Gil Roth talks to Ohio State?s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Caitiln McGurk who curated “The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective”You can listen to the podcast here.Caitiln McGurk, fresh off of curating her first exhibition at Ohio State?s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Irresistible Force Meets the […]
This Saturday night will be a worldwide viewing and live-tweeting of the documentary “Stripped“. Anyone who has the film and wants to participate need to queue up the film and hit play at 7:00 pm PST and then jump over Twitter (computer, tablet, phone) and share your thoughts. Using the hashtag #strippedfilm you can see […]
Heritage Auction has a third Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes original for auction. The current auction runs through May 15 with a current bidding at $16,000 for the strip that ran May 9, 1987. The two previous Calvin and Hobbes original strips to go up for auction fetched a combined $268,875 ($203,150 for a Sunday […]
Daryl Cagle profiles Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart and his book about the sport of short track racing.Most readers of Cagle.com will instantly recognize the cartoons of Bob Englehart, the award-winning cartoonist of the Hartford Courant. What you many not know is Bob is also a talented writer, and just released a new book about […]
From Allgov:The carnage of layoffs resulting from the Internet age has been quite gruesome for journalism employment, with the U.S. having lost 30% of its paid media workers. According to the Pew Research Journalism Project, print publications facing dwindling subscription rates laid off 17,000 reporters and editors from 2006 to 2012. The reduction saw the […]
Last weekend, here in my neck of the woods, was the Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience (FanX) – a sister Con to the Comic Con that started last summer. It boasted over 100,000 attendees. The event was more geared toward connecting fans with entertainment celebrities, but it was still a comic con. Tickets go on […]
A great post by Wes Molebash:Michael Jantze left that comment on my Instagram, and I?ve been chewing on it for awhile. I like looking at other artists? sketchbooks online, and I tend to get intimidated by them. To me, sketchbooks are utilitarian. Sometimes I put some finished art in there, but – for the most […]
David Silverman, who directed The Simpson’s Movie and co-directed Monsters Inc., is working on a live-action/animated hybrid feature film of the Pink Panther character. Since the Pink Panther was introduced in 1963, most of the movies have been live-action films centered on Inspector Clouseau with references to a pink diamond nicknamed “The Pink Panther”. Most […]
R Stevens was profiled in Split Sider about his comic Diesel Sweeties and his latest book Bacon Is a Vegetable, Coffee Is a Vitamin TP.You?ve been doing this for years and made thousands of comics. What?s the appeal of collecting some of them into themed books? My work is way too scattered and unplanned to […]
Missed this, but nonetheless very cool. Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce was on the Today show as the Guinness Book of World Records certified that a panel of Big Nate cartoons drawn by schoolchildren from around the country broke the world record as the largest cartoon strip by a team. The previous record was 3,320 […]
The Daily Beast is reporting that Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will be returning to television after a four year hiatus – but the return is without Aaron who has developed another live-action show called Black Jesus.As the world now knows, The Boondocks will be returning for a fourth season, but I will not be returning […]
The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the winners of this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. In the category of editorial cartooning, Jen Sorensen took the win in the category of newspaper circulation over 100,000. Angelo Lopez of the Philippines Today took the prize for newspapers under 100,000.Congratulations to Jen and […]
Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observe has been named the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning “for his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style.”This year’s finalists include David Horsey of the Los Angeles Times and Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake Tribune. Judges noted David’s “skillful […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced the date for this year’s convention/festival in San Francisco, CA. AAEC President (and convention host) Mark Fiore is branding the convention as Satire Fest (same acronym as San Francisco) to build public interest and promotion. Most of the events will be open to the public. Expect sessions […]
Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that for the first time ever, online advertising has surpassed broadcast advertising. Also of import: for a third year in a row, mobile advertising revenue growth is measured with triple digits. ?Our survey confirms that we are fully in transition to the post-desktop era,? said David Silverman, Partner, PwC U.S. ?Triple […]