I posted news earlier about Clay Bennett winning this year’s Lurie Award. I hadn’t seen his winning cartoon before today and thought there had to be a story behind it, so I pinged Clay to see if there was. Sure enough there is. A good example of serendipity mixed with deadline pressure.Here’s what he told […]
The 2011 Lurie UN Award has been announced with Chattanooga Times Free Press’ Clay Bennett taking the top honor (see his cartoon below).Taking second and third are Rick McKee (The Augusta Chronicle) and David Pope (The Canberra Times) respectively. American editorial cartoonist who were given Citations of Excellence included Jimmy Margulies, Robert Ariail, and Ed […]
Giving evidence that bad news comes in threes: Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America with Jack Kirby, has passed away at age 98. From AP News:For Timely, the duo created Captain America, debuting on the cover of “Captain America Comics” No. 1 with the champion of liberty throwing a solid right-hook at Adolf Hitler in […]
Rina Piccolo regarding applying logic to humor:And my message, if you haven’t gotten it by now, is pretty simple: We should interpret entertainment – in all it’s forms – in the spirit in which it was created. In other words, Hey you, Smarty-Panties, get your logical heads out of your asses and have some fun!Wonderful […]
From Crave Online:No, this isn’t an officiall sanctioned Calvin & Hobbes movie, like so many rumors have foretold, but it’s extremely cool nonetheless. Jim Frommeyer and visual effects artist Teague Chrystie (Feast III: The Happy Finish) have just released their short film A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas. It’s a loving homage to the classic […]
Eduardo Barreto, the former artist for the Judge Parker serial comic strip has passed away at the age of 57. He took over Judge Parker from Harold LeDoux in 2006 but had to end his association with the strip in 2010 after contracting meningitis. Previous to Judge Parker, he worked on several comic books such […]
Jeff Danziger needs to go on my list of cartoonists who would be here all the time if I didn’t pay attention.But this panel has some eternal truth to it, as well as some new truths and some things we really need to think about for the future but probably won’t.To start with, the Folks […]