Top 20 Rejects of 2007: #20

The Journal Star had a seven part series called “What I Believe,” which featured a random person each day and talked about what their essential beliefs were toward life, spirituality and society. This was my contribution, which was rejected on the notion that it was probably not best to poke fun at the people who […]

Starting tomorrow…

…will be the countdown of my Top 20 Rejected Cartoon Ideas of 2007. I’ve gone through all the sketches I’ve accumulated over the past year, looking at every reject, laughing along at those I wish would’ve run and those that thankfully didn’t, and chosen my 20 favorites. Starting tomorrow, I’ll count down to my absolute […]

The cartooning response

I was wondering if the cartoonists of the world would respond to the Omaha killings in the way they did to the Virginia Tech shootings. It may have only been nine dead, but I was still surprised that only Omaha’s Jeff Koterba cartooned about it.

Nine dead

What do you say when something like this happens? My wife texted me shortly after 2pm today, telling me there had been a shooting at Westroads. My immediate thought was that it was some dispute gone bad. It wasn’t until going online that I started getting a hint of how big it was. Omaha.com, the […]

Big Union-Tribune cuts…cartoonist implications?

Don Bauder first reported it last Friday, when only 15 to 20 positions were going to be cut, but now it’s official: the San Diego Union-Tribune has announced a massive buyout plan, with 43 newsroom positions and more throughout the company targeted. As Bauder reports, The plan is called “voluntary separation program,” or VSP, but […]