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With Lalo Alcaraz, Peter Arno and Michael Maslin, Roz Chast, Jason Chatfield, Nate Powell, Joe Sacco and Patrick McDonnell.
Lalo Alcaraz is a Top 40
Feedspot lists the “Top 40 Socal Mexican Influencers in 2025” and Lalo Alcaraz makes the cut.
Bio CALÓ News Cartoonist, AMS, RFK 2025 winner, Herb Block 22, 2x Pulitzer finalist, ASU AIR, La Cucaracha (23yrs) screenwriter book author jefe-in-chief Instagram Handle @laloalcaraz1 Instagram Followers 80.7K Type Micro Gender Male Location Los Angeles, California, United States
Peter Arno, Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame
The Society of Illustrators 2025 Hall of Fame ceremony was held last Thursday night and Peter Arno biographer Michael Maslin was there to accept the award on behalf of the New Yorker cartoonist.
Peter Arno was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame last night in Manhattan at an awards ceremony that also included five other recipients.
I was honored to be asked to help induct Mr. Arno. Here’s what I had to say about him…
While at the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame – Roz Chast
Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has become one of the most distinctive artistic voices chronicling the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern life. The beloved cartoonist and illustrator brings her sharp observations and signature humor to the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m.
She lectures widely and has received numerous awards, including honorary degrees from Pratt Institute and the Art Institute of Boston, as well as the Reuben Award, Heinz Award, Visionary Woman Award, Best of Brooklyn Literary Award, and the first Thurber Prize in Cartoon Art. In addition, she has been inducted into the Society of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the recipient of a 2023 National Humanities Medal.
New Yorker Jason Chatfield Goes to Philadelphia
Behind the scene as Jason Chatfield describes his Philadelphia Eagles poster gig from start to finish.
When I moved to America from Australia, I never really adopted football as my sport. I went for baseball instead (it’s basically cricket with better uniforms and walk-out music), and I never settled on a team. Even though I live in New York, I didn’t follow the Giants. Or the Jets. Or the Chiefs—who, in my defence, I thought were a New York team for a solid six months.
So when the Philadelphia Eagles reached out and asked me to illustrate their game-day poster, I felt wildly unqualified. I can draw, sure. But I don’t exactly speak fluent football.
Still, Morris has expensive taste in kibble. So I said yes…
Nate Powell Talks
Brad Hundt at The Observer-Reporter sat in on Nate Powell‘s talk at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library.
Powell is perhaps best known for his work on “The March,” a series of three graphic novels on the Civil Rights Movement centering on the late congressman John Lewis. It won a National Book Award and widespread acclaim. But he has also put out a graphic adaptation of “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” the book by James Loewen that criticizes school textbooks and how history is taught, and several other graphic novels.
Patrick McDonnell Speaks
Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell has released a couple of new books, well one new and one reissue. Martin at Geek Vibes Nation interviewed Patrick about Mutts and the books.
PATRICK: I’m very enthused about this new book. Last Thanksgiving, my niece Erin suggested I should do a book called The Gift of Everything. We laughed at the idea at the time, but it stayed with me. Soon after, the story came to me in a flash, and in rhyme. Mooch searches for the perfect gift for his best friend Earl. This time, he finds it… everywhere. The book is about gratitude, abundance and sharing. I had a lot of fun creating the book, using color pencil to give the MUTTS characters a bit of a new look.
When I submitted the book to Little, Brown, they decided to create a new anniversary edition of The Gift of Nothing to come out on the same day.
The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco (excerpt)
The New Yorker features an exclusive excerpt from Joe Sacco‘s new reporting “The Once and Future Riot.” (Or here.)
The Maltese-born Joe Sacco is the rare cartoonist with a journalism degree (and, maybe just as rare, a cartoonist with masterful journalistic chops). Sacco’s latest book, “The Once and Future Riot,” coming out this month from Metropolitan Books, focusses on the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. The book uses the cartoonist’s tools—visual details, captions, balloons, maps, sequential narratives—to tell the story of Sacco’s own reporting…
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