The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) and Lalo Alcaraz are conducting a virtual discussion tonight (6/29) entitled “Art is Power.” From the Facebook page for the event:WHAT: IMMI’ARTivism – a conversation about art imitating life with three influential artists and how their work relates to activism and social justice.WHO: Chicano Cartoonist, Lalo […]
The Charles M. Schulz Museum is hosting a July 27th virtual discussion with cartoonists on “how their work explores marginalized identities and self-discovery.” Participants include Maia Kobabe, Ajuan Mance, and Bishakh Som.Maia Kobabe: Kobabe’s autobiography, Gender Queer, is a 2020 ALA Alex Award winner and Stonewall-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book.Ajuan Mance: Mance is a professor of African […]
Award-winning cartoonist Ruben Bolling is the guest on the latest episode of Gil Roth’s “Virtual Memories Show.”From Gil’s site:Herblock Award-winning cartoonist Ruben Bolling joins the show to celebrate 30 years of his comic, Tom The Dancing Bug! We talk about his two new collections, Into the Trumpverse and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader (Clove Press), and how pandemic-uncertainty means you’ll need to pre-order those […]
The Hollywood TV/Film industry news site Deadline is reporting that Nickelodeon has won a bidding war for Phoebe and Her Unicorn for a “multi-platform franchise across an TV animated series, movies and more.”From Deadline:Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment are partnering with Bridget McMeel of Andrews McMeel Entertainment to produce Phoebe and Her Unicorn content. Lee brought the […]
Over at Latin Heat Entertainment, they’re profiling (in a good way) cartoonist and animation writer/producer/consultant Lalo Alcaraz.From the piece:At this point in his career, Alcaraz has come full circle, from a child who watched cartoons on television wanting to see Latinos on television, to helping create television shows with positive Latino characters and storylines. Twitter: @laloalcaraz
The Gray Lady profiles the retiring Al Jaffee.From reporter George Gene Gustines‘ piece:The latest edition of the smart-alecky bible (MAD Magazine) of Boomer humor, billed as the “Special All Jaffee Issue” and available Tuesday, is filled with reprinted and previously unpublished work by or about Mr. Jaffee, the creator of two signature features in the […]
Coming up later this week, multidimensional cartoonists Ed Steckley and Jason Chatfield will be “webinar-ing” on the Internet at noon (PT) on Thursday.From Wacom’s site:Join New York based cartoonists and illustrators, Jason Chatfield and Ed Steckley, as they share their illustration chops and wonderful sense of humor. Jason and Ed will delight you with their […]
The Spokesman-Review in Spokane (Wash.) is hosting a conversation with Stephan Pastis as a part of their virtual Northwest Passages Book Club tomorrow (June 11th) at 2:00 (PT)/4:00 (CT)/5:00 (ET).From their site:In addition to his collection “Pearls Go to Hollywood” being released this past spring, Disney+ began streaming a movie version of Pastis’ children’s book […]
Over at Geoff Grogan’s “Blockhead” podcast is a two-part podcast with “Stone Soup’s” Jan Eliot. Part One interview starts at the 17:15 mark.From the “Blockhead” site:Episode 42: This fall will mark 25 years in syndication for Jan Eliot’s warm and funny comic strip, “Stone Soup”, about two working-mom sisters living life and raising families just […]
NCS President Jason Chatfield has just sent an email to the members regarding this Sunday’s “Big Thank You Search of 2020” that will feature syndicated and web cartoonists including various hidden objects inside their comics as a way to salute first responders in these crazy, crazy times. Here’s the email in its entirety:Dear NCS Members,Thank […]
Ruben Bolling the cartoonist behind the award-winning weekly comic “Tom the Dancing Bug” has launched “Tom the Dancing Bug for Justice Fundraiser.” Ruben is promising perks to the top donor and to two random donors that include recreation of “Dancing Bug”-related art and/or even customized art.For more info: https://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2020/06/the-tom-the-dancing-bug-for-justice-fundraiser.html
Episode 10 of “Satire Can Save Us” features two of this year’s Pulitzer-Prize finalists: Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher talks to Academy-Award winning cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz.Alcaraz: “I started this when I was growing up as a kid and I never saw images of other … Mexican people. ”
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is standing up to the Trump re-election campaign’s removal of a Nick Anderson cartoon from the online marketplace RedBubble.From the CBLDF site:On May 18, the Daily Kos reported that Redbubble removed products featuring Anderson’s cartoon “The Trump Cult,” based on allegations of trademark infringement from Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. The […]
WBUR’s “Here and Now” interviews the new cartoonist for “Heart of the City,” Christina “Steenz” Stewart.From the WBUR site:Christina “Steenz” Stewart is one of the few women of color to draw a daily nationally syndicated comic strip now that she’s taken over “Heart of the City” — a comic about a white girl growing up in Philadelphia.Steenz (@oheysteenz) […]
The President of Meredith College in North Carolina is apparently a comics’ fan. At 1:21 of Jo Allen’s commencement speech to the students, she brings up the backstory of Jef Mallett’s ‘Frazz’ and cites the dialogue from the April 17, 2020 comic.