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9th annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning
The poster for the 9th Annual Doug Wright Awards, drawn by Ethan Rilly.The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning are proud to announce their 2013 finalists.The nominees for the 9th annual awards...
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13th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition-Results
The jury of the 13th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition, composed of Rod Macdonell, Shawn McCarty and myself, met last month to choose the winners.Our picks were announced...
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Chapleau takes National Newspaper Awards 2012
The finalists in the Editorial Cartoon category were Serge Chapleau, Brian Gable and Andy Donato.After Montreal, Laval, Mascouche... the brown envelopes reach Toronto!Serge Chapleau, La Presse,...
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"Freedom in Broad Strokes" (2013)
Here is the additional panel with the first three Prizes of the 13th World Press Freedom Cartoon Competition.
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10th Toronto Comic Arts Festival
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2013 @ Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St., May 11-12Fans of comics, manga, and graphic literature will be clearing their calendars this May to attend the 10th...
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Fougasse (1887-1965)
"Fougasse" is a type of bread typically associated with Provence but is also the nom de plume of London born cartoonist Cyril Kenneth Bird. His work first appeared in Punch in 1916 where he became Art...
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The Image Duplicator Show
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is how closely many of his images were "appropriated"...
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"Sleepwalking" by Sebastian Krüger
From Krüger's blog."Sleepwalking", an exhibition of recent work by Sebastian Krüger, May 18 -September 1, 2013.Time: Friday - Sunday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Museum im Kleihues BauStuttgarter Straße 9370806...
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Albert Chartier inducted in "The Giants of the North" Hall of Fame
Quebec cartoonist Albert Chartier was inducted Saturday in "The Giants of the North" Hall of Fame at the Doug Wright Awards in Toronto. Here is the medal and parchment that will be presented to his...
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Magazine Reworks Mike Peters Anti-NRA Cartoon to Pro-NRA
lan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.The pro-gun news web site Ammoland did a bit of Photoshopping recently to recreate a Mike Petersanti-NRA editorial cartoon into one with the exact opposite message...
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Editorial Cartoonists Are Toast at Postmedia
Paul Godfrey is CEO of Postmedia Networks and chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation After Roy Peterson (Vancouver Sun), Vance Rodewalt (Calgary Herald), Dan Murphy and Bob Krieger...
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Complete Autographed Calvin and Hobbes
Alan Gardner on The Daily Cartoonist blog.So you couldn’t afford an original Bill Watterson oil painting of Cul de Sac character Petey, or any of the two original strips that went to auction earlier...
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Cartoon of the week (24)
Viewed 280 times on Twitpic.Toronto mayor Rob Ford is allegedly seen smoking crack on a video that the website Gawker is raising funds to purchase from the Somali dope dealers who filmed it.
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Drawn 2005-2013
John Martz on Drawn.Drawn in 2005.2005Have you heard of these things called blogs? Blogging wasn’t new in 2005, but it was still a niche hobby for the technologically minded. I had been maintaining a...
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A Fine Line: The Caricatures of Anthony Jenkins
Nestlings Press, run by Globe & Mail columnist and Portfoolio 23, Portfoolio 24 and Portfoolio 25 editor Warren Clements, has two excellent new offerings by Anthony Jenkins and Philip Street.A Fine...
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When Tom Met Alison: A Fisher Collection
Nestlings Press, run by Globe & Mail columnist and Portfoolio 23, Portfoolio 24 and Portfoolio 25 editor Warren Clements, has two excellent new offerings by Anthony Jenkins and Philip Street.When...
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Iranian Cartoonist Kianoush Ramezani on Three Kinds of Cartoons
From Sampsonia Way.In 2009, following Iran’s controversial election, many Iranians took to the streets and the web to voice their dissatisfaction. One of those who participated was Kianoush Ramezani,...
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2013 Reuben Awards Winners
From the NCS website.The 67th Annual Reuben Awards dinner was held last night at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.This year’s winners:THE REUBEN AWARD for Outstanding Cartoonist...
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