Cartoonists On (A Sunday) Parade
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Mustered cartoonists: Peter Kuper, Justin Eisinger, Michael Maslin, Art Sloggatt, Nicole Hollander, Ham Fisher.
Ohio Book Awards
A couple of graphic novels are finalists in the non-fiction category of the Ohio Book Awards.
Insectopolis is by Peter Kuper who lived in Ohio during his school years, and It Rhymes With Takei is by George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger and illustratedby Harmony Becker. Justin Eisinger is the Ohio connection of that group.
Maslin’s ‘I Like the Kitty’ Moment
Cartoonist MIchael Maslin recalls a Seinfeld “bit” when a comparable moment happened to him.
Many of us recall the famous Seinfeld episode, “The Cartoon” (written by my New Yorker colleague, Bruce Eric Kaplan) that includes the scene where Elaine Benes goes into “The New Yorker” to confront the editor (“Mr. Elinoff”) about a cartoon she doesn’t understand…
Arthur H. Sloggatt, Forgottten Cartoonist
Karthik Prasad for The Hans India reviews JL Coronado’s biography (“partly an art collection, partly an act of historical recovery”) of editorial cartoonist Arthur H. Sloggatt (1917-1975)
Before reading J.L. Coronado’s The Art of Courage: Post WWII Collection of NY Daily Mirror Political Cartoonist- Arthur H. Sloggatt (published through Six14 Productions), I knew nothing about Sloggatt. That ignorance turns out not to be unusual. Sloggatt spent much of the late 1950s and early 1960s drawing syndicated editorial cartoons for the New York Daily Mirror, one of the country’s most widely read newspapers. His work appeared in more than thirty newspapers through the Universal Press Syndicate and Hearst Headline Service. One cartoon, “Another Moon Shot?” from January 1959, found its way into the archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. He had credentials, audience, and reach.
During the late fifties and early sixties when Art Sloggatt drew for The Mirror he also was a cartoonist for the Believe It or Not syndicated panel and as “Hastings” for The Tablet, A Catholic Weekly.
Remembering Nicole Hollander
We added this to our Nicole Hollander obituary but think it should be included in a current roundup.
Andrew Farago has written a remembrance of cartoonist Nicole Hollander.
Hollander’s dry, wicked sense of humor and unique style and format made Sylvia an immediate standout on the comics page, and she found an appreciative audience in women readers, who could count the number of syndicated strips by, for, and about them on a single hand in the early 1980s. Drawing some of its visual inspiration from Jules Feiffer’s celebrated strip Feiffer, the strip centered on the titular character, who was modeled in part on Hollander’s mother. Readers had never seen anything like her before. Sylvia was a sarcastic, middle-aged woman who did not hold anything back when expressing her thoughts on political, social and cultural topics, as well as her cats.
The Bright Side of Ham Fisher
Joe Healey for The Scranton Times-Tribune profiles cartoonist Ham Fisher for a series celebrating Northeast Pennsylvania-born celebrities with none of the dirty laundry.
We tend to think of the golden age of American comic books and media empires as products of New York or Los Angeles. But before the modern superhero blueprint was finalized, it was refined right on Public Square.
Ham Fisher didn’t just draw a boxer; NEPA shaped the moral compass of an iconic American hero who taught a generation of citizens how to fight for what’s right.
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