USA Today has an interesting story on the rise of comic art classes in colleges and universities around the country. The article mentions a few specific schools and the increase in students: the Center for Cartoon Studies applications for enrollment are up 50%, the School of Visual Arts in New York has doubled the number […]
Professor Garfield Foundation, an educational organization founded by Garfield creator Jim Davis, has recently acquired SparkTop.org, according to E&P.“One of the unexpected joys of being in this line of work has been hearing from the parents of children who learned to read thanks to the ‘Garfield’ comic strip,” Davis said in a statement. “After nearly […]
‘Tis the season for Christmas cartoon collections. There are three main collections on the web that I’m seeing. First off is Hogan’s Alley “A Cavalcade of Cartoonists’ Christmas Cards.” It’s taken from a selection of Christmas Card cartoons that cartoonists have sent to friends and colleagues. The above image is from a Hal Foster card.Secondly […]
Tom Richmond will be at a “mini-con” sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of the National Caricaturist Network on March 2-5, 2008. He’ll be the main speaker and will also be leading an inking workshop. The inking workshop, however, is a little different. While inking is mostly about cartooning and not about caricature, I thought […]
Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming book Sepia Tome: Telling Dad’s World War II Story. Tyler’s comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen’s Comix twenty years ago. Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005. Late Bloomer […]
Clay Jones, editorial cartoonist for the Free Lance-Star, is putting together what he is calling the “Great Halloween Theme Editorial Cartoon Research Project.” For the last couple of weeks he’s been rounding up all the editorial cartoons over on the AAEC web site that are Halloweened themed. His list is now up to 63 cartoons. […]
There’s an interesting story reprinted in the Daily Herald about how American entertainment companies will change the design of their cartoon/comic characters in foreign markets for greater marketing appeal. The process is called “transcreation.” Some of the examples they cited were Peter Parker who, in the Indian market, gained his spider-man powers through a “mysterious […]
John Read writes in to ask who is plannig on going to the Ohio State Festival of Cartoon Art on Thursday?
Over on Mike Rhode’s ComicsDC blog, he’s passing on information that this year’s Festival of Carton Art has added Paul Pope, Arnold Roth, and David Saylor to the line-up of speakers to replace Jules Feiffer, Guy Delisle and Mark Siegel who have cancelled their appearance. Paul has worked in alternative comics, manga, comic books and […]
E&P notes that The International Comic Arts will be at the Library of Congress this year (Oct. 18-20). Scheduled speakers include Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher and Robert Russell, founder of the Cartoonists Rights Network International.
A hearty congratulations are in order for Pat Byrnes, who does cartoons for the New Yorker and other newspapers, magazines. He and his wife are expecting their second child in March. His wife is Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
Despite having a $100,000 bounty on his head (an additional $50k if he’s beheaded), Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who is now in hiding after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, is in reported good spirits. Mr Vilks, who lives in an isolated area of Sweden, has been […]
The NCS Great Lakes Chapter threw Roy Doty a surprise birthday party this last weekend. Craig Boldman has posted photos. I met Roy this last spring while visiting Ohio and enjoyed his company very much. At 85 years, you’d think he would be slowing down, but that night I met him he reported that he […]
This year’s Cartoons and Cocktails will be hosted by Walt Handelsman, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner. The annual event is held at the National Press Clubs and features a silent and live auction whose proceeds then go to scholarships for needy high school students pursuing journalism, a student paper and the Cartoonists Rights Network.
Dave Astor writes that a new quarterly cartooning publication will be debuting in November entitled, “Stay Tooned!” The magazine is being created by John Read who intends to “combine the best parts of ‘Cartoonist PROfiles’ — telling the stories of professional cartoonists, and ‘The Aspiring Cartoonist’ — information and instruction for cartoonists.”The first edition will […]