President of National Cartoonists Society, New Yorker and Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian, former president of the Australian Cartoonists Association, MAD magazine and editorial cartoonist, and on and on. Medium’s recent interview with Jason Chatfield begins with an impressive list of achievements credited to this young man. Excerpt from the interview: Q4) When you […]
Smash Pages Q&A: Steenz The cartoonist who took over ‘Heart of the City’ this year discusses the comic strip process, her focus on the characters, her other projects and more.Smash Pages covers Steenz‘s career with the focus on her new gig as Heart of the City cartoonist.On getting the job:We started an audition process. I […]
John Rose introduced the interview at the Comics Kingdom blog: John Rose, cartoonist for King Features Barney Google And Snuffy Smith comic strip was recently interviewed by Buddy Roberts, the Special Projects Editor for Consolidated Publishing in Alabama. Roberts interviewed Rose for an article in the My Home Town section of The Daily Home newspaper […]
Cartoonists are interviewed and/or showcase drawing skills, recorded on video. Last Week a Today show segment discussed historic events as seen in comic strips, highlighting Lalo Alcaraz and La Cucaracha. Watch as Wisconsin State Journal editorial cartoonist Phil Hands walks viewers through his creative process as he draws his latest Mendota Marsh cartoon. Making Newspaper […]
Mark Evanier spends part of every summer heading numerous panels at the San Diego Comic Con, Mark being one of the most knowledgeable people about comics and cartooning and animation in the world. But this year that San Diego week has fallen through. Mark and Comic Con International are going to try work out something, […]
NPR interviews a Genius. The site also features a short Yes You Can! Lynda Barry video. This Is How You Do It. Jim Keefe gives a video sketchbook inking tutorial. Arting in the 21st Century. Patrick LaMontagne shows how to draw on a Wacom. San Diego Comic-Con issues a kind of non-statement on the coronavirus.“Comic-Con is working with […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell will receive The Elzie Segar Award at the 2020 Reubens Banquet in Kansas City.From the NCS announcement: On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is my great pleasure to announce that Patrick McDonnell will be awarded the Elzie Segar award at […]
Bob Andelman, aka Mr. Media, has passed away.Robert Stephen (Bob) Andelman October 9, 1960 – February 24, 2020journalist, author, talk show host From the St. Petersburg Catalyst obituary:Journalist and author Bob Andelman, a longtime presence in St. Petersburg media, died Monday after a short battle with a rare form of cancer. He was 59. A former […]
A Case for Pencils asks cartoonists about the tools of the tradeNick Downes is the latest to take the survey, and he discounts my earlier theory (elsewhere today) that pencils are a thing of the past:I eschew electronic means of creating work as much as possible, as I enjoy the process of drawing, inking and […]
JH: You started drawing “Between Friends” when you were in your thirties, and your characters were the same age. What made you decide to let them age in real-time with you? SBL: The strip evolved as my influences changed. When I began “Between Friends,” there were no children in it, for example…The strip launched in […]
To celebrate the last decade of PBF, Dark Horse is releasing a special and comprehensive Almanack collection of Nicholas’s comics. In addition to placing all of his work in one place, the book also contains scrapped panels that never made the main website.On the occasion of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition) being […]
Bette Banjack sits down with Loose Parts’ Dave Blazek and gets a recipe.Moving through the newspaper world he landed at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Being a creative person, Dave has done it all. Graphic arts, writing, plus creating and directly some 500 radio commercials plus around 100 TV commercials. He retired as Inquirer […]
Not long after Rich Sparks moved to Chicago in 1982, he started a job at Carnival Foods, a grocery store in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Working in the produce department, Sparks was tasked with updating a sign advising customers to “Ring Bell for Service,” and in short order he’d transformed it into a sort […]
Roz Chast has advice for young cartoonists:Chast said aspiring artists should not be deterred from their passion. “Listen to the people who understand what you’re trying to do, who could offer you good advice,” she said. “There are people not understanding what you’re trying to do and put you down and think you’re going in […]
The Minnesota State Fair has named Kevin Cannon as 2020 Commemorative Artist.Twin Cities Pioneer Press is reporting:Twin Cities cartoonist and illustrator Kevin Cannon has been selected to create the official 2020 Minnesota State Fair commemorative art. His original interpretation of the Great Minnesota Get-Together will be unveiled at the State Fairgrounds in June. above: a […]