[O]n the funny pages of America’s newspapers … artists (and readers) wrestle with whether the comics should be an escape from the giant elephant in everyone’s living room, or a reflection of it.Reporter John Wilkens talks to some local comic strip cartoonists about the reality of the coronavirus:In the 35 years that Greg Evans has […]
Garfield is a cultural institution at this point, enjoying a level of fame for a comic strip character previously bestowed only on the likes of Charlie Brown or Snoopy. He’s been part of the world for so long, and in such a steady, easily understandable form, that he even gets under people’s skin. But despite […]
On May 5, 1895 the first color Hogan’s Alley appeared in The Sunday New York World. May 5th is now recognized as National Cartoonists Day. above from Ohio State University above via John Wells above: the EC Comics bullpen by Marie Severin above by way of Allan Holtz’s Strippers Guide above from the National Cartoonists […]
The western strip Rick O’Shay by Stan Lynde began in 1958. It first appeared on April 27, 1958 (below), taking over the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate spot occupied by Ferd Johnson’s Texas Slim Sunday strip which ended the week before; both being humorous cowboy strips.Ferd Johnson, who had been ghosting for Frank Willard’s Moon […]
From the May 1st New York Times, a profile by Abdi Latif Dahir entitled “Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye.”From the piece: Gado, 50, is one of Africa’s leading editorial cartoonists. A native Tanzanian who calls Kenya his home, he has won awards and been syndicated in newspapers and digital publications worldwide. In […]
From the publisher of the Coos Bay newspaper The World:Dear Reader, The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter our daily lives… Meantime, you may notice some changes to our regular lineup of comics, columns and features, and the resulting number of pages in each issue. Soon after we bought this newspaper on February 1, we learned […]
Over at Politico, Pulitzer winners Matt Wuerker and Darrin Bell chat about Darrin’s career, the lack of diversity in editorial cartooning and newspaper editors.https://www.politico.com/video/2020/05/01/punchlines-cartoonist-of-color-with-darrin-bell-074113
original April 30, 2020 post:St. Louis Public Radio will interview local cartoonist Steenz, who recently took over the Heart of the City comic strip, at noon local time on Friday May 1, 2020.Local comic artist Christina “Steenz” Stewart initially didn’t consider making comics during her time in art school. She knew she loved the medium, […]
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health has distributed face masks with illustrations on use and disposal.The problem is that the illustrations come from cartoon instructions by Evangeline Neo.And the government agency didn’t ask or receive permission from the cartoonist. Or even credit the cartoonist.Eva created two versions of her Mask comics, one not signed:There were 2 versions, […]
But first, thisJuxtaposition of the Day(Michael de Adder)(Ann Telnaes)Maybe this is what happens when cartoonists get locked down and have nothing to do but make richly detailed, multiple caricatures, but this is quite a pair to have drop on the same day.The best part is that they assume the reader is intelligent and well-informed, and […]
The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talked to Jack Ohman, Matt Wuerker and Rick McKee about Vice President Mike Pence’s mask-free visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.From the piece: “Not only did he put himself and others at risk — and violate his own policy and that of the hospital — he set a horrible example […]
The Billy Ireland Library and Museum reminds us:Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University will discuss her new book, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. Following her presentation, Wanzo will join cartoonists Bianca Xunise and Barbara Brandon-Croft. Xunise and Brandon-Croft’s work pushes boundaries to […]
Lucy Bourton, for It’s Nice That, interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Steed.INT When you say you’re a cartoonist, not an illustrator, what’s the difference for you? ES Just that I don’t illustrate things, not usually. I’m not illustrating someone else’s idea, I do the idea and the drawing. I do them at the same time, […]
On Geoff Grogan’s latest “Blockhead” podcast, he interviews “Dennis the Menace” cartoonist Marcus Hamilton.From the site:“Dennis the Menace” takes over “Blockhead”! The wonderful Marcus Hamilton, daily cartoonist of “Dennis the Menace”, is here to talk about Dennis, the Mitchells, Mr. & Mrs. Wilson, his career as a top-notch illustrator in the 1970s and how a […]
John Cole on the digital divide, which has been a factor in education for a good 25 or 30 years but is now in sharper focus as schools shift to distance learning.For those who came in late, the “digital divide” refers to kids who are at a disadvantage because their classmates have computers and Internet […]