Now that the California Supreme Court decided to uphold Proposition 8 and the ban on gay marriage, I thought I’d post this cartoon I did a while back when the fight for equal rights was taking place.
The court majority said same-sex couples would continue to have the right to choose life partners and enter [...]

You can go ahead and trash all of those expensive paint brushes you own.
The New Yorker has put on its cover a painting by longtime contributor Jorge Colombo. But forget about paint and canvas; Colombo drew this week’s magazine cover using Brushes, an application on the iPhone.
““I got a phone in the beginning of February, [...]

Former Commercial Appeal editorial cartoonist Bill Day, let go last month as part of cutbacks at the newspaper, has written a letter to the editor into the Memphis Flyer regarding Commercial Appeal editor Chris Peck’s comments that he “considered slashing his wrists over an accurate but incomplete story in a rival publication’s account of his [...]

Who said the currently economy and the downfall of metro newspapers was killing the cartoon market? The United Nations is actually advertising an open position they have for a cartoonist.
Really.
Know anything about Somalia?
According to a job posting on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) website, the UN wants to hire a cartoonist to produce a [...]

 
Jonathan Shapiro, South Africa’s leading editorial cartoonist who publishes in different newspapers four times a week, has decided to remove the trademark shower he has placed atop South African President Jacob Zuma’s head in his cartoon depictions of him.
“I thought I will take stock of where we are and give the presidency a chance to [...]

 
“A 22-minute editorial cartoon” is how Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s hit “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” described his show to Radio Free Europe.
“It is creating something,” Stewart said. “It is parasitic to some extent. We are feeding upon the flesh of something else for our own [purposes], to create our [...]

 
The Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism has named it’s 2009 winner, and among the distinguished journalists is Cagle.com cartoonist Ed Stein, former staff cartoonist at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News.
Ed’s work was recognized for it’s graphic sophistication covering the economy, torture and other crucial issues.
The Aronson Awards have been presented since [...]

Adam Tschorn over at the LA Times has posted a preview of the upcoming “collaboration” between Vans and R. Crumb.
Four different Crumb shoes are due to hit store shelves on Oct. 1; two in the Vans Classics collections — including the Mr. Natural deconstructed SK8-Hi pictured above ($60) and a classic slip-on featuring Fritz [...]

World-famous artist Vincent Van Gogh is almost as well know for cutting off his own ear than any of the fantastic paintings he produced in his lifetime.
But in an art world shocker, two German art historians suggest that it was Van Gogh’s friend, French artist Paul Gaugin, a fencing ace, who attacked Van Gogh [...]

Today’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip by Stephen Pastis comments on the dwindling staff of editorial cartoonists continuing to work at newspapers.
It seems in a visual age, with less space available and an aging readership, newspapers seem to want to cut the content that succinctly appeals to time-crunched computer-orientated youngsters.
Newspapers would be better [...]