The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run. The New York Comic Con also issues […]
‘I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism’ Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes was the featured speaker at the annual Press Freedom Lecture in The Hague on April 14. The Press Freedom Lecture is an initiative of the Press Freedom Day Committee. (In a bit of irony […]
Sergio Aragonés, Chad Nichols, Bob Mankoff, Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Rozalia Finkelstein, Duane M. Abel, Mark Knight, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, Ian Jones, and Liana Finck. Sergio Aragonés The NCS is proud to Present: Show and Tell with Sergio Aragonés Join us for a captivating two-hour LIVE show from the art studio of master […]
Billy Ireland & Jenny Robb, Marshall Ramsey, Ernie Bushmiller, Ward Sutton & Stan Kelly, Paul Gilligan, and Mort Walker, Bill Hoest, & Bil Keane. Chillicothe, Columbus, and the World — A boy who grew up in Chillicothe and then worked for the Columbus Dispatch to became a world-famous cartoonist was part of the focus of […]
Cartoonist Gary Varvel was the keynote speaker at a local Republican function. From The Greenfield Daily Reporter: The award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist who spent 24 years at the Indianapolis Star was the keynote speaker at the Hancock County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at Adaggios Banquet Hall late last Friday. He was joined by GOP […]
While we’ve been distracted by royalty of the British and cartooning kinds the world continued to spin. Here we do some catching up. But before we move on from cartoon royalty… 10 Funniest The Far Side Comics, According To Reddit One of the inspirations for Gary Larson’s popular recurring characters was just honored by his […]
As a cartoonist, I’m always asked about my greatest influences. I have quite a few, but my earliest — like many, many cartoonists — was Charles Schulz (Peanuts). Therefore, you can imagine how honored I am to be speaking at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA on Saturday, June 25! It’s a […]
© the Estate of Edward Gorey Deadline is reporting that Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest is being pitched as a live-action feature. Being in the middle of the Gorey biography Born to Be Posthumous the news caught our eye. © Alison Bechdel As a kid, cartoonist Alison Bechdel was obsessed with the bodybuilding ads […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world, will be a guest speaker at their 2020 Reubens weekend: A previous Reuben-winner, Jim will be speaking at the NCS conference on Friday, 5th June at the Marriott Kansas City Downtown. His exclusive talk for the […]
Knight’s talk was both autobiographical and a chance to comment on society through his art. Knight, who grew up in Boston, remarked that he had only one black teacher in school – and that was a substitute who, as a comic artist, at least modeled a career that appealed to Knight. It wasn’t until Knight […]
Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg’s Success in Comics seminar is heading to the east coast. The last two events were in Las Vegas. The duo is taking the show to Annapolis, MD February 16-17th. The line up looks top notch too. Chad Carpenter – Third time speaker, creator of Tundra the most widely self-syndicated strips […]
Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as […]
Neil Gaiman, author of short stories, comic books, graphic novels, and movies (with a long list of awards to go with those genres), was the commencement speaker at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). In my book, this speech ranks up there with Steve Jobs’ now famous 2005 Stanford University speech. Worth the 20 […]
Back in December, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly recently spoke at a TED conference dedicated to women. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” The video wasn’t available back then, but is now. Here it is:
From Stephan’s blog: For the first time since the strip began back in 2002, I?m now emerging from my hermit shell and booking a fair number of speaking engagements. I talk about the strip, tell the strange tale of how I went from being a lawyer to a syndicated cartoonist, show a number of readers? […]