Pittsburgh Yinzer Greetings, creator of Yinzer Cards and Yinzer Bars, has created a special chocolate candy bar to salute Pittsburgh’s essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceeds from the sales of the “Thank You” Yinzer Bar will benefit Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation’s Pandemic Grant Program.Yinzer Bar was founded by Pittsburgh comedian Jim Krenn, KDKA Radio’s […]
International cartoonist and illustrator Kiraz has passed away.Edmond “Kiraz” KirazianAugust 25, 1923 – August 11, 2020 From the notice: The cartoonist, known in particular for his illustrations of “Parisiennes” published in many magazines, died on Tuesday at the age of 96, his companion told AFP. “Edmond Kiraz, born in Cairo on August 25, 1923, passed away […]
Cartoonist – artist – homeless advocate Ronnie Goodman has passed away.Ronnie Goodman(Ronald Lamont Goodman July 25, 1960 – August 7, 2020) above: “Woman at Work”Well-known San Francisco street artist and social warrior for the homeless died on the streets where he lived. From the Mission Local: Ronnie Goodman, a homeless artist and distance runner who has […]
The National Cartoonist Society, in association with the NCS Foundation, has set up a website in preparation of their September 12 cartooning and Reuben Awards celebration, which because of the Coronavirus pandemic is necessarily online. We will be hosting our “NCSFest Online” event across the full day with virtual sessions from a cavalcade of talented […]
President of National Cartoonists Society, New Yorker and Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian, former president of the Australian Cartoonists Association, MAD magazine and editorial cartoonist, and on and on. Medium’s recent interview with Jason Chatfield begins with an impressive list of achievements credited to this young man. Excerpt from the interview: Q4) When you […]
The new New Yorker cover is by 99-year-old Pop Artist Wayne Thiebaud.The New Yorker interviews their cover artist, who will turn 100 this November. Tell me a little about how a boy who wanted to be a cartoonist became a painter. Well, I still do cartoons for myself. I love cartoons—they are so much a […]
It seems Adam Zyglis’ homage to Bob Mankoff was just the tip. Not long after Ed Wexler also used a classic comic image, with attribution.And while this kind of stuff is fairly common, today seems to be particularly guest-starry.Mike’s Comic Strip of [To] Day already mentioned the Barney and Clyde strip of August 9:Mike also […]
Mary Worth artist June Brigman talks to SYFY Wire mostly about her comic books (Power Pack, Captain Ginger) but does speak of her comic strip work: We also talked about her present-day work as the artist on the newspaper strip Mary Worth, which she does in concert with her husband and inker/colorist/letterer Roy Richardson. Working […]
Woke, the Hulu series, debuts August 9; here’s the extended trailer: In Woke, Lamorne Morris plays Keef, a Black cartoonist who is on the verge of success. He is aware of his cultural identity, but doesn’t want it to define him but when he has an unfortunate run-in with the police while minding his own business, things […]
Betty Boop debuted 90 years ago with the August 9, 1930 release of Dirty Dizzy Dishes.Animation Magazine has a slight overview of Betty Boop at 90.The Forward has a look at creator Max Fleischer.Via YouTube is that introductory Dirty Dishes:After the Hayes Code toned down Betty’s scandalous behavior her popularity never recovered, though she has […]
Potty mouths are rare, if not nonexistent, in syndicated newspaper comics. Potty humor, on the other hand, has become a modern-day standard – usually involving dogs or other animals.Sometimes cartoonists feature humans and their bathroom habits.above: Oh, Brotherabove: MarvinGreg Evans and his Luann comic strip has been known to dive into that area:Showing a baby […]
Editorial cartoonists often take universally recognizable images and twist them into a useful satirical drawing for sarcastic and humorous purposes. So it was that Adam Zyglis appropriated a very famous Bob Mankoff cartoon for an effective lampoon of current events. Said Adam:I believe Trump’s desire to postpone the election was really his way of saying […]
Erik Larsen will parody comic strips in issue #252 of his Savage Dragon comic book.On Twitter Erik announced the comic strips he would be highlighting: Finally nailed down the 11 comic strip parodies that’ll appear in Savage Dragon #252. They are: Family Circus Peanuts Cathy Doonesbury Foxtrot Dick Tracy Thimble Theater Calvin & Hobbes Rex […]
A news site ran an article about the current foofaraw over a Six Chix panel headlined The url for the Black Enterprise article also included that bit of misinformation:Over 100 Newspapers Drop Pro-BLM, Pro-Mask Comic by Black CartoonistThe article itself notes only thatA comic panel was removed from several newspapers [emphasis added] after readers called […]
Political cartoonist and The Nib mastermind Matt Bors is moving to Canada. No it’s not a political statement, it’s a financial and emotional statement. Matt Bors has had a bad year. Yeah, so has everyone. And sure, his year has included getting a Pulitzer Prize nomination for Editorial Cartooning—his second—and, in January, the birth of his […]