The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called out cartoonist Pat Oliphant as “hideously anti-Semitic” for a cartoon they claim uses “Nazi-like imagery and hateful evocation of the Jewish Star of David.”
The cartoon portrays a headless figure marching in a goose step with a sword in one hand and pushing a Star of David on a wheel with [...]

Have we come to this?
Two companies have joined together to introduce a product they feel could be a boon for newspapers at a time when they’re losing ground to online news sources.
Their product: Taste-It Notes, which is a “sticky note that newspapers can place on their front pages to engage readers in a taste sampling [...]

Dill, the sanguine five-year-old in Richard Thompson’s comic strip Cul de Sac, just created his own Facebook page. His personal interests include pulling weeds, growing hairs one at a time, and naptime.
Scott Hilburn’s comic strip The Argyle Sweater is coming up on its first anniversary as a syndicated comic strip and now appears in over [...]

Robert Ariail, who recently “resigned” from his long-time cartooning position at the South Carolina newspaper The State, has launched a new blog to showcase his work, RobertAriail.com.
“As soon as I get unpacked, we’ll be adding a career’s worth of cartoons to share with you,” Ariail posts.
Ariail, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 and 2000, [...]

This cartoon by Scranton Times-Tribune cartoonist John Cole back in January depicted President Obama’s “Mountaintop” to high expectations.
It was recently re-published in the Scottsdale Chronicle, the student-run newspaper from Scottsdale Community College Newspaper, and one woman who works for the school found it extremely offensive.
“That cartoon to me looked like a primate, a monkey,” [...]

Bill Day, the staff cartoonist for the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, has been laid-off as part of staff cutbacks by corporate parent E.W. Scripps Co.
“It was a terrible shock. I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Day told Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna, who reached the cartoonist by phone while he packed up [...]

Ed Stein, the former editorial cartoonist at the Rocky Mountain News, is preparing to bring back his popular local comic strip ‘Denver Square.’
But there’s a catch — you have to subscribe to InDenverTimes.com.
InDenverTimes.com is a new website being started by former Rocky journalists and some investors, and they have a goal of securing 50,000 subscribers [...]

The State is reporting that its award-winning editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail is resigning effective Friday from South Carolina newspaper
Ariail, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 and 2000, turned down a part-time job that had been offered in the wake of cost-cutting measures taken by the paper’s parent, The McClatchy Company.
Last week, the paper laid off [...]

Editor & Publisher is reporting that The Austin American-Statesman is paying tribute to its Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, Ben Sargent, whose last day is today after accepting a “pretty generous buyout.”
“When he started cartooning, Sargent’s hair was dark and Gerald Ford was president,” reads an unbylined story. “Much has changed in the years since. [...]

Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards for Editorial Cartooning.
Luckovich will receive $10,000 and a trophy for “his ability to incite multiple emotions with the reading of a single cartoon.”
You can view some of Luckovich’s cartoons here.
Other finalists for the [...]