Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price will be teaching a class on cartooning in April.The description from the course website:What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, setting, characters, surprise… all in a snapshot.) Each day’s lecture will focus on a different element of panel cartooning and I’ll assign exercises to strengthen that cartooning muscle. […]
This Friday, Bill Holbrook and Mike Curtis and Joe Staton are crossing over On the Fastrack and Dick Tracy. Below are one panel samples from each as a teaser.Dick Tracy: On the Fastrack: To see these features online, you can see Bill’s work on Comics Kingdom and Mike and Joe’s work on GoComics.
Cartoonists Rights Network International reports that one member of the Scottish Parliament is proposing that January 7, the anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, become Cartoonists day.French-born MSP Christian Allard proposed the motion that the parliament ?reflect on the events that took place in Paris on 7 January 2015 at the Charlie […]
From the Guardian:This week the largest comics festival in France announced its 30 nominees for what many consider the most prestigious prize in comics, the Grand Prix. Not one nominee was a woman. Usually there are at least few women on the longlist for the Angoulême International Comics Festival (known in French as the Festival […]
The Grand Prix d’ Angouleme is one of the highest awards that can be conferred upon a cartoonist. Previous American honorees include Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb and Bill Watterson. This year’s list of 30 nominees did not include the name of any woman and that has many cartoonists upset. Leading the charge is Jessica […]
Newspapers aren’t the only medium cutting comics. Yahoo! has announced it has closed down its online comics page that ran on their Yahoo! News portal.From the NY Post:The comics appeared as part of Yahoo! News, which attracts some 43 million unique users per month. A Yahoo! spokeswoman said: ?We never had a destination. We did […]
From The GuardianFrench satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since an attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: ?One year on: the assassin is still out there.?
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo returns to temporarily take over Hilary Price’s Rhymes With Orange.From Rina’s blog:As some of you may remember, I?ve had a few stints as a guest on RWO over the years. What can I say ? Hilary is one of my ultimate favorite gag cartoonists, and in my opinion her comic […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issues the following statement supporting editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes.The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) stands in support with Ann Telnaes and her right to call out presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for politicizing his daughters in a campaign attack ad. While it would be in bad taste […]
Yesterday was a social (and main stream) media slug fest on editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after the Washington Post pulled a cartoon of hers calling out presidential candidate Ted Cruz for using his daughters as props in a political commercial. The main accusation (which ranged from racist to child abuser) was that it was unfair […]
The Washington Post has made an unusual move of pulling a cartoon by their Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after criticism that the cartoon depictedpresidential candidate Ted Cruz’s children (see cartoon above) as organ grinder’s monkeys. Cruz featured his kids in a campaign commercial (see below) where he read parody book titles such […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Here’s a spoiler-free review from Lucas Turnbloom and me about “Star Wars, The Force Awakens.” Enjoy!