Cartoonists

Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Ernest Hemingway, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, France, Cartoonists, Isaac Asimov, Novels, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Paul Cezanne, Mark Twain, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles M. Schulz, Books News
Dave Astor

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

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I Could Write a Book About My Book Ordeal!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Newspaper Syndication, Malpractice, Publishing, Newspapers, Celebrity Memoirs, Cats, Cartoonists, Memoirs, Politicians, Columnists, Libraries, Small Publishers, Literary Agents, Entertainers, Celebrities, Getting Published, Books News
Dave Astor

Celebrity entertainers and politicians have no problem getting their memoirs published. So a book partly about celebrity entertainers and politicians should have had no problem getting published, right?

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Limbaugh Cartoonists

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Cartoonists, Political-Cartooon, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Limbaugh Advertisers, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Media News
Jeff Danziger

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Behind the Scenes With New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byrnes

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: New Yorker Magazine, Cartoons, Cartoon, Pat Brynes, Pat Byrnes Cartoons, Cartoon Humor, New Yorker Cartoons, Cartooning, Cartoonists, Cartoon Process, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

As a cartoonist, one can't aspire any higher than the New Yorker. So it was very exciting to sit down with New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes in his home studio.

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Celebrate Father's Day With Comic Strip Dads

Kate Kelly | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Cartoonists, Blondie, Comic Strips, For Better or for Worse, Gasoline Alley, Dennis the Menace, Dagwood, Media News
Kate Kelly

As Father's Day nears, I decided to take a look back at some comic strip fathers to see how dads have been depicted over time.

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Cartoonist Releases Graphic Memoir Of Prostitution

npr.org | By Glen Weldon | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Npr, Cartoonists, Chester Brown, Memoirs, Paying for It, Graphic Novels, Books News

It's not that getting dumped by his girlfriend soured Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown on the notion of romantic love, exactly. Because to sour on so...

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Santa and the Cartoonist

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Cartoonists, Santa, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Dies At 86

AP | ANDREW DALTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Conrad Cartoons, Editorial Cartoonists, Cartoonists, Political Cartoonists, Paul Conrad, Media News

LOS ANGELES — For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Ha...

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A Canary in Democracy's Coal Mine

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cartoonists, Political Cartoon, Conrad, Editorial Cartoons, Paul Conrad, LA Times, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Media News
Jeffrey Abelson

Long before Jon Stewart regaled us with his deliciously crafted imagery to make sharply pointed political statements, a posse of fearless editorial cartoonists did much the same thing.

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Cartoonists "Bending Over Backwards," Struggling To Draw Obama

AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cartoons, Obama Cartoons, Cartoonists, Cartoonists Obama, Media News

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz was in front of a classroom full of black and Latino kids, drawing presidents. He sketched Bush, then Clinton. Next came his f...

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