Mo is content to put up her feet and gobble popcorn (go read the whole thing here), but her creator and other political cartoonists need to focus because things are beginning to speed up. Of course, some cartoonists habitually work hard and file often, and Clay Jones has posted a dozen-and-a-half sketches of things that recently […]
Forget Classics Illustrated, let’s read Classics Cartooned.I’m Katie, and I’ve been drawing single-panel cartoons for the past eight years. I love silly puns, drawing, and reading, and these cartoons are a celebration of great books, authors, and literary tropes. I draw these with felt pens on paper, and then, because I am a bit technologically […]
Ernie Poignant was born a few months after the end of World War 1, which made him of age to serve in World War 2. Today, a few months shy of his 101st birthday, Ernie was a guest of honor at Remembrance Day ceremonies.A legendary cartoonist and Second World War veteran came back to his […]
So what’s a freelancer to do when a gig dries up?Tom Richmond says you suck it up and look for new clients, like always. How do YOU keep yourself occupied for 7 hours while running a marathon?Liza Donnelly draws what she sees. What was the first comic strip robot?Steve Carper, who literally wrote the book on robots, […]
WTWO/WAWV carries the story of local cartoonist minister Paul Gray.At almost 90 years old, Paul Gray of Carlisle has been cartooning his entire life—he even still publishes a weekly cartoon for area newspapers. “In the early 1950s, I worked for the Detroit Daily News a little bit,” he said. He also worked for a number […]
So the 2019 World Series has its scandals. Baseball fans jeered the President and baseball fans flashed the Houston Astros pitcher. That’s got to top the World Series of 100 years ago when the Chicago White Sox threw the series to the Cincinnati Reds.The 1919 Black Sox Scandal didn’t become public knowledge until 1920, disappointing […]
Cartoonist and Army officer Vernon Grant had a unique ability to capture the soldier’s perspective during the Vietnam War. The Stars and Stripes contributor was the latest in a long line of social commentators to grace its pages during times of war, the most notable being Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin during World War II. […]
So many releases we had to make two posts.Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea. The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning […]
If you are headed to the AAEC Convention/CXC Festival be sure to pick up this limited edition, soon-to-be-collectors’-item book available only there this weekend.As the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists tweeted:Politico’s [Matt Wuerker] & a slew of guest cartoonists have put together a book that ties into “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists & the First Amendment,” […]
A small nook — only three books — but you wouldn’t like a large nook and I’m not sure there’s any such a thing anyway. But first, the weather, and Speed Bump captures the moment, because we seem to have a boatload of monarchs here all of a sudden, and while most of them don’t seem […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Big Orange Football Coloring Book Charles M. Schulz’s Linus A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber Senior Moments: Ageing […]
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!The always interesting and educational Yesterday’s Papers site, whether it’s a John Adcock or a Richard Marschall post, is a must read every morning. But this morning it gave me a real thrill.To quote Richard:Searching for illustrations for the imminent revival of Nemo Magazine, I have been ransacking my bookshelves.That’s right! “Imminent!” I’m […]
Earlier today Mike Peterson mentioned some events happening in non-Upstate New York. Well, if you are headed to Upstate New York sometime in the next two months you may want stop by the Ellenville Public Library and Museum for R. Robert Pollak‘s “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art” exhibit.It features Pollak’s collection of […]
Joe Shuster was born on this day in 1914, and while he probably didn’t sit up in the Toronto hospital to read the newspaper that day, his father may have had a chance to do so in those pacing and chain-smoking days..Couldn’t find any Toronto papers on-line, and there weren’t a whole lot of comic […]
I have a number of links where I find cartoons and I tend to link back to those places, my intention being to help my readers find cartoonists to follow and to build traffic for those cartoonists.But if linking you back to your syndicate or your Facebook or Twitter page isn’t helpful — particularly if […]