Back in the late 2007, I began a feature called, “The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists” – a tribute feature where a notable cartoonist is invited to share with The Daily Cartoonist readers the cartoonists (or artists) that they feel have had an impact on their work or whose work they admire. Think of it as a celebrity […]
Dan’s website Dan’s blog Follow Dan on Twitter Find Bizarro books at Amazon News Coverage Download his Bizarro app from the App Store With the return of the Cartoonist’s Cartoonists feature, I could think of no better person to kick it off than this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]
Today King Features launches a new comic strip entitled Oh, Brother! by Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. and Emmy Award-winning creator of Secret Saturdays and Tutenstein Jay Stephens. Oh, Brother! is centered around a precocious younger brother, Bud, and a more sensible slightly older sister, Lily.From King’s announcement to their […]
The prolific Bill Holbrook offers a gag in On the Fastrack today that avoids being too geeky for most people to understand but is up several steps from the “what is this consarn newfangled thing?” level. I think there’s a large number of people who, like me, know when the brakes on the car need […]
(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)She works in space, but talks about time.Bunny Hoest operates under very specific rules in writing “The Lockhorns.” It’s one panel with a set cast of two and only a very small supporting cast.In addition, there […]
Slashfilm is reporting that John Lasseter has been brought in to bring Cars 2 back from a near crash. Summary of events below. Less then a week later Blue Sky reported a rumor the John Lasseter, director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug?s Life, Cars, and now the chief creative officer at Pixar […]
Ted Dawson notes over his blog that Joe Messerli has passed away at the age of 80. Ted writes: Joe Messerli was a rare talent. Several days ago I wrote that someone should interview this interesting man, as his career spanned several important decades and venues in cartooning, animation and design. Mr. Messerli was one […]
July 9 cannot come soon enough.
Tom Racine has posted this week’s Tall Tale Radio podcast with special guest Jerry Scott. Jerry collaborates with Jim Borgman on the strip Zits and with Rick Kirkman on Baby Blues.Tom writes: Fresh off his National Cartoonist Society win for “Best Newspaper Strip 2010,” Jerry Scott of “Zits” (and “Baby Blues”) joins me to talk […]
Technically, John Cole’s cartoon is from yesterday, but editorial cartoons tend to float a little bit in the distribution channel and I didn’t see it until last night. So it’s here today, in part because it’s a good drawing and I think he’s laid it out well, but mostly becauseA: It’s an incredibly appropriate gag […]
A cross selection of cartoonists have founded a new website called “The Cartoonist Studio” as a way to show off their work environment (and their work) and eventually sell stuff. The eight cartoonists are: Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Greg Evans (Luanne), Peter Guren (Ask Shagg), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Rick […]
Golden Age Comic book stories blog has posted several (by several I mean “a lot”) of Krazy Kat strips. As always, worth the time.Hat tip to Tom Spurgeon.
The famous Washington D.C. book store Politics and Prose was recently put up for sale and already the owners have been approached by about 20 interested buyers. Mr. Sagalyn said he and Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic and one of Mr. Sagalyn’s clients, have been in preliminary discussions with Ms. Meade and Ms. […]
Say that headline five times quickly!Comics Riff’s Michael Cavna has announced his comic contest has been whittled down to five. Finalists are: Hoxwinder Hall by Daniel Boris.Real Time by Bob ErskineForever Endeavor by Thomas MullanyStupid Inventor by Zachary SnyderImogen Quest by Olivia WalchThe final five now submit Sunday cartoons for a second round of voting […]
Some strips are more autobiographical, or perhaps self-referential, than others. It’s a dangerous game to play, because the more you base any work on personal experience, the more you risk a kind of slavish dependence on real events, and a tunnel vision about what it all means, that keep it from being universal. Which, in […]