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Cartoon Commentary
Steve May reacts to his first whiff of the new “Cartoonist” fragrance from Esquire and Michael Malul.
A Man of Many Talents
Dave Brown, long time cartoonist for The Independent, has the touch in other arts as witnessed by his win of the Sculpture/3D Prize at the Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition 2025.
CartoonStock’s AI Cartoon Generator
Apparently CartoonStock, “the world’s largest on-line collection of cartoons and comics,” briefly had an Ai cartoon generator on its site. From Michael Maslin:
A follow up to yesterday’s Spill post [link added] about CartoonStock’s use of what it calls “Ai-generated cartoons and comics.” The Spill has seen an email sent out yesterday late afternoon by CartoonStock to CartoonStock cartoonists with the heading, “Clarification on AI and CartoonStock’s Commitment to Cartoonists”.
The email begins:
“We’ve received some concerned messages regarding the recent addition of an AI cartoon generator on the CartoonStock site. A few cartoonists have expressed strong feelings about this, and we want to take those concerns seriously, as our first priority has always been to support cartoonists and put their interests first.”
According to the email, “The AI Tool has now been removed.”
Cartoonist Grand Marshall
David Gonzales, who has built an empire around his Homies, now is serving as Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Lowrider Parade. Veronica Macias at KPIX reports.
Joy of Cartooning
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is a New Yorker cartoonist, comedian, and author whose first memoir, Murder Book, won the Midwest Publishing Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2022. After working in the film industry, she took up stand-up comedy and became hooked on drawing cartoons for the New Yorker. Below, she talks about growing up with Snoopy on the walls, how nonfiction comics feel both immediate and obsessive, finding her voice, and her book, The Joy of Snacking [link added].
Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey for Autobiographix interview cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell.
This is a tricky one to answer. I feel that when you draw every day, you naturally get closer and closer to what your style is. I think my comics are a lot like the way I speak. Erratic, silly, very personal. I personally really enjoy a loose style drawing, like George Booth or Jules Feiffer, so that’s what I gravitated more to in my own work. Also, because I studied film, and make short documentaries on the side, I think that comes out in how I decide to set up a page. Everything is a movie in my head! It’s all a big storyboard!
Hogan’s Alley #24 – the Web Extras
Hogan’s Alley #24 is printed and shipping (though it hasn’t reached my mailbox yet).
Try as we might, even 144 pages can’t contain all the material we had on hand for Hogan’s Alley #24, so we hope you’ll enjoy this material! Some of it also appears in the magazine, and other material appears here exclusively and in color.
Tijuana Bibles, Laurel and Hardy comic strips, cartoon cuisine, the early connection twixt movies and comic strips,and Bob Hope comic books make up Hogan’s Alley issue 24 “Web Extras.”
Esquire Cartoon Album
To celebrate the release of Esquire’s “Cartoonist” cologne here, courtesy of Stephen Nadler, is a selection of Esquire cartoons collected under that tag at Attempted Bloggery featuring Barbara Shermund, Mischa Richter, Eldon Dedini, Lászlo Roth, Gilbert Bundy, Irving Phillips, Howard Baer, E. Simms Campbell, and more.
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