Louis M. Glackens: Pure Imagination April 14, 2024 through March 30, 2025 Louis Glackens was a trailblazing figure who became one of the first illustrators of animated cartoons from 1915-1920, creating characters for production houses such as Baré, Pathe and Sullivan Studios. His fantastical depictions of mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts and pie-faced grown-ups carved a path […]
Rob Rogers, Harry Harrison, Wiley Miller, Jeff Kinney, Michael Cavna, and Bob Englehart – cartoonists all. Enjoy a sampling of Bob Englehart’s cartoons created to provoke, anger, entertain, challenge and illustrate individuals, issues, events and change associated with politics and political elections…with a picture and in a few words. Okay, we missed the reception but […]
Way too late on this but still got a couple weekends of November left. 2023 marks my fourth decade as a published cartoonist and 25 years of my comic strip It Takes a Village Idiot. To celebrate the occasion I will be presenting a retrospective of my work and offering my books, framed and unframed […]
Bob Staake, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik, Max Fleischer, Peanuts, and The Nib.********** Staake has publicly rejected the idea that he has a “style” — his works are too different, he says, his way too experimental. But every piece in the show, he admits, looks like a Bob Staake. “There’s something hiding in the background,” he […]
In a career that’s spanned more than 40 years and included some 80 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine illustrations and many New Yorker covers, author and illustrator Bob Staake has never had a solo show of his work. Until now. “The Endless Imagination of Bob Staake” will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod […]
The Minnesota History Center will host a year-long exhibit of Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz. The event is covered by local and national news. KSTP-TV: A museum exhibit set to open next month aims to teach visitors something new about Minnesota’s most famous cartoonist. The Minnesota History Center is celebrating St. Paul native Charles Schulz, […]
Doonesbury for October 2, 2022 © G. B. Trudeau Update on the Charles M. Schulz/USPS First Day Issue Event. Hundreds of “Peanuts” fans and stamp collectors turned out Friday at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa for the first day of issue for 10 new stamps featuring “Peanuts” characters. Fans of all ages crowded […]
Cartoonists of all sorts and stripes – comic strip cartoonists, editorial cartoonists, comic book (mainstream, alternative, small press) cartoonists – of all ages, for all ages. Only a week away. (a week away, a week away) Lee Marrs, Keith Knight, Bill Plympton, Ann Telnaes, Jim Mahfood, Steenz, Dan Parent, Trina Robbins, Kevin Necessary, […]
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – A special exhibit examining the work of artist and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk will be on public display at The National WWII Museum starting Sept. 2. In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights will showcase more than 50 of Szyk’s original works, which focus on humanitarian issues that the world faced in […]
September Mourn above: “Morning Music” by Sempé © Condé NastThe New Yorker’s new issue (dated September 5, 2022) features a J. J. Sempé cover (the 114th) in tribute to the artist who passed away earlier this month. The cover story feature:The French artist’s widow describes Sempé’s decades-long relationship with the magazine and his deep appreciation […]
The San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) started in earnest Thursday (July 21) and The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) counts among the exhibitors and goers. The NCS notes there will be SDCC exclusives.The legendary Sergio Aragones may not be at SDCC this year, but Groo The Wanderer is — in pin form! Stop by booth 1307 to […]
Later this year will be the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s birthday. AP photo“Peanuts” was America’s favorite comic strip. At its peak, there were 100 million readers each day. Charles Schulz drew it for almost 50 years, through the relatively complacent but anxious Cold War 1950s, the tumultuous 1960s, the Vietnam War, the civil […]
“See You in the Funny Papers”: a phrase that began to grace the American lexicon around the 1920s and served as a reminder that life can often be just as amusing and whimsical as the Sunday comics. That’s what Ruthmere’s summer exhibit is all about… Funny Papers will include a traveling exhibit from the Charles M. […]
Golf. It’s not just the game of kings but the preferred sport among American politicians. And it isn’t anything new. Clifford Berryman’s early 20th-century editorial cartoons are proof of that. ‘Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman,’ running through Sunday, July 3, at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol and Robin Miller, for […]
As a cartoonist, I’m always asked about my greatest influences. I have quite a few, but my earliest — like many, many cartoonists — was Charles Schulz (Peanuts). Therefore, you can imagine how honored I am to be speaking at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA on Saturday, June 25! It’s a […]