A reminder that the deadline for entries to the National Cartoonists Society’s Divisional Reuben Awards ends in three days – February 2, 2022. The NCS has put up a video describing the selection/election process of the Reuben Awards.(As much as I love the procedural explanation I love the various interpretations of the NCS logo.) In today’s […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering…from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]
Bill Amend, creator of the FoxTrot comic strip, has been using his Twitter feed to dump on Fox News and, separately, the NFT culture with non-FoxTrot “editorials” drawn on napkins.Bill felt that his NFT slap had gained him enough new followers that he could afford to lose a few by chiding Fox News. I picked […]
Cartoonist/illustrator Tony Tallarico has passed away. Anthony F. (Tony) Tallarico September 20, 1933 – January 6, 2022From the Berndt Toast Gang Facebook page earlier today:The wonderful Tony Tallarico passed away late last night. Tony had a long and prolific career working in comics and children’s books. A consummate professional, Tony was always in demand and […]
For a long time, cartoonist and illustrator Kevin Cannon said, he didn’t have a distinctive style. He was too busy drawing things exactly the way customers wanted. But along the way, perhaps when he started working on graphic novels, Cannon developed the clean, simple style that prompted the folks at the Minnesota State Fair to […]
Graphic artist and cartoonist Lou Brooks has passed away. Louis (Lou) Brooks September 5, 1944 – November 21, 2021 From the obituary: Known to some as “The World’s Oldest Kid”, Lou began his career as a self-taught commercial illustrator, but over 50 years expanded his talents into other creative realms as writer, graphic designer, historian, […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies in association with The Beat is calling for submissions to their 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize in two categories: Best Print Comic and the Best Webcomic.Submissions in both categories must be received by January 30, 2022. Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in […]
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, “Cartoonists Run Amok,” is SOP.But this is an exhibit and greet & meet by NCS members of the Philadelphia Chapter Friday December 10 from 5–8:30pm, check out the National Cartoonists Society of Philadelphia’s gallery opening, curated by Moore’s own adjunct professor Andrea Beizer! Exhibit and sale of toons by […]
[T]he four official buttons of the 136th Winter Carnival were designed by local cartoonist and illustrator Kevin Cannon. He most recently designed the 2021 Minnesota State Fair poster. According to the Saint Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation: The Saint Paul Winter Carnival [since 1886] is the oldest winter festival in the United States. It predates […]
Tate Britain in London has defended the approach taken in its Hogarth and Europe exhibition (until 20 March 2022) following a wave of criticism focused on wall labels written by contemporary commentators, which one critic described as “wokeish drivel”. The museum’s director, Alex Farquharson, tells The Art Newspaper that “Tate Britain has both the confidence […]
WQED Education is offering a second season of an innovative and fun project – cartooning. Renowned Pittsburgh cartoonist Joe Wos takes students of all ages (and the young at-heart) through the creative steps of drawing cartoon characters, while sharing educational facts on the cartoon subjects. He’ll also teach a few artistic terms during each online […]
STAMPEDE cartoonist Jerry Palen has passed away. Jerry Joseph Palen July 9, 1943 – November 25, 2021 rancher, painter, sculptor, cartoonistFrom the obituary: In 1964, Jerry married Ann Prosser, his high school sweetheart whom he met in art class at Central High. The couple interrupted their studies at the University of Wyoming to move to […]
© Ward SuttonWard Sutton and The Village Voice start us off with a Thanksgiving Day comic. Roadside America takes us to Lancaster, Ohio where they celebrate local boy made good with the headline Richard Outcault: Inventor of the Comic Strip. Richard Outcault (1863-1928) was an American illustrator and creator of The Yellow Kid, the first published […]
‘I can explain the meaning of life, but not the meaning of New Yorker cartoons.’ So New Yorker gags are more philosophical than their British counterparts. Here, virtually anything goes — sick jokes, coarse jokes, badly drawn jokes, puns. The New Yorker has a metropolitan disdain for crudity and eschews wordplay. We reckon that if […]