Yesterday’s hearing before the Supreme Court did not appear to go well for cartoonist Hemant Malviya based on their comments and rebuttals. Today’s hearing was only an improvement in that the justices granted him interim protection from arrest prior to his court date. Despite giving Malviya a reprieve, they opined that he overstepped legal bounds. […]
Featuring cartoonists Berkeley Breathed, Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa, Will Henry, Marcus Williams, Patrick McDonnell and Jane Goodall, Lee Falk and ????, Rick Stromoski, and Christina ‘Steenz’ Stewart. We start off with a reminder that Berkeley Breathed’s The Bloom County Boys continues to issue new strips. As does Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa’s Shifts vertical […]
Australian chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, illustrator, artist, cartoonist, TV presenter, and media personality Peter Russell Clarke passed away on July 4. He was 89. From the 1950’s into the 1970’s he wrote articles and drew political cartoons for the Melbourne Herald. He was also one of five cartoonists to have worked on the legacy comic strip […]
Revealed is Peanuts merchandise debuting at this month’s San Diego Comic-Con and some exclusive Peanuts products available only at the SDCC. Plus other Peanuts collectibles coming your way. Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary in a big way at San Diego Comic-Con with a booth, a nostalgic pop-up shop, and a Friday afternoon panel — […]
Spanish Illustrator and graphic novelist Paco Roca is the featured exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid. His exhibit, La memoria. Emotional journey through the comics of Paco Roca, contains originals, pages, sketches, notes, scripts, reference photographs, and four mural sized unpublished drawings. This short video gives you an inside look at the exhibit. Exhibit […]
Call it media illiteracy. It’s the pervasive lack of knowledge about what a political cartoon is supposed to be, and what it’s supposed to do — provoke thought and, yes, even disagreement. Instead of understanding that, many people leap to the faulty conclusion that since the editorial commentary comes in the form of a cartoon, […]