Bennett specializes in understatement, using bland illustrations that force the reader to fill in the meaning. It’s dangerous in that some readers have problems understanding even clearly stated messages, but you can dismiss that crowd for just that reason: They aren’t going to get it anyway.For those able to process subtlety, this type of messaging […]
This week saw Marshall Ramsey officially take on the writing chores of the Prickly City comic strip. From Prickly City creator Scott Stantis: The extremely talented and very nice Marshall Ramsey, the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is taking over Prickly City. It has been a grand 22 years, and I know I am leaving Carmen […]
The second day of the National Cartoonists Society’s 80th Annual Reuben Awards and Conference will culminate in, as an Oscar winner once said, the night of nights. But there are a couple activities before the show. Mostly for NCS members. From the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) newsletter: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7THFriday’s programming is all at our […]
Having deleted several cartoons, both strips and political, that referred to Dear Leader’s now-moribund slush fund, it was a surprise to find a case of coincidental timing that did apply to something in the news. Not that it’s all that encouraging, but these days you have to take whatever you can get. Enough politics: It’s […]
Sour Grapes is new at GoComics, sour grapes is an old story with newspapers, The Singh Brotherhood vexes the olde and the new Phantom, Henry Barajas presents good trouble, bad trouble for Scott Adams and revolutionary trouble with Sam Adams, MAD memories with John Ficarra and Gerry Gersten, and Keith Knight about That One Black […]
This Thursday cartoonists and illustrators will meet to commemorate the life of Chilean-Mexican cartoonist José Palomo who passed in March and attend the opening night of the Palomo: Papel, tinta y memoria (Palomo: Paper, ink and memory) exhibit.From Aristegui Noticias, cartoonist Arturo Kemchs, speaks of his friend: Palomo proved himself to be a comedic genius with […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s annual Reuben Conference. And he’s being recognized as one of “seven books you’ll never outgrow” and Ruben Bolling reports the honor for Boing Boing.The Atlantic’s Rafaela Jinich included Bone series in an article of Seven Books You’ll […]
Following the success of the softcover editions of The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comics 1977-1980 Clover Press is planning to release the next four years in four softcover volumes.The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comics 1980-1984 will be in the same format as the previous slipcased issues.From Clover Press: Between killer robots, Doctor Doom’s flying saucer, the rise […]
I’ve often observed here that it’s tough to do multi-panel political cartoons because the news rarely cooperates by producing enough examples to fit the format. Granted, Tom Tomorrow generally does better than average at it anyway, but here’s an example of the subject matter cooperating with plenty of material that only needed a clever twist […]
The rate at which the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is setting up and staging events indicates they are aiming for 80 celebratory gatherings during their 80th Annual Reuben Conference and Awards season. Many have already been held such as yesterday’s “studio visit with Bunny Hoest and John Reiner, co-creators of the beloved The Lockhorns,” which […]
The Daily Cartoonist wishes the wonderful cartoonist and caricaturist Gerald Scarfe a happy 90th birthday! Artist Gerald Scarfe, born on June 1, 1936, joins our Senior Strippers Club.From the Gerald Scarfe homepage: Born in London in 1936, Gerald’s career has spanned more than 60 years. He established himself as a satirical cartoonist working for Punch […]
This would normally raise questions about how benefits are adjudicated in New Zealand, which I’d probably dismiss as Not Of General Interest. Instead, however, it raises the question of how much of an aging nerd do you have to be to recognize Daleks?We used to occasionally catch Doctor Who on CJOH-Ottawa, but didn’t watch it […]
The news worthy cartoonists this round are Dan Martin, Dale Messick, Bret Juliano, and Alan Dunn. Dan Martin Lecture on St. Louis Cartoon History & Weatherbird Weatherbird cartoonist and St. Louis cartooning historian Dan Martin will expound on both next Sunday. By Tribune Staff • Join the Madison County Historical Society at 2 p.m. on […]
Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]
I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]