Washington D.C. based illustrator Nick Galifianakis has an exhibit of his work opening tomorrow night and runs through Nov 14. Nick, who provides cartoons for the Carolyn Hax advice column in the Washington Post, also has a new book due out entitled, “If You Loved Me, You’d Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About […]
Slate has posted what they view as the 200 Greatest Moments of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of G.B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, Slate and Doonesbury.com invite you to enter the feature’s 14,600-strip archive and wander to your heart’s content. For the next two weeks this vast labyrinth of storytelling and interconnected lives, […]
New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum has passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 68. The New York Times’ obituary notes that for most of his career, Leo was a TWA pilot but he will be remembered for his cartoons – some 819 of them. The magazine rejected his early submissions but bought some […]
Last Sunday’s editorial cartoon by Mike Thompson stirred the ire of Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly. Mike’s cartoon was in response to NPR firing long-time analyst Juan Williams for comments he made on the Fox Network about fearing Muslims. The cartoon depicted several Fox News personalities in various garb – O’Reilly in a “Obama=Hitler” shirt, […]
With today’s anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s Doonebury, I’ll be posting items that I think are of interest. Doonebury is hitting an impressive milestone and it is my opinion that he’s been remarkably good at keeping the strip fresh after so many years. Here is a sample from a Slate.com interview with Garry. Visit the full […]
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s Doonsbury strip. Here is the first strip:The Guardian reports that Garry’s career was somewhat an accident: The strip had come about almost by chance. Trudeau had been having a bit of fun as a third-year Yale student, dabbling with a sports cartoon called Bull Tales based on […]
Bill Hinds, the creator of Cleats, has decided to bring his comic strip to a close citing the need to focus on other projects that are more economically profitable. The last strip will run this Sunday. Cleats was created back in 2000 at the request of Lee Salem at Universal Press. Bill had a successful […]
You might recall news stories back in 2006 of Jose Varela, a freelanced editorial cartoonist of 13 years for El Nuevo Herald, who stormed the Miami Herald offices with a toy gun start a three hour stand-off with police. He was booked into Miami-Dade jail last week for battery and resisting arrest. According to NBCMiami.com […]
Alexander Anderson, best known for his creation of the 1959 animated program Rocky and His Friends and its 1961 spin-off The Bullwinkle Show, known collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, has passed away at the age of 90. After the war, Anderson went to work full-time for Terrytoons, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Movie attendance […]
This year’s “Cartoons and Cocktails” will be held this Thursday. The annual event auctions off editorial cartoons donated by the top cartoonists in the country. The proceeds go to Young D.C. the independent newspaper by and for teenagers in the Washington Metropolitan area and the Cartoonists Rights Network International. This year the auction will include […]
Frequent Daily Cartoonist commentator Mike Peterson looks at the reasons why comic polls are so popular. It’s also important to realize that, as much as today’s editor is a stickler for proper grammar and follows rules in a way that would make the most tightly-buttoned librarian look like Oscar Madison, journalism majors don’t study a […]
Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith was recently interviewed in the alumni magazine of his alma mater Loyola Marymount University. If a student cartoonist at The Loyolan today asks you for advice, would you advise him or her to switch to computer animation? I would tell them that they need to be very versed […]
Interesting story over on Yahoo finance which reports on six people who had made their first million before they turned 25. One of which was Juliette Brindak who started MissOandFriends.com – a website geared toward tweens. At 10, Brindak started drawing the “cool girls” cartoon figures who became stars in 2005 of her online community […]
And yet another college campus cartoon controversy. This time at the University of Connecticut where two cartoons have been deemed offensive to women. The two cartoons were published on September 21st – one re-writing the “Sugar and Spice” poem to read, “Forget sugar and spice and everything nice. Try crabs, scabs and everything viral. That’s […]
The question of plagiarism in comics is always a tricky one especially in strips working in a similar space. A fan of Pooch Cafe sent Paul Gilligan a cartoon from the newly launched Dogs of C Kennel that was similar to one of his. Paul found a couple others and posted them on his blog. […]