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Labor duo end decades-long cartoon collaboration | Post
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/labor-duo-end-decades-long-cartoon-collaboration/March 5, 2020- Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck recently announced their retirement after 37 years of drawing labor-centric cartoons for Union newspapers. https://nwlaborpress.org/2020/03/end-of-an-era-labor-cartoonists-say-farewell/ The pair was one of the few “teams” working in editorial cartooning today. The two met at the 1979 convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and began operating...
Joel Pett steps down as CRNI President; Matt Wuerker takes reins | Post
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/pett-steps-down-as-crni-president-wuerker-takes-reins/March 4, 2020- From the Cartoonists Rights Network International comes the following announcements: https://cartoonistsrights.org/crni-president-joel-pett-retires/ After some fifteen years in the role Joel Pett—multi-award winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald Leader—has decided to retire from the Presidency of Cartoonists Rights Network International’s board of directors. Cartoonists from across the world can attest...
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https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/hot-cartoonist-on-cartoonist-action-in-new-book-on-canadian-cartoonist/March 27, 2020- Canadian cartoonist Terry Mosher (better known by his pen name Aislin) has written a new book on Duncan Macpherson, one of the best cartoonists to come out of Canada in the 20th Century. “Professional Heckler” is the first biography of Macpherson, “a formidable and groundbreaking artist, he was also an alcoholic who...
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https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-does-the-two-step/March 6, 2020- Whoa nelly — Tom the Dancing Bug is turning 30 this year! In celebration, cartoonist Ruben Bolling (aka Ken Fisher) is releasing not one but TWO topical collections of his alt-weekly comic strip. “Into the Trumpverse” collects his Donald-centric cartoons from 2016-2019, while “The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader” gathers together every...
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https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/matt-bors-thinks-you-should-improve-your-bookshelf-somewhat/February 28, 2020- Cartoonist and publisher of The Nib, Matt Bors has announced a new collection of his political commentary. “We Should Improve Society Somewhat” drops in April 2020 and offers a survey of  “our current dystopian hellscape.” From the press release: “Working as a political cartoonist for more than a decade, Bors’...
Call for Entries: 20th International Editorial Cartoon Competition | Post
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/call-for-entries-20th-international-editorial-cartoon-competition/February 18, 2020- Guy Badeaux has put out the call for entries for the  20th International Editorial Cartoon Competition. The deadline to enter is Friday, March 27, 2020. Here are the complete rules and regulations: 1. The theme for the 20th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is: “Pulling the plug on social media”  After...
CALL FOR ENTRIES: The 2020 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning | Post
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/call-for-entries-the-2020-rex-babin-memorial-award-for-excellence-in-local-cartooning/February 14, 2020- Wow, where does the time go? It seems like we just gave this award to Baltimore’s KAL Kallaugher… oh wait, we did. Due to the schedule change of this year’s AAEC Convention (moving the date up to the Spring so we can team-up with the Canadians), it has been decided...
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https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/chappatte-drops-new-book-about-being-dropped-by-the-nytimes/February 7, 2020- 2020 is looking to be a banner year for cartoonists publishing books, so if you have something coming out, let us know. We’ll be posting a Book Nook on the news feed here on Fridays when there’s a release. First up: Remember when Patrick Chappatte got canned by the New...
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https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/all-the-interviews-that-are-fit-to-print/January 31, 2020- While the newspaper industry continues to flee in terror from, umm, editorial cartoons, there is no shortage of media outlets that want to interview cartoonists. Here are all the links and articles that appeared online in January. First up WJTV on the prolific Marshall Ramsey: https://www.wjtv.com/news/focused-on-mississippi-marshall-ramsey-he-draws-his-own-conclusions/ Next, Cap Radio talks...
NPR turns attack from Pompeo into a cartoon tote bag | Post
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/npr-turns-attack-from-pompeo-into-a-cartoon-tote-bag/January 28, 2020- Cartoonist Gary Huck is reporting at least one good thing came out the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional attack on the First Amendment and NPR journalist Mary Louise Kelly. A cartoon Huck did over the weekend went viral on Facebook and was seen by the reporter and other National Public Radio producers...
