Filed under: Speaking Engagements

From Lynn Johnston’s web site comes news that she and several other cartoonist will be attending a book signing at the Borders bookstore in Chicago the weekend of the Reuben awards.  The other artists include: Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues), Darrin Bell (Candorville and Rudy Park), Jef Mallett (Frazz), Paul Gilligan (Pooch Cafe), Greg Evans (Luann), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) and Mark Pett (Lucky Cow).

“Jump Start” creator Robb Armstrong will be the guest motivational speaker to Winslow Township High School tomorrow.  Winslow Township has the dubious honor of having the second highest number of students who are incarcerated or adjudicated in New Jersey.

This year’s festival will focus on the work of Milton Caniff.From the OSU’s web site:Milton Caniff, known as the “Rembrandt of the Comic Strip” for his work on Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, and Steve Canyon, is one of the most honored cartoonists in history, with awards ranging from two Cartoonist of the Year “Reuben” awards from his peers in the National Cartoonists Society, to the Exceptional Service Award of the United States Air Force.  A May 19, 1947 Newsweek cover story about Caniff estimated that the daily readership of Steve Canyon was thirty million people worldwide.Caniff is especially noted for his accurate background research and excellent writing; for his innovative use of graphic techniques in his comic strips; for his unusual public service, especially to the United States Air Force; and for his professional leadership in founding the National Cartoonists Society and the Newspaper Features Council (later named the Newspaper Features Council).Terry and the Pirates provided the vehicle for Caniff’s maturation both as an artist and as a storyteller.

Book Festival puts artists in touch:Nearly every day for at least the past decade, cartoonist Doug Marlette has taken a late morning telephone call from an old friend on the South Carolina coast.It’s a way for the Pulitzer Prize-winner and his pal, best-selling novelist Pat Conroy, to continue their ongoing conversations about life in today’s culture, Marlette said.  “It’s kind of like having a witness to things that we both apprehend.”

Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott will be at Borders bookstore in West Village (near Dallas TX) to sign boosk between 7-8pm tomorrow night, according to Jim’s blog.They will also be appearing on a local morning TV show, talking with Dallas Morning News reporter Mike Peters.

Luann creator Greg Evans will be at the Barnes & Noble in Escondido CA this Sunday at 12:30 presumably to sign books.

Sacramento Bee’s Rex Babin will be a panelist on a discussion of the now infamous Muhammad cartoon. Other panelists include journalists, lawyers and members of clergy. The event happens on April 24 on the campus of Reynolds School of Journalism. The panel of journalists, lawyers and clergy will discuss the ethics of publishing potentially offensive […]

Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis will be speaking on his profession at the Niagara Universities Castellani Art Museum on Sunday May 7th.

This year’s annual Border Book Festival (Border – as in US, Mexico; not the book store) will feature Lalo Alcaraz, the creator of “La Cucharacha” on this coming Saturday in El Paso Texas. Lalo will talk about his work and conduct a workshop with other area cartoonists.Border Book Festival is a free event to celebrate […]

Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian, spoke Wednesday to The Dalles – part of a series of lectures on the campus of Columbia George Community College. And when asked if he thought his art made a difference in politics he had this to say: “Sometimes I go to bed at night feeling that I […]

I promise I don’t have an agenda or am getting paid to promote Dan Piraro, but he has certainly received quite a bit of digital ink here on the Daily Cartoonist recently. I’m not entirely sure how I came across this, but Dan has started a blog over at MySpace.com. So far the postings are […]

I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA. In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail as […]

Last January, I told you that Pat Oliphant was going to be part of a fund-raiser for the Harry Truman Presidential Library. Here now is a write up about the event that occured last Thursday. The event set a record for total money raised.Notice: The story doesn’t go into much detail of what Pat did […]

Kent Worcester will be interviewing Tom the Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling at the Museum of Comci and Cartoon Art in New York next Monday. Here are the details as sent to me by Kent.The New York-based Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) is hosting a special event this coming Monday titled “Ruben Bolling […]

Michael Jantze (the Norm) will be attending the FallCon in October. More news to come.