Saturday, June 14 (2025) will see the world premiere of the documentary film by Bill Banowsky at the DC/DOX Film Festival of A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant. Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. An Australian transplant, […]
As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities. In recent weeks, this debate reemerged after ChatGPT rolled out a new image […]
Time in cartoons tends to be vague. Some strips are forever in place, some move glacially, others keep up a relatively realistic pace. Readers accept, for instance, that kids get out of school, have a summer vacation, and then return to the same classroom, same teacher, same curriculum. But they can also follow, on the […]