MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is self publishing a new book entitled, “The Mad Art of Caricature!.” The book is 170+ pages and contains hundreds of illustrations, step-by-step techniques, tips, and in-depth theories on the art caricature. Book ships in September, but he’s taking pre-orders now with options of signed copies, copies with original art […]
The World has posted a slideshow of a female Egyptian editorial cartoonist Doaa Eladl. The editorial cartooning community is largely male dominated and women in the field are even more rare in the Middle East.Visit the slideshow.Hat Tip: Mike Rhode
A commission with a really, really long name (“Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities”) has taken issue with Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) continued use of a shower head drawn above South Africa President Jacob Zuma. The group calls it “culturally, religiously and linguistically unprecedented to attack […]
PC & Pixel is featured today based on a very simple rule: You don’t get points for a cartoon that I have to stare at while I figure it out. But you get megapoints if I bust up laughing when I finally recognize the gag.Now I’m reluctant to comment directly because maybe you’re going … […]
Heritage Auctions is selling of an original Spider-Man #49 Cover Art by John Romita Sr. and expects to bring $100,000 or more when it hits the auction block this August.The cover was originally written in 1967 and features Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture.Current bidding is at $60,000.
The new Captain America movie opens up this weekend. Jennifer Moline over at Inspiredology has posted 17 artistic interpretations of the Captain America character. Here’s one of my favorites from the list by Chris Uminga.Other include: Olly Moss, Tyler Stout, pnutink, Skottie Young, Konjour, Mattia Sensi, John Drogalis, Eric Tan, Ed Foychuk, Danny Wake, “wlkr”, […]
This past Christmas, I gave my older son, a Gulf veteran, a copy of “War is Boring,” the graphic memoir about the compelling addiction of covering armed conflicts, done by war correspondent David Axe and cartoonist Matt Bors. He took a while to pick it up and then reported that, while he liked it very […]
From the Wall Street Journal:Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for Tuesday amid the dearth of bids. It said it would ask a judge Thursday to approve a sale […]
Vic Lee touches on a pet peeve with only a little bit of exaggeration in today’s “Pardon My Planet.”It’s nearly impossible to defend spanking, though most parents’s feelings on the topic are similar to the old Irish saying about fairies: “I don’t believe in them, but they’re there.”Anyone who believes in spankings is a barbarian. […]
title: Bill Kellogg launches ComicsShowcase.comBill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy behind Tundra and the new Ink Bottle Syndicate has launched a new website called ComicsShowcase.com “where comics fans can go to view strips they might not otherwise see.” Bill writes, [Comics Showcase] is different from the other sites like Comics Sherpa, etc. in that the cartoonists […]
Alex Hallatt is using her strip Arctic Circle to bring attention to the environmental issue of fracking. Fracking is the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas which is then collected. Environmentalists are concerned that the process is contaminating water and causing other […]
This year’s John Locher memorial award went to JR Fruto at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. JR is a senior at the university where he is the cartoonist for the paper Daily Tar Heel. As the winner, JR attended this year’s AAEC convention earlier this month. Below are a couple of his […]
Arlo & Janis touches upon one of the great truths of American education.It took me a little over a week, my freshman year, to realize, not that sophomores were all idiots, but that the biggest idiots on campus were all sophomores.I’d have tumbled to it a little sooner, but we had a week of orientation […]
Tank McNamara is a funny strip, and I don’t just mean that in the ha-ha sense. It is essentially the Doonesbury of sports strips and, as with Doonesbury, there are times when you have to check to see if Millar and Hinds are riffing on an actual event or just inventing an absurd situation […]
Mike Thompson takes on the latest idiot distraction, the alleged banning of incandescent light bulbs.There’s nothing new about populist demagogues pandering to the mob with distorted fears of things in their daily lives while more sweeping issues go unremarked. But Thompson does well to riff off the fact that there has never been a time […]