Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]
Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away.JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography:Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being about forty […]
There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial.Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings.Hennessy was the artist Stephen Colbert used for an […]
Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012 The California Museum, in association with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is presenting a retrospective exhibit honoring Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin.The exhibit, running August 14 – October 14, 2018, will coincide with the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, California the weekend of September […]
Dan Saad hasn’t been out of print since college. When U.S. newspaper circulation peaked at more than 60 million in the 1980s, his editorial cartoons graced the pages of The News-Herald. Three decades later, they still do.Dan’s AAEC profile says he “worked as the editorial cartoonist at the student newspaper, The South End, from 1972-1977.” […]
CommentatorsSomeone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts.The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s Yesterday’s Papers, […]
Gary Varvel in the Public Square Gary Varvel is the guest on this weekend’s Story in the Public Square. Editorial cartoonists use illustration to offer a different perspective on the news and in doing so they challenge us to think in new ways. Gary Varvel brings a conservative perspective to his cartoons for the IndyStar.Story […]
AwardsArt Spiegelman, on August 12, will be the recipient of the MacDowell Medal. Wikipedia: The Edward MacDowell Medal is an award which has been given since 1960 to one person annually who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture and the arts. It is given by The MacDowell Colony, the first artist residency program […]
Walt Wallet returned to the Old Comics Home today in an impressive panel by Jim Scancarelli.Many cartoonists are lovers of the classic comic strips and occasionally pay homage to them in their own comic strips. Mark Tatulli’s Lio, Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine, Mike Curtis and Joe Staton’s Dick Tracy, Bill Griffith’s Zippy, and Patrick […]
Joining a growing list of newspapers that have forsaken the idea that the Sunday Comics Section is a circulation builder, the Danville, Kentucky Advocate Messenger will soon drop the Sunday section.Beginning Aug. 20, The Advocate-Messenger will change print publication days to Tuesday through Saturday, no longer producing a printed edition on Mondays. The move to […]
A political cartoonist’s career began at The Daily Iowan and launched him into publishing in such outlets as The Washington Post and USA Today. Now, he faces blindness. Joe Sharpnack’s first “Campus Zero,” ran in The Daily Iowan on Nov. 3, 1986. (Daily Iowan Archives)Joe Sharpnack headed to The Daily Iowan with a lifetime of […]
Jim Carrey’s Anti-Trump CartoonsSince 2016, Carrey has created more than a hundred cartoons protesting the Trump Administration, a pastime that borders on the obsessive. “I fight him to the end,” he said recently, citing the Bhagavad Gita.New Yorker contributor Charles Bethea sits down with Jim Carrey about his spare time hobby of editorial cartooning for […]
A week ago I reported that Avi Katz had been fired from his regular Jerusalem Report assignment because he posted an offensive cartoon on his Facebook page. At the time I could find no sure report that the Jerusalem Report had printed the political cartoon. That has changed.Since that time it has been established that […]
1966 – What’s Not So Funny About The FunniesAs noted here it was fifty years ago that Franklin, a young African-American, was introduced into Peanuts. While not a first, it was rare for a non-stereotypical black person to found in the mainstream (read white) comic strips of the day, especially as a regular (or semi-regular) […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger withdrew and apologized for an unflattering caricature of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger apologized over the weekend for a “body shaming” caricature of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders he produced that was originally set to run in Vermont’s Rutland Herald newspaper. “That particular cartoon is being […]