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 [...]

Who would’ve thought Hello Kitty could spark controversy within the cartoon world?
Syndicated editorial cartoonist Ted Rall has criticized the Financial Times for an illustration it ran along with a Clive Crook piece titled “Obama is choosing to be weak.”
Rall claims the illustration by Australian-based artist David Bromley stole the ‘Hello Kitty’ theme Rall has used [...]

Despite the loss of over a dozen staff political cartoonist jobs in the last year alone and the imminent closure of the sponsoring newspaper for this year’s American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) convention, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the AAEC is pressing on with its plans to hold its convention in Seattle on July 1-4.
“There has [...]

Syndicated cartoonist and American Association of Editorial Cartoonists president Ted Rall has devoted his column this week to the newest endangered species facing possible extinction - editorial cartoonists.
“Never has the profession been as ideologically, stylistically or demographically diverse. Never has the art been as daring or ambitious. Never have cartoons been as popular or, [...]

More cartoonists have weighed in on the Delonas chimp cartoon that appeared in Wednesday’s New York Post, including Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Mark Streeter at the Savannah Morning News.
Hate that chimp cartoon? You can bid on the Web URL BoycottTheNewYorkPost.com at eBay. [H/T - Mike Lynch]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman thinks Sean [...]

Poynter Institute will be holding an online chat today from 1:15-1:45 p.m. EST about yesterday’s controversial cartoon by New York Post’s editorial cartoonist Sean Delonas.
Participating in the discussion will be American Association of Editorial Cartoonists President Ted Rall and Eric Deggans, the media critic for the St. Petersburg Times.

Syndicated cartoonist and American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ president Ted Rall has released his latest animated political cartoon called “Behind the Rubric: The Bushies.” The animation is done by David Essman, a student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Essman’s movies have been screened at various film festivals across the country.
“I’ve [...]

Ten years ago, syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall did a cartoon poking fun at the growing controversy surrounding second-hand smoke.
In the cartoon, a husband tells his wife: “If you don’t love me enough to stop dragging home your nicotine-contaminated carcass, at least think of the children.”
“We don’t have kids, you idiot,” she responds.
“Because your thirdhand smoking [...]

Once a strong two newspaper town with competing editorial cartoonists, Seattle now faces the prospect of not having a local voice penning cartoons as The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington’s longest-published newspaper, has been put up for sale.
After a local Seattle television station broke the news, the newspaper’s staff was called into a closed meeting with Steven [...]