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New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell comes to Boise
Boise Weekly spotlights Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell prior to her meet and greet at Pengilly’s Saloon.
Hilary Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, comedian and author whose latest project blends humor with vulnerability. Her newest graphic memoir, “The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love and Family,” was just released on Oct. 2.
Locals can celebrate with Campbell at a book signing and launch party from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at Pengilly’s Saloon. The event begins with a chance to meet the author, followed by “Hilary’s Honky Tonk Dance Break” featuring a burlesque performance by Muff Jones and concluding with an after-party with live music from Buddy Devore and The Faded Cowboys.
“The biggest joy you can have as a cartoonist is when somebody cuts it out and puts it on their fridge.”
Campbell still works with just pen and paper. Alongside cartooning, she discovered stand-up comedy in New York after a breakup pushed her to try the stage. She described it as one of the lowest points in her life, but when everyone laughed at her jokes — she got addicted.
The Center for Cartoon Studies (yes, cartoon) turns 20
Following Mike Peterson’s visit we have David Brooks for The Concord Monitor makes a visit.
The most unusual college in New England turns 20 this year. If it had been around a half-century ago I might well have attended.
The college is the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt., across the Connecticut River from Lebanon. It offers a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree, a couple of certificate programs and a host of shorter labs and workshops.
I might have attended CCS back in the day because my only job on my college newspaper was to draw the comic strip, spurred by dreams of creating the next “Doonesbury.” (Spoiler alert: That didn’t happen.) There was nothing odd back then moving between pen-and-ink work on a draftable table and keyboard clicking in the computer lab, and there’s nothing odd about having a geek/cartooning nexus today.
Cartoon College Turns 20, Alumni Still Explaining To Relatives What Graphic Novels Are
The CCS itself celebrates their anniversary. Too late for their exhibits opening but not for the exhibit itself.
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) celebrates its 20th anniversary with Founding Documents and Drawings: Marking 20 Years of CCS, 2005-2025, an exhibition of original art and prints that introduced the school to the world. From its first brochures to a one-of-a-kind diploma, the show features work by cartoonists Seth, Ivan Brunetti, Alison Bechdel, Alec Longstreth, and Laura Park, with a new brochure by Seth to mark the anniversary.
Join co-founders James Sturm and Michelle Ollie for the exhibition opening on Friday, October 3rd, from 4–8pm at the CCS Gallery in the Colodny Building, 94 South Main Street. Gallery hours: Fridays in October, 12–4pm, or by appointment at info@cartoonstudies.org
Lincoln Peirce, ‘Big Nate author,’ visits the 1932 Criterion Theatre
Big Nate cartoonist Lincoln Peirce visited Bar Harbor, Maine the other day and Isabella Wellman-Webster at the Mount Desert Islander reported on the appearance.
The 1932 Criterion Theater’s seats were packed with students from Conners Emerson School, Mount Desert Elementary and Pemetic Elementary who came to listen to “Big Nate” author Lincoln Peirce share his story of becoming a writer while showcasing his talents as a cartoonist on Friday, Sept. 25.
A CES student Otto Erlandsen reached out to Lincoln in late November 2024…
“The combination of words and pictures in a comic is my favorite way to tell a story,” said Peirce.
During his years studying art and art history at Colby College, Peirce created “Third Floor,” a weekly comic strip set in a school environment. He continued his education at Brooklyn College in New York, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art. From teaching art to coaching baseball in New York, Peirce pursued a career in 1991, when “Big Nate” was published.
Another Anniversary – Funny Times celebrates 40 years
Grant Segall for The Land notes Funny Times expanding into podcasting.
Forty years after Cleveland’s popular Funny Times debuted, its creators say that the times need mocking more than ever.
“Funny Times is newly relevant as the Trump presidency generates ever more shocking headlines to poke fun at,” says a press release honoring the anniversary and announcing the periodical’s first podcast, which debuts Oct. 3. “The left-leaning publication has always punched up.”
The Funny Times is one of the nation’s oldest surviving printed humor periodicals and, founders say, probably its most circulated, with about 45,000 subscribers. It has showcased many of the nation’s best-known humorists, some of whom have lived in Greater Cleveland, including Harvey Pekar, R. Crumb, Peter Kuper, Andy Borowitz and John “Derf” Backderf. The periodical has given early national exposure to popular creators such as writer Chuck Shepard of “News of the Weird.”
HOW ART SET MAD MAGAZINE FREE
David Apatoff appreciates Mort Drucker and credits him with turning around MAD magazine.
MAD started as a ten cent comic book, containing mostly silly spoofs of other comics or movies. It had an excellent collection of artists such as Davis, Wally Wood and Will Elder but its content remained mostly slapstick. MAD couldn’t graduate to a more challenging and relevant form of humor until it acquired a different kind of artistic talent– a talent capable of handling a wider range of facial expressions, psychological staging and body language, of cultural and political references.
Yeah, he’s talking about Mort Drucker.
Patrick McDonnell on ‘The Gift of Everything’: Gratitude, simplicity, and the magic of ‘MUTTS’
David Brooke at AIPT interviews Patrick McDonnell about cartooning and his new book.
With MUTTS, Patrick McDonnell has spent three decades capturing the quiet joys of life through that beloved comic strip (alongside a library of bestselling children’s books). On October 7, he revisits Mooch the cat and Earl the dog in The Gift of Everything, a follow-up to his classic The Gift of Nothing. Like its predecessor, the new picture book celebrates gratitude, friendship, and the beauty of simply being together.
“Krazy Kat, Jack Kirby, Charles Schulz gave me so much joy,” McDonell said. “The object is to try to give some of that back.”
With The Gift of Everything, McDonnell once again distills that joy into a story simple enough for children and profound enough for adults. “Give me something that I’ll remember,” he said with a laugh. In Mooch and Earl’s latest adventure, he’s done just that.
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