Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher and Second City, an improv comedy company, have teamed up for a national tour entitled “The Art of Political Satire.” The show opens on April 21st in Atlanta and then moves to Durham North Carolina on the 24th and is described as a combination of “political improv and hands-on cartooning.” Other cities […]
Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, will the featured Cartoonist-in-residence at the Charles Schulz Museum on May 10th where visitors can see her work and talk with her about feature.Her feature is also featured in the current exhibit, “The Language of Lines: How Cartoonists Communicate.”
Ohio State Cartoon Research Library has announced that Jay Kennedy, the former King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief, who died last year has bequeathed his entire collection to the library. The collection has more than 9,500 items and is considered one of the most extensive collections of underground comics in the world. Regarding Jay’s collection, […]
Tony Rubino, co-creator of Daddy’s Home, is this week’s Meet the Comics Page guest over on the Washington Post web site. The chat begins at 1 p.m. EST.
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson was named this year’s Best Cartoonist by The Washington City Paper – a local best of for the Washington D.C. area.Regarding Richard, they write: Thompson is a local institution-in addition to scads of magazine work, his “Richard’s Poor Almanack” is one of the few things in the Saturday Post […]
The National Cartoonist Society Foundation has awarded scholarship money to two Minneapolis College of Art and Design students, Christina Beard and Evan Palmer. Christina is specializing in character and game design and Evan is studying to be a traditional comic book artist. Both students are seniors. Tom Richmond, who attended the college’s Annual Partners in […]
This Sunday, 17 cartoonists will join up their child characters to highlight April as Sexual Violence Awareness and National Child Abuse Prevention Month. On this day, Teresa Dowlatshahi’s Frog Applause will offer some sobering real-life statistics about abuse written in between the guest child characters. Like celebrities lending their names and faces to a good […]
The New York Comic-con is this weekend and there are many syndicated folks working the show. Here’s a run down of individuals and sessions of interest:Lee Nordling is moderating a panel entitled “Comic Strips for the 21st Century.” It is described as: Throughout the 20th Century, the comic strip rode the crest of newspaper readership […]
Just received word from Seattle Times editorial cartoonist Eric Devericks that his position within the newspaper has been spared from the staffing cut backs that were announced last week.
» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated.» The “Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” exhibit currently running at the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has been extended until May 18th.» Mike Witmer, who does the Pinkerton webcomic on gocomics.com has signed a publishing contract with […]
Executive Datebook Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Wiegand, has written a column about how his paper is trying to find a suitable replacement for the vacationing Doonesbury. They’ve been running Darrin Bell’s Candorville and have received mostly positive feedback. The feedback has also revealed other interesting opinions about Lio, which features readers want […]
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his pencil work on the Mighty Avengers comic book. Also nominated in the “Favourite Comic Artists: Pencils” include Bryan Hitch, Ethan Van Sciver, Frank Quitely and Thomas Boatwright.
9 Chickweed Lane cartoonist Brooke McEldowney will be releasing a new book this month entitled “Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The book, based on his webcomic Pibgorn and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream is 176 pages and the forward was written by Alan Dean Foster. During its original appearance online the cause of […]
RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best Animated Video of 2008 for its animation of New Yorker cartoons. Those cartoons run on RingTales’ site, The New Yorker and as an iTunes podcast which has generated over 24 million views. In the category […]
Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. The announcement comes one week after Michael was awarded this year’s Pulitzer.