Paul Conrad

Political cartoons have infuriated kings, crooks and captains of industry since the days of the penny press in 19th century England. In a new video produced by two talented Los Angeles Times staffers, Armand Emamdjomeh and Don Kelsen, I describe how I carry on this satirical tradition in a world of iPads and online news. Please check it out . One thing I may not have stressed enough in the video is the work that comes before dreaming up ideas and doing drawings. I learned about that early from one of the masters, Paul Conrad.

Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war "Chain Reaction" sculpture in Santa Monica is out from under a cloud -- at least temporarily. The City Council voted Tuesday night to authorize funds to patch and secure the deteriorated sculpture and agreed to give admirers until Feb. 1, 2014, to raise funds to rebuild it. "We've now got the city on board with us," said David Conrad, son of the late sculptor and political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times....

A public memorial service for Paul Conrad, the Times editorial cartoonist who died Saturday at 86, is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Fisher Catholic Church, 5448 Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes.

"Chain Reaction," a sculpture by the late Paul Conrad, has been an object of contention among officials in Santa Monica for months. The city's arts commission has recommended the removal of the 26-foot-tall sculpture, citing safety concerns. The artwork is located outdoors near the Civic Center. To raise money to save the sculpture, Santa Monica Auctions said it will be auctioning off two other Paul Conrad pieces. Organizers said they will donate 100% of the hammer price to the Santa Monica Arts Foundation for the restoration of "Chain Reaction.

"Chain Reaction," the anti-nuclear weapons sculpture by the late Paul Conrad, has received landmark status from Santa Monica's Landmarks Commission. The group voted unanimously on the designation late Monday at its monthly meeting. Monday's decision "provides a level of protection for the sculpture, but there are still opportunities [for the city] to relocate it," Scott Albright of the commission said in an interview. He said that future efforts to remove Conrad's sculpture would be reviewed by the commission.

As a result of its popularity, "Conrad: Thirty Years on the Front Lines," an exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center, has been extended through Aug. 29. The show (originally scheduled to close Aug. 15) features works by Paul Conrad, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who recently retired from The Times. Conrad will be at the museum center today, delivering a lecture at 1 p.m. and signing copies of his fifth book, "Conartist," from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Paul Conrad, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times since 1964, will retire from the newspaper on March 31. Conrad, 68, will continue to have his cartoons distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. His cartoons will appear twice a week in The Times, which will also continue to carry the work of a variety of other editorial cartoonists. While on the Times staff, Conrad was awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 1971 and 1984.

Those were the days Re "A positive border image," Column, Sept. 3 Hector Tobar's column brought back memories of my mother and father, who were from Juarez but lived and worked in El Paso. I was born and raised in El Paso too. Thank you for the article, especially at this time in my life. I remember crossing over to get a haircut and going with my dad to the dentist in Juarez. Back then you just waved at the border officers on duty. Rigoberto Vasquez Rancho Cucamonga I read your wonderful article on the easy crossings between Ciudad Juarez and my hometown.

Paul Conrad, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist whose work has outraged and delighted readers of The Times for the past 30 years, has donated his archive to the Huntington Library in San Marino. The gift consists of several thousand drawings and sketches for cartoons, created over the course of Conrad's career at the newspaper, from 1964 to the present. Subjects of the cartoons include U.S.

Paul Conrad, whose fiercely confrontational editorial cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and who helped push the Los Angeles Times to national prominence, has died. He was 86. Conrad died early Saturday of natural causes, surrounded by his family at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, said his son David. With an unyielding liberal stance rendered in savage black and white, Conrad both thrilled and infuriated readers for more than 50 years.

"Chain Reaction," the anti-nuclear weapons sculpture by the late Paul Conrad, has received landmark status from Santa Monica's Landmarks Commission. The group voted unanimously on the designation late Monday at its monthly meeting. Monday's decision "provides a level of protection for the sculpture, but there are still opportunities [for the city] to relocate it," Scott Albright of the commission said in an interview. He said that future efforts to remove Conrad's sculpture would be reviewed by the commission.

Political cartoons have infuriated kings, crooks and captains of industry since the days of the penny press in 19th century England. In a new video produced by two talented Los Angeles Times staffers, Armand Emamdjomeh and Don Kelsen, I describe how I carry on this satirical tradition in a world of iPads and online news. Please check it out . One thing I may not have stressed enough in the video is the work that comes before dreaming up ideas and doing drawings. I learned about that early from one of the masters, Paul Conrad.

A cloud hangs over cartoonist Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica. Faced with having to raise as much as $423,000 to repair the two-decade-old "Chain Reaction," city staffers have instead advised spending $20,000 to remove it. After hearing from activists eager to preserve the Civic Auditorium sculpture, the city's Arts Commission has recommended that the City Council vote to remove, or "deaccession," the work - ...

Cartoonist Paul Conrad would probably draw pleasure from the newest fallout surrounding his anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica. Two decades after its controversial placement in their downtown Civic Center, city officials worry that the stylistic mushroom-cloud artwork depicting the horror of atomic warfare is falling apart. Exposure to salt air has caused the sculpture's fiberglass base to deteriorate, loosening some of the fasteners that hold the intertwined chains that form the 26-foot mushroom cloud.

First, a personal note. My condolences to the family of former Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad, a true giant of our ink-stained trade. Paul never shied from speaking his mind; he was widely admired, deservedly decorated and will be long missed. On to the cartoons. Last week, I showcased American cartoonists' reaction to the drawdown in Iraq. Now, some views from the rest of the world. Paresh Nath, of the United Arab Emirates, connected the economic dots. Israel's Moshik Lin rolled out a defeatist attitude.

Those were the days Re "A positive border image," Column, Sept. 3 Hector Tobar's column brought back memories of my mother and father, who were from Juarez but lived and worked in El Paso. I was born and raised in El Paso too. Thank you for the article, especially at this time in my life. I remember crossing over to get a haircut and going with my dad to the dentist in Juarez. Back then you just waved at the border officers on duty. Rigoberto Vasquez Rancho Cucamonga I read your wonderful article on the easy crossings between Ciudad Juarez and my hometown.

He never lost his sense of outrage. My friend Paul Conrad, who died Saturday at 86, was the premier editorial cartoonist of his generation and, for many years, this newspaper's most visible public face. Outrage informed his journalism and animated his art. He woke up each morning angry about some new injustice and allowed sleep to overtake him each night only so that he could get up mad the next day and do it all again. He was always and everywhere on the side of decency and ordinary men and women.

A public memorial service for Paul Conrad, the Times editorial cartoonist who died Saturday at 86, is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Fisher Catholic Church, 5448 Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes.

He never lost his sense of outrage. My friend Paul Conrad, who died Saturday at 86, was the premier editorial cartoonist of his generation and, for many years, this newspaper's most visible public face. Outrage informed his journalism and animated his art. He woke up each morning angry about some new injustice and allowed sleep to overtake him each night only so that he could get up mad the next day and do it all again. He was always and everywhere on the side of decency and ordinary men and women.