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Vermont Public Radio interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren about his approach to cartooning.Download MP3 or listen through browser.

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly had not one but two articles profiling her this weekend. The Daily Camera writes about her new book “When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman” and the Poughkeepsie Journal delves into her marriage with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin

The Dakota County Tribune Business Weekly has great profile of MAD Magagzine cartoonist Tom Richmond and how he became a MAD Magazine regular, his caricature business and his obsession with Batman. Richmond broke in after “relentlessly” sending his work to the magazine’s art department and meeting twice with the art director in the summer of […]

The Daily Freeman profiles the career of New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly

Sergio Aragonés is interviewed by The National Post regarding his book, MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works. Q So when you were looking through your older work, were there any that surprised you? A Very much. I?ve got tens of thousands, and sometimes when I look at them I?ve completely […]

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly gave a talk at a TED conference dedicated to women in Washington D.C. yesterday. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” Her involvement with TEDWomen includes curating an exhibit of international cartoons entitled, “The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Women.”I’ll post video […]

New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum has passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 68. The New York Times’ obituary notes that for most of his career, Leo was a TWA pilot but he will be remembered for his cartoons – some 819 of them. The magazine rejected his early submissions but bought some […]

Roz Chast began selling cartoons to the New Yorker in 1978. She’s been a fixture in the publication ever since. Her presentation was a gallery of some of her best work over her amazing career. Roz Chast: It would be great to draw one cartoon a week & get published, but the reality each cartoonist […]

The LA Times reports that Spy vs. Spy and other MAD Magazine classic cartoons are now on the Cartoon Network as a 15 minute comedy show. Noelene Clark has posted an interview with the show’s producers Mark Marek and Kevin Shinick. NC: How did the idea for a Mad magazine-inspired cartoon end up on Cartoon […]

Cartooning “tweets” has been a rage of late. I’ve reported that Paul Sabourin started pairing New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West’s tweets and yesterday I posted news that Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was drawing original sketches of other people’s tweets. And with that post, I learned that BECK has been doing this for a […]

Paul Sabourin, co-comedian in the musical comedy duo Paul and Storm, has started substituting New Yorker cartoon captions with recent Kanye West Twitter tweets – often with very funny results. urlesque.com interviewed Paul in the motives and inspiration between the mashups. The pretentious explanation: Kanye’s tweets are more or less raw id (unfiltered, portraying base […]

MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has posted a rejection letter he received from MAD Magazine back in the early 1990s. There’s something to be learned in how to reject somebody from that letter.

A funny (somewhat predictable video) starring New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff on what it’s like to be him.

Mike Lynch attended and has posted photos of this year’s Bunny Bash hosted by Bunny Hoest co-creator of Howard Huge. The event is an annual gathering of cartoonists in the New York area.

The National Cartoonists Society has their annual Reuben Awards weekend. Winners of the division awards are in bold.FEATURE ANIMATION Ronnie del Carmen – Storyboard Artist – “Up” Tomm Moore – Director – “The Secret of Kells” Barry Reynolds – Character Designer – “The Secret of Kells” NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Bob Rich Tom Richmond Robert Sanchuk GAG […]