Happy Birthday Frank Thorne, born June 16, 1930! Stroud: You’ve done syndicated strip work on Perry Mason. How did that come about? Thorne: I was 20 years old and walked in to King Features with my samples, they gave me the Perry Mason Daily and Sunday. Stroud: Was it a good gig? A strip seemed to be the […]
Robbins, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., recalls taking her weekly, 10-cent allowance to the neighborhood candy store and after studying the week’s selection, buying any comic that featured young girls and women. At home, she wrote and illustrated her own comics and dreamt of publication. Robbins insists she did not come from a dysfunctional […]
On May 5, 1895 the first color Hogan’s Alley appeared in The Sunday New York World. May 5th is now recognized as National Cartoonists Day. above from Ohio State University above via John Wells above: the EC Comics bullpen by Marie Severin above by way of Allan Holtz’s Strippers Guide above from the National Cartoonists […]
Tom Richmond has released the poster for the 74th Annual Reuben Awards.A couple of not-yet-announced awards by the National Cartoonists Society are revealed.Hy Eisman will be awarded the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. The Milton Caniff is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors. It is given for a lifetime of outstanding […]
A Case for Pencils asks cartoonists about the tools of the tradeNick Downes is the latest to take the survey, and he discounts my earlier theory (elsewhere today) that pencils are a thing of the past:I eschew electronic means of creating work as much as possible, as I enjoy the process of drawing, inking and […]
Art Van Rhyn, The Cambrian cartoonist for 30 years, has decided to retire. Kathy Tanner writing for both The Cambrian and the San Luis Obispo Tribune:He joined the newspaper’s cadre of freelancers in 1991, soon after I became a reporter there. The Cambrian’s editor asked Art to submit a cartoon, which he did. “The next week,” […]
Famed French cartoonist Claire Bretécher has passed away.Claire Bretécher April 7, 1940 – February 10*, 2020 * A number of early reports gave February 11 as the date of passing.“Women in comic strips are usually portrayed either as shrews or movie stars. But in real life, women, like men, are neither of these extremes, so […]
In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in the New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape. Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a message into the night sky: PER MY LAST EMAIL. Beneath them, the caption reads: “We’ve done all we can. It’s out of our hands now.” […]
Cartoonist David Sipress recently had one of his New Yorker cartoons co opted for use in a conceptual art exhibit. Or as David says, “I wuz robbed.”David, in The New Yorker, tells of the appropriation:This is my original drawing of the cartoon. Haendel took my cartoon and reproduced it exactly in a different medium: graphite, […]
Cartoonist Kenneth Mahood is a Senior Stripper! Born February 4, 1930.From the Irish Comics Wiki:After working at a solicitor’s office and as an apprentice lithographer, he became a full-time artist in 1949. He sold his first cartoon to Punch at eighteen, and became a regular contributor. As a painter, he had his first one-man exhibition […]
After five years and more than 300 caption-less cartoons, Bruce Plante and the Tulsa World have decided to end their Cartoon Caption Contest.Bruce Plante told The Daily Cartoonist that participation from amateur gag writers in the area was not as it had been in prior years, that he could use a free day during the […]
Tuesday January 28, 2020 saw the debut of a new cartoonist joining the Six Chix lineup.Bianca Xunise joined the panel this past Tuesday, and announced her new spot that same day:Scary Bradshaw @biancaxunise I’m thrilled to be brought on as a writer for Six Chix! I’ll also be the first black female cartoonist in their […]
Roz Chast has advice for young cartoonists:Chast said aspiring artists should not be deterred from their passion. “Listen to the people who understand what you’re trying to do, who could offer you good advice,” she said. “There are people not understanding what you’re trying to do and put you down and think you’re going in […]
Jerry Craft and his New Kid graphic novel make history.The School Library Journal reports:History was made at the 2020 Youth Media Awards in Philadelphia. A graphic novel has won the John Newbery Medal for the first time in its nearly 100-year history [emphasis added] as Jerry Craft earned the honor for New Kid.The Caldecott Medal […]
From ABC7:It’s not your average suspect sketch, but Riverside police are hoping a drawing will help them find a man who is suspected of robbing a caricature artist. Police say the suspect approached the victim at the Festival of Lights event in downtown Riverside on Dec. 5 and asked him for a portrait of himself. […]