After posting the news yesterday that Philadelphia Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth was leaving the paper after 40 years, it was easy to read between the lines that the decision was in part due to the plans to combine the two daily papers (Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News). In talking with Tony […]
Raychelle Muhammad interviews illustrator and caricaturist Kerry G. Johnson:1) Please describe your journey to becoming an artist. Art has always been my passion. In fact, I knew in kindergarten that I was gifted and blessed as an artist after drawing a picture of cat that won first place in a citywide contest of youth. I […]
Columbia College Chicago has announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jules Feiffer is the 2012 recipient of the John Fischetti Lifetime Achievement Award. The Fischetti Lifetime Achievement Award honors an outstanding career of editorial cartooning, work skewering cultural mores, misguided public policies and self-important people.Feiffer is a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author and […]
The Pew Research Center has issued a report that isn’t so surprising, but offers more concrete numbers to throw around the bar when complaining about the demise of the industry. The report states that on average for every $1 gained in digital advertising revenue, they lose $7 in print ad revenue.In general, the shift to […]
Another Learn to Draw installment from The Doozies creator Tom Gammill. This episode was previewed at The Success in Comics seminar in Vegas two weeks ago where Tom and Momma and Miss Peach creator Mell Lazarus spoke. In this episode, Mell wins his ninth Golden Doozie Award.
Philadelphia’s local CBS station is reporting that Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth, the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, is leaving the paper after 40+ years. The two Philly papers (Inquirer and Daily News) and their joint website (philly.com) are currently up for sale and newsrooms are being combining. The Inquirer’s owner is also trying […]
The Plain Dealer profiles Derf’s new graphic novel “My Friend Dahmer” about his friendship of Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who as arrested in 1991 with body parts in freezer.So they didn’t completely ignore him. Derf himself depicted Dahmer in his high school sketchbooks and worked to sneak him into photos in the high school […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has launched a new blog to highlight events and activities at the cartoon library. Although there was no structure for collecting such materials from cartoonists, and few (if any) institutions in America were, Caniff was a proud OSU graduate and felt compelled to leave his legacy material with […]
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson recently posted his “16 Awesome Websites, Apps & Tools for Web Cartoonists.” Post goes into analytics, hosting, credit card processing, etc.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Global TV did not adequately warn its viewers of a violet part of a Family Guy episode in which Elmer Fudd shoots Bugs Bunny at close range and Bugs “died in a prolonged and dramatic manner.” The network must tell its viewers that it violated the Canadian […]
The Key West Art and Historical Society opened an exhibit of editorial cartoonist and Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters last week. It’s the first show that featured both his editorial cartoons and comic strip.“This exhibit is a self-portrait of the artist,” said Claudia Pennington, executive director of the society. “It looks into the […]
The Cartoonist Studio has announced they are launching a digital publishing company called Crazy Goat Publishing. The new company will focus on cartoons, apps and graphic novels to be distributed through its website and appropriate app markets (Droid, iTunes app store, etc.). They’ve already converted some of their members print books into ebook format including […]
The Joe Palooka comic strip is back, but not in newspapers. According to CBS News boxing announcer Joe Antonacci has purchased the rights to the character and is reworking the boxing champion character into a “mixed martial arts fighter” to be released as comic books. You can see the samples of the comic book online.The […]
John Read enjoyed a 21 year career in the entertainment industry (movies, commercials) and teaching cartooning to kids age 7-12. Inspired by Jud Hurd’s Cartoonists PROfiles, he started Stay Tooned! magazine. John shared the four things NOT to do with your cartooning career and the 12 you should.Notes: Stay Tooned! is an old school magazine. […]
Mark Parisi is the creator of the comic panel Off The Mark and his wife, Lynn Reznick Parisi, is the business manager for the strip. Off the Mark has been sold both in and out of syndication (currently syndicated through Universal Uclick). He’s been doing paid cartooning professionally since 1987 when his feature was picked […]