Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Anne Hambrock has started up a Kickstarter Project to help fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She tells me that a lot of her donors and sponsors have seen funding cuts and are unable to contribute this year. This new fundraiser will start April 19 and run through May 22. The goal is…
The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was last week. Here’s an radio interview featuring Tom Bancroft, Sandra Bell Lundy, Anne Hambrock, Paul Gilligan, John Hambrock, Michael Jantz, and Tom Richmond. Direct MP3 download. Paul has a small recap, Sandra has a lengthier one.
We’re less than a week out before the start of the Kenosha Cartoon Festival being spearheaded by Anne Hambrock. The festival grew out of an inquiry about brining John Read’s “One Fine Sunday” exhibit to Carthage College and Anne opted to build a festival around the exhibit. Current featured cartoonists invited to speak include MAD…
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the sign might have been when the streetlights came on, and it’s possible, since they were more likely set to a specific time rather than light actuated, which would have sent us straight home from the…
Yes, Columbus is the place to be, but outside Ohio there is also news. © Nidhi Chanani; Peter Conrad; MariNaomi The San Francisco Examiner has partnered with Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum. Twice each month, The Examiner’s Comix Showcase will highlight the art and artists of the Bay Area, with an emphasis on…
Bill Bramhall depicts the Fourth of July in the New Normal, in which we can’t always distinguish the traditional fireworks from the new tradition of killing each other. My favorite part of the cartoon is that she’s only moderately concerned; it’s not like she’s leaping from the couch or he’s poised at the window. Maybe…
Twenty-five years ago Jim Scancarelli‘s Gasoline Alley mentioned comics characters looking funny. And the comics did look off-model that day – ’cause it was April 1, 1997. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times hedder: Today is the silver anniversary of The Great Comics Switcheroonie of 1997. A Scripps Howard article explained what was happening to a confused…
This Ink Pen (AMS) was the first strip featured on Comic Strip of the Day, back on February 6, 2010, which you will, by a simple arithmetical process, easily discover was not 11 years ago today. However, today is the day I can get my car in for inspection and a new sticker at 8…
Mike Smith (KFS) makes his own State of the Union report. There are empty store shelves all around the world. Covid continues to hit a whole lot of countries. You can’t blame everything on The Guy in the White House. Not even the weather. And, for that matter, he’s not the guy standing in the…
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sets the mood for the day. Rat seems to have caught on to the fact that confrontation simply doesn’t work in a world in which team loyalty is more important than logic. Pat Byrnes (Cagle) is right: The current crop of Republicans would absolutely reject Abraham Lincoln’s stances, though they’re…
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity. It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth. Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic…
From Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s new Paper Trends installment: Since we started this survey one thing has remained constant: when an NEA strip is cancelled and the syndicate replaces it with a new strip, that new strip will have fewer papers than the cancelled strip. © UFS In 1985 we have the opposite; Levy’s Law was cancelled…
John Hambrock is nearing 15 years of creating The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. Edison Lee — a 10-year-old with a talent for science and an urge to push boundaries — takes an optimistic view of the world. And, after 15 years of writing a daily comic strip, so does Edison’s creator, John Hambrock. “I…
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday. It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but…
“Truth and Illusion, George. You don’t know the difference.” “No, but we must carry on as though we did.” “Amen.” — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I was delighted to see Jen Sorensen address the stereotype…