“In four years, you can: Graduate from high school, earn a college degree, or even serve your first term as U.S. president. But you can’t fully recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.”
Marshall Ramsey, the editorial cartoonist for the Clarion Ledger, has traveled back to the sites he visited in December 2005, pen and pad [...]

It looks like the Journal News has come to their senses. According to The Daily Cartoonist, the Westchester newspaper has reversed their initial decision and will not eliminate the staff cartoonist position that Pultizer-Prize winner Matt Davies has filled for nearly 17 years.

Here’s an interesting public service announcement from Brazil. Funny and well animated, it urges people to save water by peeing in the shower. I wonder why they didn’t get George Costanza to be their spokesperson.

Hundreds of copies of a Malaysian cartoon magazine on current issues edited by prominent cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque (better known as Zunar) have been confiscated by the Malaysian government, according to a report from The Straits Times.

Woody Guthrie, the popular singer/songwriter of such greats as “This Land Is Your Land,” “Red Wine,” “Jesus Christ” and “Pastures of Plenty,” turns our to be more than a performer. In addition to being a journalist, activist, entertainer, poet and an all-around folk hero, Guthrie was an artist.
And the Okfuskee County Historical Society [...]

“The profession of editorial cartooning isn’t so much dying as it is simply entering a new phase in the the circle of life — the phase where the corpse is eaten by maggots and turned into dirt,” writes Kirk Anderson, a former staffer for the Pioneer Press, in a commentary for Minnesota Public Radio about [...]

Bucking the trend of recent newspapers who have cut ties with their once prominent cartoonists, the Chicago Tribune has hired Scott Stantis, currently the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News, as its new staff editorial cartoonist. This fills the vacancy left by the death of Pulitzer-Prize winner Jeff MacNelly in 2000.
“The Chicago Tribune is bullish [...]

Editorial cartoonist Milt Prigree (view Milt’s cartoons here) forwarded me a video from this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) Convention.
The video features Halifax Chronicle-Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon singing “Better Days,” a song he wrote about the plight of editorial cartoonists amid cutbacks and job eliminations.
For those of you into the popular [...]

 
I guess bad news for cartoonists comes in twos.
On the heels of the news that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Davies was laid-off from the Journal News, Gary Markstein, a former cartoonist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has taken a buyout offered to 30 members of the newsroom. Another 30 newsroom employees were laid-off. This [...]

 
Matt Davies, the long-time Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist for the Journal News, is the latest victim of cutbacks that have plagued parent corporation Gannett. Davies’ staff cartoonist position has been selected as one of 50 newsroom jobs eliminated at the Westchester newspaper.
“As of August 28th, the position of editorial cartoonist at The Journal News is [...]