A reader of the Casper Star-Tribune didn’t approve of a cartoon, penned by Atlanta Journal-Constitution great Mike Luckovich, which depicts Pope Benedict XVI trying to lure Anglicans into the Catholic Church.

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich has created two newspaper related cartoons for the Newspaper Project, a group formed to promote newspapers.
The cartoons coincide with two new ads released by the Newspaper Project, which emphasize the fact that newspapers were America’s first portable information device, and they have been “defending freedom daily since 1776.”
The group, [...]

As an editorial cartoonist, coming up with ideas is the most difficult process of producing a cartoon. Somedays, the idea just seems to magically appear, and others it’s like pulling teeth.
If you can’t come up with an idea about a news story, or you have an editor breathing down your neck, a cartoonist can play [...]

An angry letter writer published in The Mercury News take issue with this cartoon by Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich:
No equivalence in Gaza violence
Mike Luckovich’s editorial cartoon (”The Last Israeli-The Last Palestinian,” Opinion, Jan. 7) portrays a false equivalence between Israeli and Palestinian deaths. The reality is that 686 Palestinians have been killed in the [...]