Cartoonist and newspaperman Ray Collins has passed away.Ramon Ward (Ray) Collins March 17, 1931 – March 28, 2021 From the obituary: After Korea, Ray returned to work at the Seattle Post Intelligencer where he had started as a copy boy upon leaving school. This led to a 30-year career with the newspaper, initially working in the […]
Cartoonist Scott Adams has created and is selling two NFT versions of a Dilbert comic strip – identical except for a curse word added to one of them.On his twitter feed Scott explains: For those who wonder, NFTs are digital art that is collectible because the original is registered on the blockchain. Yes, anyone can […]
Updating some items that were posted here earlier.photo via Doug GilfordThe New York Times has printed their obituary for Frank Jacobs. Frank Jacobs, an inventive satirist who in his 57 years at Mad magazine mocked popular culture and politics, often in pitch-perfect verse and lyrics, died on April 5 in Tarzana, Calif… Mr. Jacobs brought […]
I’m hanging up my hat. Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to say, I’m putting down my pen. Either way, I have decided to retire. But not from this column. Don’t worry about that. I still plan on contributing rants, musings, guidance and advice on the topic of writing for the foreseeable future. No, […]
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced the Judges Inductees who are automatically entered into their Will Eisner Hall of Fame; and 16 nominees, four of which will be voted into the Hall by comics people across a variety of professions (cartoonists, editors, comic store owners, historians, etc.).As is usual a number of inductees and nominees […]
The Bottom Ten Warner Bros. Cartoons © Warner Bros.Instead of listing his Top Ten animation expert Jerry Beck lists his least favorite.Of the over 1000 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts – I honestly could find something of value in 990 of them. Yes, even the ones pre-1936 and the ones post-1964. That said, there […]
Pop artist and cartoonist Chris Yambar has passed away.Rev. Christopher David (Chris) Yambar July 4, 1961 – March 27, 2021 From the obituary: Chris was called to the ministry at age 19 to work with inner-city youth … he published Manna Underground Press / The Activist, a newspaper specializing in arts, music, and social commentary, from […]
Young Liza had succeeded in fulfilling a lifelong dream.In 1979 Liza Donnelly joined three other women as the female force of New Yorker cartoonists; there were more than ten times that many male cartoonists contributing to the magazine then.Not long before that she was made aware that she was a “woman cartoonist,” prior to that […]
Content syndicates are businesses that syndicate content to businesses that need content for their platforms— newspapers, magazines, tv and radio stations, websites, etc. King Features Syndicate Editorial Director for Comics Tea Fougner has tweeted a short essay on current syndication practices with a bit of history. The way syndication works today is that we are […]
A year ago conservative cartoonist Ben Garrison created an editorial cartoon illustrating a conspiracy theory involving Bill Gates and Covid-19 and vaccines.© GrrrGraphicsThat was in March of 2020, now a year later an altered form of the cartoon has appeared.According to Business Insider Elon Musk tweeted out the altered comic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk used […]
Every evening, just as many people are shutting down their computers for the day and starting to think about supper, Dan Martin is gearing up to complete his daily drawing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: a fresh depiction of the newspaper’s Weatherbird. The artistic process gets going once the news editor sends him a […]
That last panel of Hi and Lois last week kicked off a week of comic character cameos.With barely a dozen appearances in her own strip since the new year began 100 days ago, Mary Worth has taken to appearing elsewhere. Here she’s crashing a Hootin’ Holler poker game. © King Features SyndicateMary is instantly recognizable […]
In the Spring of 1946 Ed Dodd introduced the world to the “handsome hero and outdoor man.”Mark Trail was a nature-loving he-man of the old school, and he remained in that conservative mold from Ed Dodd and Tom Hill through Jack Elrod and up to James Allen.And then, twenty years into the new millenium, the […]
In 1985 Jim Borgman was a nominee for The Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning, Jeff MacNelly took The Prize home that year. Six years later, in 1991, Jim was again a finalist. That year, 30 years ago today, the Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist won the prestigious award. Jim knew he was a finalist for the Pulitzer. […]
Spring Break Cartooning with Mike LynchABOUT THE CLASS: Make comics with professional cartoonist Mike Lynch. In this week-long course, we will learn to create characters, animals, dinosaurs, monsters, sharks, superheroes, aliens, word balloons (BOOM! POW! CRASH!) and more, and then put these drawing skills together to make our own comic book stories together via Zoom. […]