Cartoonists in the News
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With Paul Karasik, Karen Evans, Stephan Pastis, Liza Donnelly on Mary Petty, a raft of cartoonists in the Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest, and the Florida Agricultural Department will define “cartoon.”
Inkpot Awards
The Vineyard Gazette reported that local cartoonist Paul Karasik has received an Inkpot Award:
“It’s hard to catch me by surprise, but in this case, I was stunned,” he said via phone interview on his way back to Massachusetts.
Mr. Karasik is a cartoonist whose work frequently appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker and the Vineyard Gazette, among other publications. He has won two Eisner Awards for his work in comics, and his most recent book is an adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, which came out in April.
And twenty years after Greg Evans received an Inkpot Award, daughter Karen Evans, Luann writer and current National Cartoonists Society president, received her Inkpot at the late July San Diego Comic-Con.
The Further Adventures of Jesus
With a comic titled from a quote by Christ you would think Pearls Before Swine would just naturally feature Jesus. Of course it seldom does but when He does get mentioned there are letters:
There is no correlation between the first panel and the third panel, only blasphemy. The insertion by the strip’s creator of a faux “censor” in the final panel should be a reminder that, like this comic strip, there are more fake “pearls” in the real world than real jewels.
The Cartoons Of Mary Petty
Born in Hampton N.J. in 1899, Petty was raised by educated parents and was one of seven children. As a young woman, she wrote a lot in her diary, and always felt “like an outsider” in her own family. In a letter to her future husband, she wrote,
“It seems strange to me to watch these people—for though I appear to be one of them, I feel apart—a watcher— looking at people to whom I feel no call of blood.”
She loved to ridicule New York City’s upper class.
In Liza Donnelly‘s most recent series of short profiles she presents us with Mary Petty.
Petty was highly protective of her creative process, and was adamant about writing her own captions. Petty wrote, “This is not because I think my own ideas are that good, but because I have a fear that I might come to depend on others for ideas and therefore any ability I had in that line might become vestigial.”
Consider helping Donnelly’s Women Laughing documentary come to fruition.
The Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest
This year’s Homer Days snuck up on us. The festival includes a Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest.
This year they showcase 32 entries by a number of cartoonists – some familiar, some not, all admirable. Featuring S. W. Conser, Aaron McConnell, Mark Bielemeier, Daniel Boris, Milt Priggee, Andrey Feldshteyn, Blake Carlson, Dan McConnell, Garth German, Jack Wiens, Steve Greenberg, Richard Laurent, Johannah Muyambargo, Douglas Newton, and Veiara Solenne.
Florida Ag Dept. will Define “Cartoon”
In a continued effort to crack down on the sale of hemp to minors, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is coming up with a new regulation.
This one will define the word “cartoon,” and the agency will hear public testimony on the proposed new rule during a workshop in Tallahassee on Aug. 13.
As part of an effort to curtail pot sales to children a Florida government agency will define “cartoon.”
Florida law bans hemp products from being “attractive to children” and includes this definition:
“‘Attractive to children,’ means manufactured in the shape of humans, cartoons, or animals; manufactured in a form that bears any reasonable resemblance to an existing candy product that is familiar to the public as a widely distributed, branded food product such that a product could be mistaken for the branded product, especially by children; or containing any color additives. Under the statute, hemp products are attractive to children if they are in the shape of a cartoon or display cartoons on the packaging.”
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