A few cartoonists of late have paid tribute to the giants that preceded them. For example: Lalo Alcaraz doing Jack Kirby. Michael de Adder does Joe Shuster. Dan Piraro memorializes Ernie Bushmiller Lalo Alcaraz, again, riffing on Gary Larson. And RJ Matson reworks Norman Rockwell. Finally Berkeley Breathed interrupts his The Bloom County Boys for […]
Award winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman (Sigma Delta Chi, RFK Humanitarian, Thomas Nast, National Headliner, Scripps Howard, and on and on, including The Pulitzer when it meant something) and former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a fly fisherman has been a political cartoonist for nearly 50 years. Jack has seen the […]
The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cartoon Awards were held two weeks ago but the disclosure of the winning cartoonists and the runners-up were announced one day at a time since the ceremony. But we finally have […]
The Walt Disney Co. will acquire a 2% equity stake in Webtoon Entertainment Inc., a digital comic and novel platform operator owned by South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., as they team up to build a new digital comics platform featuring the US entertainment giant’s marquee brands, including Marvel and Star Wars. Sookyung Seo at […]
The Constitution turned 238 yesterday, including the first 10 amendments, aka “The Bill of Rights.” In case you’ve forgotten, or went to a school that didn’t teach history, it was a struggle to come up with a governing document that everyone could agree with. There was a substantial debate in the newspapers between Founders who […]