The Comics Journal released its obituary of Paul Coker, Jr. today.Comics historian and Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago does a great job by Coker. This has perhaps the best accounting of Paul’s early career at Hallmark Cards. One of his first clients, the Kansas City-based Hallmark, hired him as a staff designer in 1955. […]
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication (aka Counterpoint Media) has expanded their roster of editorial cartoonists with the recent addition of Eric Allie and Mike Beckom.Their profiles and cartoon galleries join the original five (scroll down). Counterpoint Syndication now has seven – The Magnificent Seven?
Cracked Mazagine no longer prints its issues but it does maintain an active website and … This week on Cracked we’ll be talking all things Calvin and Hobbes A Short History Of ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’ The Last Great Newspaper Comic Well, none other than the authoritative voice of Slate calls Calvin and Hobbes “the last […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released an early look at the line-up of their 2022 AAEC Convention. The AAEC has been working closely with CXC on this fall’s gathering in Ohio, and we now have a preliminary schedule for our convention. A few highlights: Thursday, Oct. 6: Later, we’ll be gathering at a […]
“Ignorant, wrong, and racist, you Christian fascist enabler”Following up on that Marcel Boudreaux cartoon from earlier today, is Patrick Chappatte describing his Muslim maelstrom over a cartoon. For a few days last June, I was abundantly called a racist, or islamophobic, or both on Twitter. The culprit: a cartoon on the anti-abortion decision of the […]
Seems a number of comics have decided they’re “gonna leave this city, got to get away.” Serenity does not rule all the countryside. But mostly… Doonesbury © G.B.Trudeau Hi and Lois © Comicana Inc Baldo © Baldo Partnership Pearls Before Swine © Stephan Pastis Frazz © Jef Mallett Prickly City © Scott Stantis Mark Trail © North America […]
From Blacklantic: On August 16th, L’Acadie Nouvelle, described on Wikipedia as an independent French newspaper published in Caraquet, New Brunswick released this cartoon to the public….. Ha ha, right? Violence against women. Rape. Ownership of people through force. Classic comedy. Love it <- (this is sarcasm). Needless to say, the outrage is growing among communities, […]
The complete works of nationally recognized editorial cartoonist Randy Wicks, who drew pointed and poignant illustrations of local and worldwide life for The Signal, have been donated to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society. The cartoons [504 local and 3,182 national] donated range in size from the standard 8×10 to much larger formats and include […]
Before the 21st Century’s enthusiastic embrace of computer fonts, letters had personality.© NEA“A good lettering man is to a comic what a good umpire is to a baseball game: vital to the success of the finished product, but most effective when his contributions seamlessly blend into the background.” – Bruce CanwellLetterers Todd Klein and Alex […]
Heritage Auctions currently has the original art of a George Herriman/Krazy Kat daily strip, an Alex Raymond/Flash Gordon Sunday page, and a Bill Watterson/Calvin and Hobbes daily up for bid.The Herriman Krazy Kat is a very early sample of before the kat and mouse had their own strip, a time when they starred in a […]
As we jump all over the place let’s start with –The Are You Calvin or Are You Hobbes Quiz.Alison Doherty:I didn’t have the best introduction to Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip by Bill Watterson that ran between 1985 and 1995 … I thought it was about an annoying, naughty boy with a stuffed tiger […]
News Corp Australia, which publishes about 100 newspapers there, has decided to no longer carry comic strips and panels in its papers as of September 11, 2022. Editorial cartoons will remain.The News Corp Australia statement: Our editorial cartoonists remain as loved and valued as ever and continue to play a critical role in both our […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association is now calling for submissions for the 38th Stanley Awards.There are nine award categories: Animation Cartoonist, Book Illustrator, Caricaturist, Comic Book Artist, Comic Strip Cartoonist, Editorial/Political Cartoonist, Event Cartoonist, Illustrator, and Single Gag Cartoonist. (Cartoonist of the Year has different standards.)Eligibility:You must be a full member of the Australian Cartoonists Association […]
With content by cream-of-the-crop illustrators like Hal Foster, Frank Godwin, James Montgomery Flagg, F. R. Gruger, William Meade Prince, and Creig Flessel and such best-selling authors as William Saroyan, Daphne de Maurier, Sinclair Lewis, Franz Werfel, Ayn Rand, and Erle Stanley Gardner, it’s a wonder King Features Syndicate’s Book-of-the-Month comic strip isn’t better known today. […]
Cartoonist and advertising artist Kirk Luehrs has passed away. Kirk Allan (Bro Kirk) Luehrs March 23, 1941 – August 1, 2022 From the obituary: He was a talented artist & writer who worked in advertising and had a successful comic strip the Oregonian of newspapers. He attended the University of Washington and Mount Angel University, […]