Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Star of the Telegram: The Cartoons of Harold Maples Johnny Hazard The Newspaper Dailies Volume Seven: 1954-1956 Thelwell’s Pony Panorama MacDoodle St. The Art […]
Comics Changes in the Tampa Bay Times and the Aberdeen American News From the Tampa Bay Times:Want even more evidence that people care about comics? Nearly 10,000 readers completed our survey to help find a replacement for Non Sequitur. That’s more than the number of people who cast ballots for the runner-up in the Tampa […]
The 2018 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Award nominees for the 73rd Annual NCS Reuben Awards! The winners will be announced on May 18th, 2019 in Huntington Beach, CA. The National Cartoonists Society
Interview: Bill Griffith, Nobody’s Fool, and a Grand Career in ComicsIn 1976, Zippy began to appear in about 50 alternative weekly newspapers–syndicated only by me. From ’76 to ’85, Zippy was a weekly strip that I syndicated alone. In 1985, the San Francisco Examiner, a daily Hearst paper, was given over to a new generation. […]
Wwwwhhhirrrrrr…tic….tic…..tic……tac Merrie Melodies, Silly Symphonies, and Looney TunesMeet The Queen’s Cartoonists, a New York jazz band bringing back cartoon music.As I watched The Queen’s Cartoonists slip and slide through decades of cartoon music in a matter of minutes, with the animations projected on a large screen behind them, I followed a captivated crowd of young and […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the inductees to their class of 2019 Hall of Fame and, as has been customary for the past 60 years, cartoonists are among the chosen. Mary Petty (1899–1976) was a self-taught, prolific illustrator of books and magazines whose works appeared regularly on the covers of The New Yorker. In total, […]
A few days later I got calls from the highway department AND The Famous Artists Schools both saying that I was hired. What a dilemma. H-m-m-m, sweat all day in the broiling sun in a road gang … OR … sit at a drawing board all day and draw cartoons? Randy Enos‘ latest Caledonian […]
“There is something magical about three you know – a trio is tight and nicely economical.” Ian WillliamsHere’s trio of interviews with cartoonists. …it’s hard when one’s job is to get people laughing. An interview with Will McPhail: cartoonist for The New Yorker The wonderful thing about black and white cartoons was that the […]
Why Trump is Cartoonist’s Target-in-Chief“You pick on Trump way more than you picked on Obama.” I started wondering if these people were on to something. Trump officially marks the middle of his term Sunday, so I decided to go back and count the cartoons I’ve done on him over the past two years and compare […]
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive :This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick. “…the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New […]
First look at the animated Addams Family movie! Courtesy MGM and Behind The Thrills comes a peek at the upcoming (next year) animated movie feature of Charles Addams classic creation. Warning: link contains an earworm! Jules Feiffer Has Never Been HappierFeiffer expresses great enthusiasm for his latest project, which is something he never imagined would actually […]
From cartoonist Mike Lynch:The new issue of Reader’s Digest is on the stands. And there are three cartoons in it. Not bad. One was originally published by The New Yorker magazine some years back. The cartoon was then bought by RD this year from the New Yorker’s Cartoonbank. There is a cartoon from Cartoonstock, an […]
Cartoonist William Hamilton’s widow recalls a peculiar work habit of the cartoonist. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-sound-of-wit/Later this month the National Cartoonists Society will award The Reuben to The Cartoonist of the Year. What better time to remember Rube Goldberg. Yesterday The Smithsonian did just that.During his 72-year career, cartoonist Rube Goldberg produced more than 50,000 drawings and thousands of comic strips. In 1922, […]
Once upon a time, in the 20th century, cartoonists submitted gag cartoons to the top magazines – The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy. Gags rejected by those editors were recycled to the next tier – SatEvePost, Collier’s, True. And so on down the line to trade journals and then to those joke and cartoon magazines. By […]
I know I’ve mentioned the documentary “Very Semi-Serious” here before. It will air next Monday on HBO. I was kindly offered a sneak peak last night (which was also the night of the screening in New York City with the New Yorker cast of cartoonists – wouldn’t that have been fun to attend).A few thoughts […]