For over three years Gary Price has supplied the illustration for The Syncopated Times Jazz Birthday of the Month feature. With the May 2019 issue Gary’s contributions to “the only monthly newspaper focused on hot jazz, ragtime, and swing” comes to an end.This month I’m bidding farewell to one of the elements that has added […]
About a week ago, after having the violent realization that I’ve been doing everything wrong, I came across a blog written by a guy named Jason Chatfield. As it turns out, Chatfield, comedian/vice president of The National Cartoonists Society/cartoonist for The New Yorker and Mad Magazine, is a productivity machine that knows the failure epiphany […]
Kevin Fagan’s last name is printed in 200 different newspapers every week, but to his neighbors in Mission Viejo, he’s just a regular guy. Fagan can usually be found in his home studio, using his dip pen and ink to create new story-lines for his long-running comic series, Drabble. The series runs every day and has been […]
By 1965, the cartoonist was making a name for himself along the freelance circuit, with work in the Saturday Evening Post, The American Legion, Look and Collier’s. To hear him tell, it was a rootless existence. Several years later he’d sell his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1969, the publication he’d come to learn is […]
The New York Times International published a political cartoon that many are claiming is anti-Semitic.The cartoon itself was drawn by political cartoonist António Moreira Antunes of the Lisbon, Portugal-based newspaper Expresso.The New York Times admitted the image was offensive and pulled it from its syndication service, but did not quite apologize for running it: A number […]
On May 18, at the Reuben Award Dinner, it will be revealed who wins the National Cartoonists Society divisional awards and who will be named Cartoonist of the Year. The NCS also presents other awards, sometimes revealing the honoree ahead of time.Animator and cartoonist Floyd Norman has been named the recipient of the Milton Caniff […]
With critics of the New York Times continuing to call for action against the Times and the editors responsible for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon, the New York Times International again published a cartoon critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours after the Times apologized for the first cartoon. Some are saying the above is a […]
Widespread condemnation of the New York Times International continues as people react to the cartoon it published earlier this week. Some of the disapproval is honest, heartfelt, and personal; some is just blatantly political using it as an opportunity to blast “the other side.” The Jerusalem Post and Townhall report on reactions, mostly avoiding the […]
The big NCSFest is only two and a half weeks away. In anticipation the NCSFest has released their program magazine online.If the mission was to be informative about the gala celebration and to get people amped about being there, they succeeded!The magazine has a complete program guide (go easy on those showing up for panels […]
In 1977 Stan Lee achieved a lifelong goal of writing a hit comic strip. The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip by Lee and Romita, debuting in newspapers on January 3, 1977, was a success from the get-go. This led Marvel Comics and the Register and Tribune Syndicate to quickly develop another comic strip.They decided that the […]
From Denverite:It’s a stretch to call the cartoon mailed to Denver voters this month a comic strip because it’s not exactly funny and it’s also sort of confusing. The clip-arty mailer paints a world in which feline lobbyists — fat cats — get cozy with a human mayor in Colorado. Presumably the cartoon politician is […]
So – there I am reading about book deals on the Publishers Weekly site, specifically to read about forthcoming Will McPhail projects:Rosenthal’s second big deal of the week was a preempt for two books from writer and cartoonist Will McPhail, whose work for the New Yorker has earned him the National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award […]
The San Diego Comics Con International has announced the nominees for the 2019 Will Eisner Awards. The winners, determined by tabulating the voting of comic book professionals, will be revealed July 19, 2019 at an awards ceremony during the San Diego Comic Con.The awards are comic book oriented – but there are a couple categories […]
Lynley Stace takes “a closer look at why the new Nancy cartoons by the pseudonymous Olivia Jaimes work so well for so many. In short, why are these minimalist snapshots funny?”Scott Dikkers, cartoonist and founding editor of The Onion, all jokes fall into one of eleven categories. 1. Irony – Intended meaning is opposite of literal […]
In 1957 Mell Lazarus got his Miss Peach comic strip into newspapers. The next year Mell joined the National Cartoonists Society.Yearly dues in January 1958 were $35, yearly dues now, in 2019, are $225. (The inflation calculator puts that 1958 $35 at $307.86 in today’s dollars.)You can join the NCS for less than Mell did […]