Expect more Manga in the coming years. The UK’s Guardian is reporting that one of the strategies for economic correction in Japan is to export more Manga. Part of the 15 trillion Yen stimulus measure unveiled last week contains language to boost Manga comic exports from 2% to 18 over the next decade resulting in […]
The BBC has a great story about the impact of the now famous Danish Mohammed cartoons. Last week’s NATO summit hit a snag because Turkey threatened to veto the appointment of Denmark’s Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen because the PM has not apologized for the cartoons. As the BBC reports, the question of importance regarding […]
NRC Handelsblad reports that famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is out of hiding (but still under police protection) and has done 26 illustrations for a new book collection of columns written by a fellow Danish columnist Lars Hedegaard. Kurt says that there was “no intention to depict the so-called prophet,” but that people could always […]
Maurice Sinet, a French cartoonist/satirist, has been acquitted of anti-Semitism. He was charged with the crime after a July article he authored poked fun of Jean Sarkozy, son of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who allegedly converted to Judaism to marry a Jewish heiress. Maurice was fired from the magazine after he refused to apologize after […]
Australian cartoonist Michael Atchison has passed away at age 75 from a cancer he battled since 1994. He spent 40 years with the Advertiser as their cartoonist, he also taught art at Pembroke College. Earlier in his career he sold cartoons to magazines, illustrated books and produced a syndicated comic strip that ran in the […]
» Boom Studios is bringing back The Muppets in comic form. Roger Langridge is the artist. Look for its debut in March.» Back in August I wrote about French cartoonist Maurice Sinet who wrote a column that ignited an uproar calling the column anti-Semitic. He’s now on trial.» Jeff Smith’s Bone will come to an […]
» Politico has an article about the difficulty cartoonist will have skewering President Obama. Let’s see… no, this isn’t a re-print of an earlier article that we’ve talked about before (see here and here). Can we be officially done on this topic yet? Or better still, can editorial cartoonists, when asked this question, say emphatically, […]
» Magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson has relaunched his site with new features.» Jason Killingsworth writes in Paste Magazine the five reasons he still loves Calvin and Hobbes.» Lynn Johnston creates five cartoon thank you cards for med students to give to their patience whom they practice on.» Tom Richmond writes how to work for MAD […]
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help […]
Godfrey Amon Mwampembwa (goes by the name Gado), a Kenyan-based cartoonist heading to the U.N.’s Cartooning for Peace exhibit in Wellington, New Zealand, was not able to attend the exhibit, that included his own work, after Kenyan workers declared an impromptu national holiday after Barack Obama was named the winner of the U.S. presidential election. […]
W.K. Haselden of the Daily Mirror printed 17 Jan 1906British Cartoon archive, based at the University of Kent, has created one of the largest online archives of cartoon art with over 120,000 British political and social cartoons from more than 250 cartoonists going back to the 18th century. The collection also includes present day cartoonist […]
Australian cartoonist Bill Leak is set to be discharged from the hospital after a four day coma and emergency brain surgery after falling head first off a balcony on October 18. According to The Australian, Bill has no memory of the incident. “When I woke out of the coma they explained to me what happened, […]
Award winning Australian cartoonist Bill Leak, who had to have two brain surgeries after a fall, has reportedly awaken from his induced coma and even shared a joke with family members according to The Australian. His son tells the paper that his father “has a long way to go” but his ability to move limbs […]
Australian cartoonist Bill Leak suffered a serious head injury after falling 3-4 meters off a balcony in the Mount White area of Australia’s central coast. He was reportedly feeding parrots with friends at the time of the fall. He was unconscious immediately after the fall and was flown by helicopter and had emergency brain surgery […]
I don’t get many reports of comic page changes outside of the United States, but thanks to Andreas Eriksson of Sweden, we learn that the Norra Västerbotten recently switched to a tabloid format earlier this month and brought in a focus group to determine which comic features should be dropped or picked up. Before the […]