Recently on his Baking the Baker blog, Charles Brubaker came across the videos from a Doonesbury animated special produced by NBC in the late ’70s.
According to Wikipedia:
A Doonesbury Special was produced and directed by Gary Trudeau, along with John Hubley (who died during the storyboarding stage) and Faith Hubley. The Special was first broadcast [...]

 
With the death of Michael Jackson, cartoonists are confronted with a dilemma: focus on positive influence his music had on millions, or on the more darker aspects that plagued him until his death. Daryl Cagle had a great post about the thought process that goes into coming up with an idea that is both timely [...]

A Korean cartoonist identified a Choi has been issued a summons and asked to turn himself in by the Wonju Police Station for inserting insulting and potentially threatening phrases about South Korean President Lee Myung-bak into a cartoon.

Throughout Iran, we’re receiving reports that newspapers are being suspended and Iranian journalists are being arrested.
“Before the presidential election, some of Iranian cartoonist had drawn cartoon about the electoral competitions,” Iranian cartoonist Sepideh Anjomrooz told me by email. “But after the election Iranian cartoonists are silent. ”

“Independent Iranian cartoonists could not draw any [...]

Even though this “New Rules” segment by Bill Maher called ‘Suck of the Draw’ initially aired back in May, from time-to-time I still see cartoons featuring Barack Obama with his name clearly labeled somewhere in the cartoon. It also happened with George W. Bush, most often represented with a ‘W’ button pinned to his jacket.
Sometimes, [...]

Today, Andrea Mitchell made note of that fact that a year ago this Friday, Tim Russert, the longtime NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and host of ‘Meet the Press’, died of a heart attack while recording voiceovers for that Sunday’s ‘Meet the Press’ broadcast.
I was obviously a fan of his insight and analysis, but [...]

 
The Associated Press is reporting that New York Post parent company News Corp. is forming an external diversity council in response to pressure over a widely-circulated and much-maligned cartoon by staffer Sean Delonas that critics said compared President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
The cartoon first appeared on February 18, and critics became so vocal [...]

 
According to the Daily Kos, this Chip Bok cartoon, which ran in the The Oklahoman, is a racist (or as the writer has added, an ‘Extremely Irresponsible and Insensitive’) attack against Presdient Obama’s choice to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice David Souter.
The cartoon depicts nominee Sonia Sotomayor hanging on the tree [...]

We all know it’s a buyer’s market right now in real estate, especially in recession-battered Florida. So if you have an extra $2 million lying around, you could buy the house of an animation legend.
Cartoon Brew found a listing for Max Fleischer’s house in Miami. Fleischer was an important figure in the development of [...]