Cartoonist Lynda Barry has joined the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) and the UW-Madison Department of Art as an assistant professor. From the University of Wisconsin – Madison: Barry’s journey in studying the creative process originally brought her to the university in 2012 as an artist in residence at the Arts Institute. But beginning this […]
Kudos to New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for showcasing the growing number of women in comics.From Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog: “I was given the opportunity ahead of time to select the presenters for each award to be given,” Donnelly tells Comic Riffs, “and I decided to choose all cartoonists who are women. More and […]
The Society of Illustrators has named Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith as their guest of honor at this year’s MoCCA Arts Festival on April 6–7 which will also include an exhibition of his work.From King Features Syndicate: Bill Griffith?s earliest work debuted in New York?s underground press in 1969, appearing in venues including the […]
Underground pioneering cartoonist Spain Rodriguez has passed away at the age of 72.From the San Francisco Chronicle: “He was an archetypal character, somewhere between crazy artist crossed with left-wing radical crossed with working-class Latino hood,” Crumb, who lives in France, said in a documentary made this year by Rodriguez’s wife, journalist and filmmaker Susan Stern. […]
Comicsbeat reports that Karl Stevens’s comic page Failure was cancelled because the strip referred to Bud Light as “Diluted Horse Piss.” Anheuser-Busch, which makes Bud Light, is an advertiser in the paper. The strip has been in the alt weekly publication since 2005.As noted in the comments, Tom Spurgeon contacted the editor of the Boston […]
Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of This Modern World is alerting fans and readers that the Village Voice is no longer running his cartoon. In a blog post he explains that the six month suspension of cartoons in the chain’s newspapers is now in its fourth year and had it not […]
Great interview by Rob Tornoe talking to Life in Hell creator Matt Groening on the recent retirement of his strip. Among the gems is a disclosure on the real reason why Matt retired his strip and his reflections on the value of print comics:Sample: Have you always been a fan of print? I love newspapers. […]
Despite great fame and fortune of creating and producing the longest running and most successful TV animation program in history, Matt Groening has quietly been drawing his alternative comic strip Life in Hell each week for 32 years. Until last week. He tell’s USA Today that the decision was to free up his time for […]
Over at The Comics Journal Bob Harvey looks at Bill Griffith’s 25 years of doing Zippy the Pinhead.“After a year of appearing daily in a large American newspaper,” Griffith said, “I thought that was as weird as things were going to get for me. Little did I know they were going to get even stranger. […]
As announced last week, Brian McFadden was tapped to be the featured regular cartoonist for the rework of the New York Times’ Week in Review. His first comic was entitled “The State of Unemployment” and appeared yesterday.Michael Cavna interviewed Brian about the new arrangement:“I’ve been given a lot of leeway,” says McFadden, whose online comics […]
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists.Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation.Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the only non-altie […]
This week’s edition of The Village Voice is their “The Comics Issue” containing 30 contributing artists to supplement the entire issue with comic frames, graphics and unique images. The issue focuses on the current state of cartooning. Ward Sutton did the cover and Roy Edroso writes the article “If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t […]
Daryl Cagle has posted an interview with Toubletown creator Lloyd Dangle about his recent decision to retire his feature. Why are you ending “Troubletown” now, after 22 years? I have changed over 22 years, and the thrill is gone. Having to read so much news and opinion to stay on top of events is a […]
Dan Perkins, best known as Tom Tomorrow, has announced that his strip is leaving Salon.com as of today where it has run since the mid-90s to run his work on the Daily Kos and also serve as that site’s Comic Editor. He notes that as the newspaper industry contracts, there hasn’t been an inverse expansion […]
Jen Sorenson is up now speaking about the “lighter side of impending doom” Jen Sorenson: showing a few of her cartoons. You can see Jen’s work here: http://bit.ly/9ZRvKm According to Jen Sorenson, if you want a cartoon to go viral, work in the topic of “iphone,” “palin,” or “Obama” Should alt weekly cartoons be considered […]