Four members of The Australian Cartoonists Association will be attending this years 2014 International Cartoon Festival of Saint Just le Martel. About 50 ACA members contributed to an exhibit of work “Australian view of the World and Australian Humour”. The four that will be attending are Eric Lobbecke, Judy Horacek, Ward O’Neill and Christophe Granet. […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo is experimenting with audio with her comic strip this week. Each day this week her feature appears in newspapers as usual along with a message to visit her website to hear audio commentary about that day’s strip.From her blog: What Is It and How Will It Work? The 6-day series […]
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia has announced this year’s awards for best in alternative journalism. In the category for cartooning, first place this year goes to Jen Sorensen (Slowpoke Comics), second place goes to Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World) and Cullum Rogers (INDY Week).Congratulations!
From Kuwaiti Times:The creator of an Islam inspired popular comic series said that he takes death threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaeda seriously. Following their recent call to kill former MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, ISIL has called for killing psychiatrist Dr Nayef Al-Mutawa, the creator of ?The 99? […]
Randy Glasbergen who must draw 20 or 90 cartoons a day to keep up with his syndicated panels The Better Half and Thin Lines and his freelance/cartoon service empire has illustrated a new book called Laugh Together, Stay Together
Nearly 2 years after it hit the web, Nina Paley’s “This Land Is Mine“ is viral. Honestly I’m not sure if it hasn’t already been viral. Given the topic of the Middle East, it has capacity to go viral every 18 months. Sigh. This Land Is Mine from Nina Paley on Vimeo.Her original blog posts […]
Zits co-creator Jerry Scott has posted a peak at his studio. Always interesting to see. Click through the photo below to see all his photos and commentary.Jim Borgman, the other co-creator, posted his studio in Colorado back in May.
Congratulations to Michael Cavna on six years behind Comic Riffs. To commemorate, he’s posted “60 Telling Quotes About Comics and Cartooning from the past six years of ?Riffs”.
I’ve been anxious to see this book since it was announced. Nat Gertler unboxes the Peanuts Artist’s Edition.
Just when I think Disney couldn’t possibly demonstrate more that it has no soul. This.Hollywood Reporter reports a live-action Dumbo movie is in the works. Ehren Kruger (Transformers) is writing the script, Justin Springer (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion) will produce.The new take involves the adaptation of the original movie while adding a unique family story that […]
Interesting piece Committee to Protect Journalists regarding Xavier Bonilla, better known as Bonil and his struggles with a state sponsored media review commission.Called to testify before a government media oversight commission, editorial cartoonist Xavier Bonilla–known by his penname Bonil–showed up with a pair of four-foot-long mock pencils. But rather than having a small eraser on […]
Regarding New Yorker cartoonist and newly appointed State Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, Seven Days writes: But few beyond Koren’s neighbors know that, for the past 26 years, he has been a volunteer with the Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department. Koren calls his other, less public job a “tonic,” in that it allows him to connect with […]
Today marks the launch of David Reddick’s comic strip Intelligent Life via King Features. Comics Kingdom describes the strip as following “the ups and downs of the geek life, through the eyes of Skip, Gwen, Mike, and Barry, four employees at Finch Marketing– all equally geeky in their own unique way. Skip’s a lovable dork […]
If you’re an editorial cartoonist, you may want to check out PlanetPOV to see if your work is being used without permission. The site has been posting several scores of cartoons by a variety of cartoons each Sunday and not in any fair-use way – unless fair-use is being defined as “it’s on the internet, […]
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot lived in South Africa for three months last year. Jan weaved her experience into a story-line that ran in late May and into June using the Grandmother Evie character to voice her impressions of the country.The Cape Argus, a Cape Town newspaper, picked up on the story-line and profiles Jan […]