This last weekend was the Angouleme International Comic Art Festival in France. Reports say the annual event had extra security due to the recent terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo publication last month. Last year’s Grand Prix winner, Bill Watterson, did not attend, but instead OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jenny Robb and […]
Sad news from Allan Holtz regarding the passing of Cole Johnson, a comic scholar with a vast expertise in newspaper comic strip history.One of the most endearing things about Cole was that he realized, and reveled in, the idea that being a newspaper comics expert is mystifying pointless and utterly ridiculous to 99.9% of humanity. […]
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: It’s a great pleasure to talk with Sarah Andersen of “Sarah’s Scribbles.” Fell in love with that strip as soon as I saw it, and Lucas Turnbloom (“Imagine This”) and […]
Former Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein (who also created the comic strip Freshly Squeezed has launched his webcomic Sleeper Ave . The comic is a personal history of growing up in Waco, Texas in the 1950s. Here’s how Ed describes it:In 1953, a tornado roared through the small town I grew up in. […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that this year’s Society?s Silver T-Square award will be awarded to former NCS president Jeff Keane.From the NCS:The National Cartoonists Society?s Silver T-Square award is ?awarded, by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, to persons who have demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the […]
National Cartoonist Society President Tom Richmond has posted the cover art for this upcoming year’s NCS Reuben Awards weekend with caricatures of the line-up of speakers and special award winners. Family Circus cartoonist and former NCS President Jeff Keane will be the recipient of this year’s NCS ?Silver T-Square? for outstanding dedication to the organization. […]
Interesting report by NPR about New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro who submitted 610 cartoons to the New Yorker before he made his first sale.From NPR: “I went in, he looked at my stuff, I was just nervously sitting there waiting for him to say something,” Toro says. “And I remember he looked up and said, […]
Sad news from DreamWorks Animation. The LA Times reports that the animation studio has cut 500 jobs in a restructuring effort and will scale back its film production and close its studio in Redwood City.From the LA Times: The announcement is a bruising moment for Katzenberg, who once presided over one of the industry’s leading […]
Stephan Pastis often injects himself into his strip Pearls Before Swine, but yesterday he brought in his syndicate boss John Glynn. Michael Cavna asked Stephan what prompted him to mock Universal Uclick’s President and Editorial Director:So, what sparked this heartily applauded decision to get all passive-transgressive? ?Well, the truth is that Glynn is about as […]
This Modern World creator Dan Perkins (AKA Tom Tomorrow) has donated his collection of manuscripts, research materials, and ephemera to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. From the press release:When asked why he found OSU to be the ideal home for his collection, Perkins said: “At this point, it represents not only a history […]
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: With the release of the final “Hobbit” movie, I thought it was time to have Doug Adams on one more time! Always great to talk with the author of “The […]
Dan Piraro has marked the 30th anniversary doing his panel Bizarro. He has a sample of his earliest work on his blog.He writes:My career started 10 years before I owned a computer so my first decade of work was not digitized and I?ve no idea where my early work is in my archival catacombs. I?ll […]
I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before, but if I have not, and you’re a fan of The New Yorker cartoons, head over to Fans of The Cartoon Lounge – 11 episodes of New Yorker Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff talking about cartoons.
From the New York Daily News:One of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists killed in a bloody rampage against the Paris magazine was buried Thursday in a coffin covered in cartoon drawings. During a private funeral for Bernard (Tignous) Verlhac, the 57-year-old?s friends and family sketched final farewells on his casket as they remembered ?the King of […]
The Toonseum has announced it has found a new interim executive director to replace founder Joe Wos who left in September. From the press release: The ToonSeum is proud to announce Tammy Aupperle as the new interim executive director of Pittsburgh’s cartoon museum. Ms. Aupperle is the Principal of TB Aupperle Consulting, LLC, which specializes […]