Things come in three, right? The Baby Blues guys Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have launched a blog. It has a good mix of content for fans as well as those interested in the inner-workings of a cartoonist. Betty Boop now has a website. She is, as the website says, “Queen of Cartoons, the First […]
Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast – which owns Newsweek, has announced that December 31 will be the last print edition of Newsweek. Starting in early 2013, it will be called Newsweek Global will only be available via digital devices and the web.We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and […]
Fast Company’s Matthew E. May profiles Scott McCloud and how some of his theories of comics apply to the business world. And as for the “invisible art,” we learned that the magic and mystery of comics does not live in what is drawn. Rather, it is the “gutter”–the white space between the frames–that holds the […]
Tom Spurgeon, the editor/writer at The Comics Reporter, has donated a sizable personal collection of 1,300 mini-comics to The Dylan Williams Collection at the The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.From the press release: As soon as The Dylan Williams Collection was announced, Spurgeon answered the call for donations. “I admired Dylan […]
David Paccia, who runs the excellent blog David Wasting Paper, has created a cartooning contest for junior artists. The contest was created to honor his mother who passed away in May. The contest is open to artists between the ages of 13 and 16 who have an interest in cartooning and/or animation. The contest runs […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has released a poster paying tribute to Life in Hell and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. About 20 cartoonists contributed cartoons to the poster. The artists include: Sergio Aragones, Alison Bechdel, Ruben Bolling, Jim Borgman, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Jordan Crane, Tom Gammill, Sammy Harkham, Peter Kuper, Carol Lay, Bobby […]
One of the attendees of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was Mike Cope who has uploaded 240 photos he took of the event. It?s worth a gander and a mental note to make sure you attend the next one. By the reports I’ve heard from those who went, it was a great event.
ToonSeum founder Joe Wos is attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. When completed the maze will measure over 4 feet high by 30 feet long. The fully solvable maze is filled with cartoon illustrations.From the press release: The inception for the project began a few years ago when Joe […]
Isabella Bannerman, Monday’s artist for Six Chix, was awarded this year’s UCS Editorial Cartoon Contest sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. This year’s theme was the role science should play in American democracy. Isabella’s winning cartoon featured below.
A cartoon by on display at the caricature museum in the German city of Kassel is raising a ruckus. The cartoon depicts Jesus hanging on the cross and words coming down from heaven, “Hey, you. I f—– your mother.” Religious officials have called it offensive and have asked the museum to remove it to which […]
What a great project. Hope the Cartoon Art Museum can raise what it needs to make the exhibit possible.
New book edited by Gary Groth called “Naked Cartoonists” will be released in October. My initial reaction was “really? people want to see cartoonists naked?” After perusing a few pages through Amazon’s preview feature, my reaction was, “what a fun project. Well done.”Cartoons (at least the ones in the preview) are safe. Lots of butt […]
Mark Anderson on the life of a freelance cartoonistAndertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson offers a peek at the challenging life of making it as a freelance cartoonist. The life of a freelance cartoonist is never boring. Fun, frightening, exhilarating, frustrating, goofy, overwhelming, and surprising, sure, but never boring. For me the key has been balancing catering […]
The Comics Journal’s Michael Dean writes a more in-depth piece on the recent announcement that MoCCA is merging with Society of Illustrators. In a little more than a month, this radical transformation of MoCCA’s future went from a tentative germ of an idea to nearly a fait accompli. With the lease coming to an end […]
Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as […]