The Townsend Award (“the Townsie”) is a two-fer from the Association of Canadian Cartoonists one for the best Anglophone cartoon of the year and one for the best Francophone cartoon of the year. As Mike Peterson reported (and, again, we’re setting this up as a stand-alone item): Mike also lists two other awards that were […]
After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on thisJuxtaposition Without JustificationLisa Benson — CounterpointDana Summers — TribuneMike Lester — AMSBob Gorrell — CreatorsI was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’ convention to keep up with the […]
Mike Peterson mentioned this, but we’re going to give it a stand-alone article too. About the Babin Award: The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning is given each year to an editorial cartoonist who focuses on state and local issues, and whose work has had an effect on their community. From the […]
Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar in San Diego; Wayno in Pittsburgh; Steve Bell in London; Bill Watterson in Amazon; High and Middle School Cartoonists in Wisconsin; Hilary B. Price in Massachusetts. While TDC’s Mike Peterson is giving us “live” reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention (Day 1, Day […]
Day Two of the AAEC/ACC Conference in Montreal began with the Americans conducting a business meeting while the Canadians held a panel on digitization and conservation, apparently in both languages, unless the Billy Ireland’s Jenny Robb is fluent en francais, since she was one of the presenters.After lunch, we were reunited and began a full […]
Frank and Ernest creator Robert Lee (Bob) Thaves was born on Oct. 5, 1924, one hundred years ago today. As Bob’s National Cartoonists Society mini-autobiographical card above notes he became a published cartoonist while still a student. The Los Angeles Times obituary says the cartooning affliction began in high school: As a boy, he knew […]
Tomorrow, October 6, 2024, has Matthew K. Manning and Howie (H.C.) Noel start a short stint on Dick Tracy. Everyone grows up with the goal of fulfilling a childhood dream, and for DuBoistown native Howie Noel, that dream has come true as Sunday marks the debut of a three-week run of an official Dick Tracy […]
Welcome to Montreal, home of Westmount High, alma mater of Kamala Harris, who, as Terry Mosher (Aislin) reminded us, lived here for a few years when her mother was a professor at McGill.There will be a lot of graphics today, so the prose will be sparse, and note that a lot was shot at an […]
If you’re in or near Los Angeles and a fan of Stan Kelly‘s scathing meta-satirical “right-wing” editorial cartoons from The Onion, you can see his original artwork displayed at the American Punchline exhibit at Subliminal Projects. Cartoonist Ward Sutton claims to be only Kelly’s assistant, but I have it on good authority that he does […]
Ed Maclachlan, recognized as “one of our greatest living cartoonists,” has passed away. He was 84 years old.Ed was born in 1940 in Humberton, Leicestershire. According to Lambiek Comiclopedia, he studied art at Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University) from 1957-1961. His first published cartoons were in the college publication Lucifer. He began submitting […]
The Gang’s All Here!, Breaking Cat News, Mafalda, The K Chronicles, Half Full/Nat, Dennis the Menace², and Non Sequitur. 12-year-old cartoonist draws for South Sioux City newspaper SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KCAU) — Alvaro Galindo Jr. has been drawing for over two years now for the South Sioux City newspaper Mundo Latino, starting when he […]
Nous sommes ici, at the AAEC and ACC Convention in Montreal, and I’m gradually re-learning to shift from English to French and back again as well as recalling that once you find the place you’re looking for and then find a place to park, you have forgotten how to get where you were going. Fortunately, […]
Some peripherally comics related stuff: Stan Lee’s L.A. home on the market; Macmillan Publishers donate to bookstores/comic shops in hurricane Helene’s path; Garfield Nendoroid Prototype; a Rugrats live-action movie; a New Yorker strike could disrupt the New Yorker Festival. Back in late 2014, Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee doled out $4.4 million for a modern […]
Cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman was born 100 years ago today – on October 3, 1924. From the editors of The Comics Journal: This Thursday, Oct. 3, marks the 100th birthday of Harvey Kurtzman, the genius behind Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, Mad, Trump, Humbug, Help! and, yes, even Little Annie Fanny. Kurtzman’s work changed the shape of […]
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t […]