [...]