Daryl Cagle recites the history of Cartoonists Day over on his blog.An excerpt: Cartoonists usually work in isolation and the opportunities to work together were great fun at first – then the glow started to fade. Some cartoonists were enthusiastic about the idea of Cartoonists Day, and pushed the idea of every comic strip artist […]
Tom Heintjes, Publisher of Hogan’s Alley, writes in to remind Daily Cartoonists that they can get a free copy of Hogan’s Alley on Free Comic Book Day (that’s May 5 A.K.A. “this Saturday”). Simply email him on that day – and that day only – at this email address hoganmag@gmail.com along with a mailing address.Don’t […]
Jeff Kilpatrick writes in to announce that the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, which he co-founded, will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary on May 4th with a large art show that will include the artwork for over 20 of their members. The organization has over 80 members with 30 who are active participants including Andrew Hart […]
According to E&p, Rubes cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has created an opening-sequence animation for an independent film entitled “Moola” that opens this Friday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California
Tom Toles, Garry Trudeau, Dave Coverly have been tapped to judge the second annual “Science Idol” cartoon contest to draw humorous attention to political interference in science. The winner of the contest receives a 3-day trip to Washington D.C. and a lunch with Tom.From the press release: All artists, amateur or professional, are welcome to […]
While visiting the Buckeye state, I was able to visit the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library in Columbus Ohio. Thanks to Craig Boldman who helped set things up, Jenny Robb, the library’s Associate Curator and Professor (what a cool job!) gave me a tour of the library and showed me their extensive collection. During […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the nominees for the various awards that will be given out during the Reuben weekend May 27th in Orlando this year. Here is the breakdown on who’s up for what: Cartoonist of the Year Bill Amend Dave Coverly Dan Piraro Feature Animation Peter De Seve, Character Design (Fox) “Ice […]
Running Press Books has announced that they have joined with MAD magazine to reprint every cartoon of MAD magazine cartoonist Don Martin over his 30 year with the magazine. The book is entitled “The Completely MAD Don Martin” and will be a two volume set at over 1,000 pages and seventeen pounds. The forward is […]
Mike Lynch points out that May 5th is traditionally been Cartoonists Day but that it really hasn’t been publicized for the last several years. He also points us to a new web site set up dedicated to the day. I’m not sure who’s behind the web site but the press release says to contact Ken […]
Michael Fry Last May, I told you that Michael Fry (the writer behind Over the Hedge), had started a company called RingTales along with Jim Cox (the executive co-producer for the Over the Hedge movie). Their objective was to create small animated shorts from existing print cartoons that can be distributed via mobile phones, blogs/web […]
In one of the weirder stories I’ve been tracking these last couple of months is the one about the Garfield statue that was beheaded back in December when the statue was “hugged.” The head was found a couple of days later at the side of the road several miles away. Police were tipped off as […]
James Kemsley from down under writes in to tell me that the latest issue of Inkspot has been posted. Inkspot is the official journal of the Australian Cartoonists Association. This latest issue has several pages on the passing of Paul Rigby who died in November of last year and a follow-up to the 2006 Stanley […]
The LA Times recently looked at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. The school currently has 18 students who have pay $14,000 a year for the two-year course. Interestingly the school was financed through a state grant and other cartoonists – including Jean Schulz who was quoted as saying, conventional colleges […]
Via Mike Lynch’s site comes news that Brendan Burford (an editor at King Features and hubby of Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo) is releasing his third volume of Syncopated comics. Syncopated Comics is an independently published collection of comics. Brendan will be on hand at the New York Comic-Con on February 23rd through 25th if […]
Mike Lynch has posted photos of the last nights NYC NCS get together. Photos include Brendan Burford, Caroline Dworin, Rina Piccolo, Marc Bilgrey, Tony Murphy, Mort Gerberg, Doug Bratton, Anne Gibbons, Isabella Bannerman, Garry Trudeau, Dan Piraro and of course Mike Lynch. Looks like they had a great time.