Editorial Cartoonists

There But For (a $5.4 Billion) Fortune

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Astor

Here's the tale of a New Jersey newspaper that lost a reader after publishing the net worth of a man so filthy rich he needs a shoe stretcher for his wallet.

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Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Dies At 86

AP | ANDREW DALTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Pulitzer Winner Mark Fiore's iPhone Cartoon App Rejected Because It 'Ridicules Public Figures'

niemanlab.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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But there's just one problem. In December, Apple rejected his iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire "ridicules public figures," ...

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Bill Mauldin Stamp

Jonathan Richards | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Richards

Bill Mauldin, the great cartoonist of WWII and many points beyond, finally lands on a stamp. Well, they never could lick him when he was alive....

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Editorial Cartoonists Angry At David Gregory, 'Meet The Press' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Does 'Meet the Press' host David Gregory love cartoons but hate cartoonists?" editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe wrote Monday. "It sounds ridiculous, bu...

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Why People Laugh at Comedians and Not Political Cartoons

August J. Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011

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August J. Pollak

A quick lesson in how quality is rewarded.

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Chicago Tribune Hires Scott Stantis As Editorial Cartoonist

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bucking a trend in newspapers in which editorial cartoonists have become something of an endangered species, the Chicago Tribune has hired Birmingham ...

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Nine Worst Obama Cartoons

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the most part, America's editorial cartoonists have gotten better at drawing Obama over the last year. They're no longer depicting him as a generi...

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Do Cartoonists Have Special Rules For Drawing Obama, Clinton?

The Courier-Journal | Pam Platt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Super Tuesday may have clarified things a little for Republicans, but it did nothing to tip the delegate scales decisively toward either Hillary Rodha...

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