How closely is the McClellan clan based on your family? Too close — way too close. I’m pretty much writing stories about growing up. Ask my mother, she’d have a lot to say about it. Wallace appeared for a few years at gocomics.com before it got picked up for newspaper distribution. When did it launch […]
As a scholar who studies social media and memetics, I wonder if political cartoons are the best way to connect with today’s diverse readership. Many crave searing, cutting political commentary – and they’re finding it in internet memes. What if internet memes were elevated – not only as a serious art form but also as […]
The M.P. Baker Library of Panola College will host [hosted] an exhibit of cartoons, illustrations, and associated artwork by Donnie Pitchford from March 19, 2019 to April 18, 2019 in the Fay Allison Gallery. Most recently he has worked as a freelancer for a variety of publications and art projects including serving as guest writer […]
Kenosha News editor Bob Heisse was stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand was Corporate orders to set the comics pages as ordered. The other hand had upset local readers wanting their cartoonist back in the paper.As regular readers of our comics page know, the Kenosha News recently changed its […]
Today, King Features, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular iconic characters, announces they’ve joined Red Nose Day in their charitable mission to end child poverty in America and around the world. Red Nose Day 2019 takes place on Thursday, May 23.2019 marks Red Nose Day’s fifth year in the US. The […]
Then one year later when he decided to go it alone as an independent freelance illustrator…The small company grew as he worked freelance for various magazines for many years. Unfortunately, the rise of digital art, computer graphics put him out of business. “They wanted slick computer graphics instead, hand illustrations were no longer needed.” To […]
Cartoonist Steve McGarry says that whenever he runs into people who insist they have no interest in the world of cartoons he likes to prove them wrong. “I don’t care who you are,” says McGarry, the president of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, which will debut the inaugural NCS Fest in Huntington Beach this weekend. […]
Foreign media outlets that frequently incite against Israel are much more likely than others to slip into antisemitism. The recent cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published by The New York Times is a case in point. Yet this daily was only one example among many.Manfred Gerstenfeld, for The Algemeiner, examines recent samples of […]
Animator vs. Cartoonist: Drawing Looney Tunes Characters From Memory.The gang tries to draw Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Marvin The Martian from memory. How well would -you- do?A BuzzFeed Video.
In the beginning, there was “the word.” And then Ben Franklin added cartoons to your favourite newspaper. It is 265 years ago this month that the then-loyal British citizen Franklin published an edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette with a woodcut print of a snake cut into segments with the caption, “Join or Die.” It was […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) Paperback Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974 30 Years Of Matt Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1947-1949 We Are […]
Saturday, May 18, will celebrate the best in a wide range of cartooning categories with The Reuben Award Dinner and Presentation Ceremonies.The people at Hogan’s Alley think they have the inside track as to who will win.For example:NOMINEES FOR THE GREETING CARD DIVISION AWARD: Scott Nickel, Maria Scrivan and Dan Walsh. After a one-year hiatus, […]
The NCSFest will begin this week Wednesday. And Steve McGarry is why.For McGarry’s festival, comic art will be nearly everywhere downtown. Original work will be displayed at select businesses along Main Street and at 5th and PCH, popular artwork will be on display for free under the Big Tent at Pier Plaza, and more than […]
Pogo, Howard the Duck, Snoopy, Bill the Cat, and other comic characters have had runs at being the President of the United States.Yes, even Alfred E. Neuman. Now Alfred E. Neuman has been introduced into the 2020 race by President Trump.“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump told POLITICO in an exclusive […]
Famed Spanish illustrator Jordi Longarón has passed away.Jordi Longarón i Llopart (aka: Jorge Longarón) February 1 November 29, 1933 – May 10, 2019 Spanish comic artist Jordi Longarón made a name for himself throughout Europe; in the United States he was known as Jorge Longarón, artist of the Friday Foster comic strip. above: the first Friday […]