City Paper, a weekly in Philadelphia, is charging cartoonists to donate their cartoons AND pay $5 to submit cartoons for the annual Comics Issue. The collective $5 is then divied out to those cartoonists that are published.According to Jim Romenesko, the plan didn’t go over so well.I saw the one comment from a cartoonist who […]
Charges against comic journalist Susie Cagle have been dropped according to Media Bistro. Susie was arrested on Nov 3 while she was covering the Occupy Oakland protest despite clearly showing her credentials. She was booked and charged with “being present at raid” – a misdemeanor.The charges were dropped after Co-Chairs of the Freedom of Information […]
About 50 cartoonists are featured in a new cookbook entitled, “Webcomics: What’s Cooking“. The book has 47 recipes with accompanying original cartoon art. They’ve posted five sample pages online.Below is the sample from Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson.
Eisner winner Shannon Wheeler recently took a trip to Portugal for a comic festival. He took a sketch book to record his trip that would start in New York City. His trip is being chronicled over on The Comics Journal. Day two is about his trip to the New Yorker office.
Rich Diesslin has kicked off his annual The Cartoon Days of Christmas for the ninth time. Everyday the site posts holiday related cartoons today through January 5th. Participating cartoonists include: Larry Miller, Ron Morgan, Sean Boley, Dale Hunt and Rich himself.
From Stephanie Piro:I’ve been meaning to put my “classic” tale of the Turkey Prince online for Thanksgiving for years. I wrote it in my 20’s and my style has really evolved since then though I still consider this one of my best and favorite works. Here it is finally… I re-wrote the captions because, believe […]
Cartoon Movement is publishing another Occupy Wall Street piece of comics journalism. Today’s new offerings come from Sarah Glidden who visited the Occupy Miami protest:“When we would start talking about OWS, the attitude seemed to be that it’s great that Americans are taking some sort of action against the system we’ve created,” she says. “And […]
Susie Cagle, the only embedded comic journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement, was arrested early this morning in Oakland after police fired teargas and flash bang grenades to clear a downtown street after protestors lit a large bonfire. According to CBS News at least 30 people were arrested and Susie reports through Twitter that […]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been spreading to cities across the U.S. Occupiers congregated in Oakland CA on Oct. 10 and comic journalist Susie Cagle decided to cover the protest and create a five-part series to run locally and nationally documenting the Oakland participants. Her work is being funded through Spot Us – a […]
College students with an interest and passion for cartooning please take note. The Jay Kennedy Scholarship application deadline is December 15. The annual Jay Kennedy Scholarship is awarded to a Junior or Senior enrolled in a 4-year college in North America who demonstrates talent and ambition in cartooning. The student doesn’t need to be an […]
Cheeming Boey is an immigrant from Malaysia now based in Southern California. He started doodling on styrofoam coffee cups with a Sharpie and has gained enough recognition for the art that he can now sell cups for over $1,000.Here’s his Flickr account with all of his cups.Hat tip to Eat Sleep Work
An interesting read by Center for Cartoon Studies co-founder James Sturm and his experience submitting to The New Yorker for the first time.If making graphic novels felt like a staid long-term relationship, then doing gag comics is like playing the field. One day I could draw a fortuneteller; the next, an astronaut. I went from […]
Great news from Joe Wos, founder and Executive Director of Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum. The little museum has announced that it will triple its size to allow for additional exhibits, a permanent collection display, reading rooms and expanded office space and storage.The ToonSeum was founded in 2007 and moved to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to its […]
Jake Parker has posted a map of the “known world” for those who call themselves visual storytellers. Click through to his blog for a larger view of the map and his narrative of options for storytellers.The visual storyteller; part artist, part writer. Some favor the visual, others favor the word, but all of them convey […]
This year’s 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been posted. Winners will be announced August 20, 2011 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.BEST LETTERERScott Brown, BOX 13, http://www.comixology.com and Red 5 Comics Darwyn Cooke, RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE OUTFIT, IDW Dustin Harbin, CASANOVA, Icon Comics Troy Peteri, WITCHBLADE, Top Cow Robbie Robbins, LOCKE & KEY: KEYS […]