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 (Vancouver Province), Cameron Cardow (Ottawa Citizen) is the latest editorial cartoonist to lose his staff position at a Postmedia daily newspaper.

UPDATE: Paul Godfrey was fired Thursday as chairman of the OLG board by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

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 and posted it on Facebook.

Here’s Mike’s original cartoon:

And the blatant rework:

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 family.

Here is a sample of his work:

Wold Press Cartoon on Euronews

"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 Bau
Stuttgarter Straße 93
70806 Kornwestheim
Germany

Steve Brodner and the Sad Reality of Gun Control

From Vanity Fair:

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" from comic artists like Irv Novick, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, John Romita and Joe Kubert, who received no fee or credit.

Is this an act of brilliant recontexturalisation? The elevation of commercial "low" art to "high" art? Art world snobbery? Artistic licence? Cultural annexation? Gallery shortsightedness? Or something else?

The Image Duplicator Show, May 16 - 31 (a week pre and post the end of the Tate's Lichtenstein show) at the Orbital Gallery, Leicester Square, London gives a chance for real comic-book artists (and other "commercial artists" - illustrators, designers etc) to ask these kinds of questions and share their views, via their work.