Showing posts with label Daily Cartoonist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Cartoonist. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Hannah Good to edit comics pages & Daily Cartoonist adds to WaPo buyout news

Michael Cavna tells me that Hannah Good is staying at the Post and will be taking over David Betancourt's comics page editing duties. She's been good for the WaPo's cartoon journalism this past year, so I'm very glad she's staying.

Here's her Post page info:

Headshot of Hannah Good

Hannah Good

Washington, D.C.

Education: Western Kentucky University, BA in English

Hannah Good is a Designer curating comics journalism and illustrated reporting with teams around the newsroom. She's also an illustrator and comic artist who has worked with HarperCollins Publishers, Apple TV+, Barnes and Noble and the BLINK art festival. Previously, she was an Opportunity Fellow on the Next Generation Audience Development team focused on comics and a social producer and comics editor for The Lily. Before joining The Post, she was a social media producer at Washingtonian Magazine. She's a proud graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Talisman magazine.

In the meantime, DD Degg has dug deeper into the WaPo's latest "shrinking to greatness" moment so I don't have to.

But for the record, of the Style and Metro staff, my current tally of departures is: Cavna, Betancourt, exhibit reviewer Marc Fisher, media reporter Paul Farhi, theater critic Peter Marks and Metro's John Kelly and Courtland Milloy. Editors Jeff Leen, Sydney Trent and Lynda Robinson are going. Hank Stuever is staying as an editor for Style. As I've noted to a few people, owner Jeff Bezos could literally pay everyone in America to write for the paper without really noticing.
 
Updated: My friend Lisa's colleague Ann Maloney is also leaving the Food section. 

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Right-wing cartoonist Michael Ramirez joins WaPo on contract?

He's apparently joined Telnaes, de Adder, Pritchett and Rosen on contract? Is this being driven by owner Bezos who's eased out publisher Ryan by creating a job for him last week? Ramirez is definitely not in the tradition of Herblock and Toles, who were independent parts of the editorial team staff. And they have 5 cartoonists on contract, AFTER they terminated their syndicate, the WPWG, this year?


Anyway, read DD on the facts, not my speculation.

Michael Ramirez Has a Wash. Post Gig?

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Post censoring of Opus attracts cartoonist's comments

I put the story up last week, and so did Alan Gardener at his Daily Cartoonist site. The difference between his site and mine is that he gets comments from cartoonists, including Mat Bors, Milt Priggee, Ted Rall, Wiley Miller and Rick Stromoski. They're a tough audience apparently.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Watterson on Cul de Sac

Alan Gardener and Dave Astor noted that Bill Watterson's written an intro to Our Man Thompson's Cul de Sac collection coming out in September. See "Coup for 'Cul de Sac' Book: Reclusive 'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Writes the Foreword," E&P June 19, 2008.

Richard noted to me that you can read it on Amazon in their look inside the book feature. Personally I'm waiting until I buy a copy. Anti - ci - pa - tion, as they said in Rocky Horror.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

OT: Allan Holtz's Strippers Guide

On his Daily Cartoonist site, Alan Gardner put a link to Allan Holtz's Strippers Guide project. For years, Allan's been doing research on comic strips and in the 1990s he had a subscription cd service where you could buy a cd of his research. It was a great resource and I'm glad to see an update is going to be coming along. Click on the video and let him know what you think. Nobody has more information on obscure strips than Allan and I still use the earlier version regularly.