The New York Times obituary of Dondi cartoonist Irwin Hasen:Irwin Hasen, the cartoonist and comic-book artist who drew, and helped create, ?Dondi,? the widely syndicated comic strip about a lovable, wide-eyed World War II orphan, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 96.The Times describes his life as an iconic or stereotypical New York City […]
Ward Sutton asks Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) about the illustration work he does on occasion.WARD SUTTON: Do you actively look for illustration work? TOM TOMORROW: I honestly don’t. Occasionally an interesting project falls in my lap, like a book cover or the album art and packaging I designed for Pearl Jam. But in general, I’m […]
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: Tall Tale Radio has a case of “Pac Man Fever!” First off, Mary Varn of “NPC Comic,” joins us to give us her impressions of the huge video game convention, […]
Celebrating 30 years of Luann, GoComics has posted an interview with Luann creator Greg Evans and his daughter, Karen. What can readers expect in the future? GE: I hate to admit this, but in 30 years of doing the strip, I never thought much past lunchtime. Now that my daughter Karen is helping with plotting, […]
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:On March 12 the State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) will host a reception honoring Tom Engelhardt and the evocative editorial cartoons showcased in his new book, Four Turbulent Decades: A Cartoon History of America, 1962?2001, which will be released at the celebration. Featuring a selection of drawings by the longtime […]
From the Washington Post:Yet the debate about whether to publish depictions of Muhammad ? a practice generally prohibited in Islam and violently opposed by extremists ? hasn’t disappeared following the horrific events of the past few months. And now, a Danish proposal would push the debate far further than before ? by putting cartoons of […]
In 2012, Jen Sorenson published ?An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance.? The comic was widely distributed and for it she was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for editorial cartooning. Yesterday, she published a second biographical piece about a friend’s experience being date-raped in college during the 1970s and […]
The movie looks more interesting now than after I watched the first trailer.
The title is of a recent Wall Street Journal article (‘Calvin and Hobbes’: America’s Most Profound Comic Strip) is perhaps a bit hyperbolic. I’m not sure it’s the most profound, but certainly one of.Here’s the money quotes with my thoughts: ?Calvin and Hobbes? would have faced big challenges if Mr. Watterson had decided to carry […]
Reporters without Borders highlight eight individuals around the world whose profession as cartoonists is personally dangerous. The shootings on 7 January in Paris and 14 February in Copenhagen showed the extent to which cartoonists are now the targets of extremist movements. In other parts of the world, it is often governments that try to silence […]
Universal Uclick has launched a new website to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. On the site you can buy Calvin and Hobbes books, reprints and the book, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes An Exhibition Catalogue. The new book is the catalogue for Bill’s exhibition at the Billy […]
Charles Brubaker wrote an interesting piece over at Cartoon Research about the attempts to make The Wizard of Id into an animated TV show. I always considered The Wizard of Id to be one of my big cartooning influence. I always had a thing for Johnny Hart?s dry sense of humor, and I consider Brant […]
Again from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo comes news that Will Roberts interviewed all six of the Six Chix contributors. As far as I know, I can’t think of another radio interview with all six.Give it a listen.
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was interviewed a couple of times this last week. She writes:On Friday I had the pleasure to speak with America?s favorite cowboy humorist Will Roberts. Will is the host of the Will Roberts Weekly Telegram Radio Show, and a huge fan of comics. It?s no surprise he?s got a special […]
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: The epic John Sanford, Director over at Dreamworks Animation, continues! We take some cool questions from Facebook followers, pit famous cartoon characters against one another in deathmatches, talk about John’s […]