One reason I can pull up strips for “Classic” postings is that, before I started the blog, I would save strips that I found particularly amusing or thought-provoking. I rarely do that anymore, since I post them here. But I’m certainly going to keep a copy of today’s Sinfest. I’ve got nothing to add except to […]
Note: I live tweeted this session so in essence, by tweets are my notes.We’re starting up the panels and speakers for the day. First up: Stan Goldberg. Stan is also being inducted into NCS hall of fame tonight. Stan’s giving us a review of his early work in illustration/advertising and art school pieces. Started working […]
Note: If you’re coming from Twitter and have been following my tweets all afternoon, much of this will be the same, but I did expand on some.Showing a photo of him at age 3 or 4 with a Dick Tracy comic book. In 1969 he became an assistant to tumbleweeds creator Tom Ryan. Tom was […]
Bruce Handy talks to New Yorker comic editor Bob Mankoff for Vanity Fair about the ever numerous desert-island cartoons that have been generated over the decades:As the magazine’s cartoon editor, do you feel you have to set a higher bar for desert-island cartoons? Oh yeah, there’s always a sliding scale. Desert-island cartoons are like lightbulb […]
The Internet at the hotel is horrible so I will be live Tweeting the announcements via texting. To learn who won the National Cartoonists Society winners tonight follow me on twitter: @dailycartoonist.I’ll post more notes and more details of the winners when I’m back to the hotel.
Michael Jantze is a professor at Savanna College of Art and Design, creator of The Norm, and founder of Jantze Studios where they create animated shorts. He talked about the history of cartooning (business/client/distribution) and how that is changing and why. Dave Kellett creator of Sheldon, and Drive talked about the webcomic model and John […]
Mark Simon is a cartoonist, producer, director, writer, lecturer and he talked about how to get free advertising through publicity. It was a HUGE amount of information in a little over an hour’s time. He outlined 16 ways to get increase your visibility. I’ll outline them here.1. Pitch a story, not a product to the […]
My favorite Scandanavian goth chick, Nemi, explains vegetarianism but mostly explains explanation.Whether Nemi’s creator, Lise Myhre, was ever really anything much like Nemi has long since become a moot point. The strip is now 15 years old and Myhre is now 36, and the married mother of a five-year-old.And blonde.Whatever may have been the case […]
]Andrews McMeel Publishig, the parent company of Universal Uclick, will launch a new line of comic graphic novels aimed at middle school grades late this summer . The paperback series will include titles from several comics strips such as: Lincoln Peirce’s comic Big Nate, Bill Amend’s FoxTrot and Mark Tatulli’s Lio. The first one (Big […]
I’m in Las Vegas attending this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend. Festivities kick off today and run through Sunday with the big awards dinner on Saturday night. For up-to-the second play by play of the awards dinner and winners – follow me on Twitter (@dailycartoonist). I intend to post photos and session notes […]
CBS This Morning sent out a reporter to interview Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the current story-line discussing a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. The story delves into that, but also steps back and is a nice story about Tom’s work in general.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune will soon cease to be a daily newspaper. The paper announced yesterday that it was moving to a three-times weekly schedule with greater emphasis on delivering the news at greater frequency through it’s website. From their website, Nola.com: With a reduced printing schedule starting in the fall, Amoss said, plans call […]
For a week or two, I’ve been watching “Big Top” at GoComics, seeing that it was coming to an end and thinking I should provide a heads-up when it restarted. “Big Top” reruns have re-started. Rob Harrell did Big Top for five years and I was poking around to see if I could find out why he […]
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will be hosting a political cartoon festival in conjunction with their annual convention in September. The Festival is entitled “#!&% CARTOONS!! A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon” and runs Sept. 14th & 15th at George Washington University. Special guests of the festival include François Mouly, Bob Staake and Steve Brodner.From […]
I find myself continually frustrated with the political process, in large part because the people who seem to question it also seem unwilling, or unable, to access it.The great success of the Civil Rights Movement and, to a lesser extent, the Anti-War Movement, was the grassroots actions that did not simply confront the system but […]