Daily News editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall is among the journalists Florida Senator Marco Rubio is accusing of delighting in the current coronavirus pandemic.From Marco Rubio’s Twitter account:“Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism” A later tweet revealed […]
As Clay Jones says:It’s not one of his animations,It’s not one of his “watch me draw” videos,It’s not one of his print cartoons,No, it’s not any of the things we are used to enjoying from Clay.Clay sez:Check out my very first political cartoon video. It’s not a print cartoon, animation, or watching me draw. It’s […]
“Thirty years of avoiding other human beings . . . validated!”Read Chris Ware‘s comic strip in The New Yorker.Also: Chris Ware talks about his April 6, 2020 New Yorker COVID-19 cover.
On the occasion of an upcoming book…Bado’s Blog reviews the Duncan Macpherson biograpy. In northern New Zealand… The Times this week began featuring cartoons from Aucklander Isabelle Russell. In anticipation of his forthcoming book…Tom Gauld is interviewed by Creative Review. Short book review from Publishers Weekly here. In 2006 a blogger called Charles Lavoie wrote that every New […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: 3/27/20 UPDATE: The 2020 AAEC+ACC cartoonist convention has been officially cancelled. Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, said, “We just heard today from the Canadian Feds, who were hosting a big chunk of the convention, that they must postpone until an undetermined date. We are […]
Cartoonist/artist Ted Mullings has passed away.Harry Theodore (Ted) Mullings April 7, 1926 – April 12, 2019* commercial artist, painter, cartoonistFrom the obituary:Ted was a commercial artist for the Climax Molybdenum Company and the owner of The Little Cottage Art Gallery in Leadville. He was a member of the Ski Club in Climax, a member of the […]
Cartoonist Albert Uderzo has passed away.Alberto Aleandro (Albert) Uderzo April 25, 1927 – March 24, 2020 From The Guardian obituary:Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo has died at the age of 92, his family has announced. The French comic book artist, who created the beloved Asterix comics in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny, died on Tuesday. He […]
Chen Weng knows from coronavirus hot spots. The artist was born in Wuhan and now lives in Seattle, so it was only natural that her online comics would begin to steer toward commentary about covid-19. “People in the rest of the world might not have known much at the time, but it was all people […]
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the 2019 NCS Divisional Award nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards.All nominees for all categories at the National Cartoonists Society site.Good Luck to all!
After its Spring 2020 issue Playboy magazine will stop printing regular editions in the U.S.“We have decided that our Spring 2020 Issue, which arrives on U.S. newsstands and as a digital download this week, will be our final printed publication for the year in the U.S.”They addPlayboy will now operate on a “digital first publishing […]
above: Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press With all the important places closing, some comics people are trying to make our lives a bit more tolerable while we all huddle at home shelter in place. Cartoonist Joe Wos has his YouTube channel for kids of all ages to learn How To Toon. As libraries and bookstores […]
Kids’ author Mo Willems is here to make Mondays a little better for a while: Starting today, he’ll release a new “Lunch Doodle” video each Monday at 1 PM.The Kennedy Center and Mo Willems informs:When I became the Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, I didn’t realize the most impactful word in that title would be ‘Residence.’ With […]
In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies.A Coronavirus Library Update from Publishers Marketplace:Overdrive tells libraries it is “assembling a series of digital content options to respond to the challenges your communities are facing.” For academic libraries and customers, Proquest issued a list of over 50 publishers that have joined in […]
Al Jaffee, the cartoonist responsible for you not being able to find a mint condition copy of MAD Magazine, celebrates his 99th birthday on March 13, 2020. Happy Birthday Al! Thanks for the laughs.The Official Al Jaffee Website.Al Jaffee’s Twitter Feed. Al Jaffee’s comic book credits from 1942 up. A selection of Al Jaffee Tall […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]