If you’ve drawn the Prophet Muhammad, you might soon be targeted by Islamic Jihadis. Or at least that’s the conclusion ForeignPolicy.com reports after two Jihadi Twitter users called for a Charlie Hebdo style attack on cartoonists in the U.S. and Australia (subscription required). One of the Jihadis targeted a specific Aussie, Larry Pickering, who is […]
From The New York Times:The government?s plan was simple enough: Rid Moscow of swastikas or any other symbol of Nazism before Victory Day, the celebration of the Soviet Union?s defeat of Germany and the most important political holiday in Russia. But in the frenzy to comply, bookstores aiming to please the censor found an unlikely […]
The 2015-16 Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning fundraising has started. Anne Morse Hambrock, the festival founder, has a great event lined up. Mark Tatulli of Lio, Heart of the City, Desmond Puckett Bill Morrison ? Art Director: Futurama, Co-Founder of Bongo Comics, Simpsons and Disney Illustrator, Roswell Little Green Man Jan Eliot – Stone Soup Darrin […]
Photo © NBC Doonesbury and Alpha House creator Garry Trudeau was featured on yesterday’s Meet the Press to discuss his comments made regarding the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. Garry’s speech has been interpreted as opining that the French cartoonists brought the terrorist attack upon themselves because they didn’t censor themselves when it comes to Islam.Garry and […]
Here’s the official trailer for Chad Carpenter’s Moose: The Movie. It debuted in Alaska last night. I didn’t realize Tom Gammill starred in it. You can read the review at the Alaska Dispatch News.
On Monday, Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. By Thursday, Mayor Byron Brown had declared April 23rd “Adam Zyglis Day in the city of Buffalo.”And who says government moves slowly?
From Comingsoon.net:On July 20, 2018, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directors of The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and 21 and 22 Jump Street, are taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature, it was announced today at CinemaCon by Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony […]
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) talks with editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle on a variety of topics including the boundaries of free speech, the speech given by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. © Daryl Cagle
The Independent has published a long excerpt from a book (“Letter to the Islamophobia Frauds Who Play into the Hands of Racists”) penned by Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, better known as Charb. The book was finished just two days before the attacks on Charlie Hebdo.A snippet:People who accuse Charlie Hebdo cartoonists of Islamophobia each […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will gather in Columbus, OH this year for their annual convention. Columbus is home to the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) which makes it a prime venue for ink-slingers. The dates for the convention are Thursday, […]
This year’s Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Looking though the list (below), I’m seeing several familiar names. Glad to see Richard Thompson nominated for The Complete Cul de Sac in the Best Humor Publication category. Brian Fies has been nominated in the Best Digital/Web Comic category for his comic “The Last Mechanical Monster”. I’m […]
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has had quiet a run lately since the release of her book “Can?t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?”. The book has won the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. It also was cited as a reason for being honored with the Heinz […]
Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price does this from time to time – takes a week off and brings in a guest cartoonist to keep the strip going. This week’s guest cartoonist is Susan Camilleri-Konar. Her cartoons started on Monday and continue through Sunday.Hat tip: Rina Piccolo
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will lose its current space in June after a lease ends.From the San Francisco Chronicle:The institution, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has to vacate its home in downtown San Francisco after its longtime lease ends in June, but it has not yet found a new one. ?It?s […]
Bill Holbrook’s Kevin & Kell, one of the longest running webcomics ever, relaunched on King Feature’s Comics Kingdom yesterday starting with strips from 2009. Bill has been producing the strip since 1995.“Bringing classic “Kevin & Kell” strips to Comics Kingdom is an exciting development, as it opens up a whole new audience for the tale […]