The annual International Society of Caricature Artist’s convention is set for November 13-18 i Clearwater FL.From MAD Magazine cartoonist and The Mad Art of Caricature author Tom Richmond:About 200 professional caricaturists, ranging from party artists to illustrators to sculptors to animators, descend on the unsuspecting host resort for 5 days. They spend their time drawing […]
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond recently released his new book The Mad Art of Caricature!. It’s a great book that I highly recommend you check it out and buy. A notable book like this certainly could have found a print publisher, but Tom opted to explore and publish through self-publishing. He posted […]
Misery Loves Sherman creator (and Eisner and Harvey award nominee) Chris Eliopoulos has penned (or typed) a must read for anyone working their way up in the comic industry. The topic – not how to break into comics, but how to stay.If you’re good enough, you’re not good enough. I hear so many people wanting […]
I watched and waited all last week for any updates regarding the accusations that Urban Tulsa cartoonist David Simpson had blatantly plagiarized a Jeff MacNelly editorial cartoon. No emails were returned, no notices posted on their website or twitter account that they even acknowledged being aware of any “WTF?” from anyone from Poynter on down […]
Halloween should be a dream for cartoonists, but, while the graphic potential is high, there are only so many gags: Parents eat the candy, kids try to amass great quantities of candy, kids eat too much candy, etc. And then each year, there is something trendy to work into the strips — bankers and OWS […]
Today’s Pat Oliphant cartoon puts me in mind of a story I’ve probably told here before, but am about to tell again.In the mid-to-late 1970s sometime, my then-wife and I were visiting my grandfather, an archetypal product of the American dream who had worked his way up from the mines to the executive offices. We […]
Pab Sungenis combines cultural literacy with demented foolishness on a level I really appreciate, and today’s “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” is the conclusion of a short arc shoving a stick into the spokes of that nonsensical movie, “Anonymous,” which probes the theory that William Shakespeare was actually born in Kenya.Or something.I don’t particularly […]
My Cage creators Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power will be producing a graphic novel called Santa vs Dracula and is soliciting donations through Kickstarter. Here’s their description: ‘Santa vs Dracula’ is full color graphic novel about Count Dracula invading Santa Claus’s workshop with an army of monsters (Frankenstein’s Monster, Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, the Wicked […]
Cory Doctrow over at Boing Boing writes about a new collection of lost, unpublished or early work for Dr. Suess that was recently released. The book is entitled, “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories“. Cory writes:The publication of a new Seuss collection is reason to celebrate in and of itself, and Bippolo Seed is […]
Michael Cavna talks to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about this year’s Cartoon Edition.Mankoff is describing the behind-the-scenes process of culling and curating The New Yorker’s annual Cartoon Issue (now on newstands and online). The issue offers not only an A-list collection of “funnies,” but also featured cartoons by such top talent as Barry […]
Based on Dr. Suess’ book (or as they call it “the imagination of Dr. Suess’”) The Lorax comes an animated movie from the creators of Despicable Me.Starring the voice talent of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle and Betty White and hits theaters on March 2nd.
Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, who was kidnapped and his hands beaten by Syrian security forces to intimidate him, was awarded the European parliament’s Sakharov prize which is awarded to campaigners of freedom. Ali dedicated the honor to “martyrs of freedom.”Ali quoted by The Daily Star:“I share this award with all who are deprived of freedom […]
The Times-Picayune has a nice write-up on the history of their staff editorial cartoonists since 1896. They’ve also posted a slideshow featuring the cartoonists and some of their cartoons. Luckovich’s early stuff looks a lot like Dick Lochers. Well worth a few minutes of your time. In chronological order: Louis A. Winterhalder, W.K. Patrick, John […]
Zach Weiner calls today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal “a bit of an homage (to) the great Quino,” which perhaps means it’s a conceptual rip off, but, since I don’t read a lot of Argentine comics, I don’t know how much it’s based on something specific versus being based on Quino’s general pacing in his silent […]
South by South West (SXSW), the media, interactive and music festival in Austin Texas, has announced the panels for this upcoming conference and includes two panels. The first is entitled “How Comics Journalism is Saving Your Media” and will feature two comic journalists Matt Bors and Susie Cagle along with Sarah Jaffe and Erin Polgreen. […]