Joseph Farris, who contributed over 300 cartoons to the New Yorker has passed at the age of 90.Fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin writes:Born in 1924, in Newark, NJ, Joe was a longtime Connecticut resident. In his early days he was a student of another Connecticut cartoonist, the great Richard Taylor. Joe contributed close to […]
Festival of Cartooning Director Anne Morse Hambrock announced that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation raised $10,000 last year through the auction that Anne organized. The money is being split between two children’s charities in Kenosha.We were honored to present a check for over $5,000 to the Open Wings School […]
This last weekend was the Angouleme International Comic Art Festival in France. Reports say the annual event had extra security due to the recent terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo publication last month. Last year’s Grand Prix winner, Bill Watterson, did not attend, but instead OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jenny Robb and […]
Sad news from Allan Holtz regarding the passing of Cole Johnson, a comic scholar with a vast expertise in newspaper comic strip history.One of the most endearing things about Cole was that he realized, and reveled in, the idea that being a newspaper comics expert is mystifying pointless and utterly ridiculous to 99.9% of humanity. […]