This week MAD magazine publishes its 500th edition after 57 years. MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond tells us what to expect this week: The editors and staff wanted to have issue 500 contain as many of the artists and writers who helped MAD get to issue 500 as possible, so MAD took a sort of […]
Comic Strips» Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau has a piece in Monday’s New Yorker (now available online). It’s an “unedited transcript of the complete G-20 Summit coverage of Roland Hedley, senior Twitter correspondent for Fox News, who appears regularly in ‘Doonesbury’.”» Chuck Barney interviews Dilbert creator Scott Adams on what keeps Scott going after 20 years. […]
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the National Caricaturist Network) has announced details to their 2009 convention to be held in Sandusky OH this November.The confirmed speakers include Sam Viviano, Longtime MAD artist and current art director, Mark Fredrickson, Frequent MAD cover artist, Hermann Mejia MAD caricaturist and Tom Richmond a […]
Mark Anderson, perhaps one of the more entrepreneurial cartoonist in the market, has teamed up with Sliderock.com – an online presentation website. The partnership embeds Mark’s cartoons into their stockphoto section and each time a user opts to use on of his cartoons, they can purchase the usage rights from within the software through an […]
Last week came news of several papers in the alt-newspaper market that were temporarily suspending buying syndicated cartoons. Mike Lynch reports that several magazines have stopped buying cartoons, reduced their payout or started buying Cartoonbank cartoons. Specifically he mentions First for Women, Good Housekeeping, Time Magazine and Woman’s World as having made major changes to […]
» 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 […]
News-a-rama notes that this week’s New Yorker is their annual Cartoon Issue and reports that it includes work, articles or interviews with Stever Brodner, Mike Luckovich (online), Bruce McCall, Joost Swarte, Robert Crumb and an online only interview with Scott Adams.
Tom Richmond, a MAD magazine cartoonist, has announced on his blog that MAD magazine will issue a new collection of movie parodies entitled “MAD About the Movies: Directorâ??s Cut”. This is their second collection – the first was released in 1998. This one, Tom says, is 400 pages, contains 60 movie parodies and only costs […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has launched a new web site to promote his gag panel cartoons. The web site offers visitors the opportunity to search and purchase a reprint license for his freelance cartoons.
» Scott Hiburn, creator of The Argyle Sweater gets a call from Dear Abby.» Brad Veley, gag cartoonist, is profiled by WLUC.» Clarion Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will be on MPB Radio’s Mississippi Edition tomorrow morning at around 8:30 a.m.» French cartoonist Maurice Sinet (AKA “Siné”) wrote a scathing (and some call anti-Semitic) article […]
Harry Bliss, a frequent New Yorker cartoonist, is releasing a collection of his one-panel cartoons in a book entitled “Death by Laughter.” The book will feature more than a 100 of his cartoons, which according to the Burlington Free Press contains a good number of “not-always-funny themes” such as death.In the Burlington interview he says, […]
The New Yorker just can’t seem to catch a break lately when it comes to news about their famed cartoons. Another cartoon has been spotted that is very similar to a Jeff Darcy cartoon (editorial cartoonist for the Plain Dealer) that was published two years ago. The New Yorker carton was done by Paul Noth […]
The New Yorker is changing a Harry Bliss cartoon’s attribute on its website after a professor in Wisconsin contacted the magazine and then New York newspapers alerting them that the Bliss cartoon looked like a 1962 “Tales to Astonish” comic book cover by Jack Kirby. A spokesman for the New Yorker says that Harry’s attempt […]
Mort Gerberg was honored with the NCS division award for Gag Cartoons. He was also a presenter today.
Daryll Collins was honored with the NCS division award for best Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration.