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Clay Jones draws! The Norman Rockwell Comic Strip! Score Bunny by Henrik! The Award Winning Peter Kuper!
A Clay Jones Update and New Drawing
Clay Jones is making remarkable progress with an attitude that is positive and retaining his sense of humor.
This caricature of Trump is the first drawing I have attempted since the stroke. Isn’t it crazy that I haven’t drawn anything in over a month? This was done with my left hand, and it was extremely difficult. I still don’t have enough stability with my right arm. I did hold a guitar pick for a few minutes today while strumming my Taylor 214. I’m not selling my guitars just yet. No, I do not plan to draw in the future with my left hand. Coincidentally enough, I drew it while waiting for an occupational therapist to arrive.
Well Clay I think the drawing is wonderful and you wouldn’t be the first cartoonist to switch drawing hand. Tad Dorgan comes instantly to mind, though he was quite a bit younger when he had to switch sides. I know there are others.
The Norman Rockwell Comic Strip
Norman Rockwell, the renowned illustrator of Americana, in 1943 drew a four page series for the Saturday Evening Post. The full page drawings were sequential creating a bit of a comic strip quality.
In the grand arc of Norman Rockwell’s career, So You Want to See the President! stands as one of his most ambitious and conceptually unified achievements-his only known suite of four interrelated paintings conceived to tell a single, continuous story. Created in 1943, at the height of World War II, the series offers an intimate and deeply human portrayal of American democracy in action.
The Norman Rockwell “comic strip” sold yesterday through Heritage Auctions for $7,250,000.00
Score Bunny by Henrik De Boer
The next Jim Davis? Norman Rockwell? Clay Jones?
Sara Kiley-de Boer writes to Pelham Today of her artistic son Henrik:
Henrik is an imaginative and creative 8-year-old from Pelham. Last year, Henrik discovered the joy of Garfield comics and was instantly hooked! He is fascinated by the idea that Jim Davis shared his witty, sarcastic cat with the world through newspapers since 1978, and it sparked something big: Henrik began making his own comic strips…
The Award Winning Peter Kuper
This past week saw Peter Kuper presented with an award from the Entomological Society of America for his Insectopolis. It was announced a few months ago and Peter received the trophy at the ESA annual meeting.
[The Science Communication Award] honors impactful and innovative communication projects or programs that engage diverse public audiences with entomology-related scientific information.
Also this week The Revelator posted John R. Platt’s interview with Kuper about his two new books.
This year Kuper’s political cartooning and love of entomology intersected with the publication of two new environmental books…
The first, Insectopolis: A Natural History (W.W. Norton, $35), is a graphic novel — five years in the making — about insects and the scientists who helped uncover their stories. Set after an apocalypse has wiped out all humans, the story follows the insects themselves as they travel through the New York Public Library, uncovering facts about their evolution, cultural importance, ecological roles, and more.
Then comes Wish We Weren’t Here: Postcards From the Apocalypse (Fantagraphics, $19.99), a collection of wordless cartoons about climate change, plastic pollution, and other environmental issues originally published in the French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Each one-page, four-panel strip starts with an image that slowly morphs into something more sinister and revelatory.
But wait! There’s more! World War 5 Illustrated #55 has been released.
As the CounterPunch review tells us:
Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper as an ongoing anthology of radical comics, “WW3” has been on the job ever since, full of politics and art mixed, with more artists and more young artists, than anywhere else in the comics world.
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