The 2009 Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the year goes to Dave Coverly. Dave does the comic panel “Speed Bump” and does panel cartoons formthe New Yorker and Parade Magazine. “Speed Bump” is syndicated through Creators Syndicate.Other nominees this year included Stephan Pastis, and Dan Piraro.
This years National Cartoonist Society’s division award has been given to Mark Tatulli for his comic strip “Lio”. Lio launched with Universal Press Syndicate in 2006 and has been one of the most recent success. Mark beats out Stephan Pastis and Richard Thompson for this honor.
Here are the results thus far:Greeting card: Jem Sullivan Comic books: Cyril Pedrosa for “Three Shadows” Advertising illustration: Craig McKay Gag Cartoons: Mort Gerberg Television animation: Sandra Equihua and Jorge Gutierrez for “El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Riviera” Feature Animation: Nicholas Marlet – character designs for “Kung Fu Panda” Magazine Feature/illustration: Sam Viviano Newspaper […]
I’m closing shop down for the weekend to head to AZ for a family wedding. Thanks to Mary Anne Grimes at United Media and John Read of Stay Tooned! magazine, we’ll be able to bring you the results of the National Cartoonists Association’s Reuben Awards weekend. Mary and John will be texting me the results […]
Things are still quite chaotic at work. I apologize that it’s eating into the time I usually dedicate to the blog. Products are set to launch first week of June. Things on the blog should pick up then. Until then, you’re all free to create an account and post any stories, discussion items that isn’t […]
C.H. Greenblatt, creator of Cartoon Network’s Chowder, writes that the final episode of the show is being produced right now.We don’t know if there’ll be any more Chowders after this one, so we have to assume this is the end until we hear otherwise. As I was told, CN doesn’t cancel shows, they just don’t […]
Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist for MSNBC and founder of Cagle Cartoons Syndicate has laid out what he believes is the future of syndication. It would seem that the new paradigm is to think of a syndicate like a store. A store in a good location has lots of customers who find the store. A store […]
Since I won’t be able to attend this year’s Reuben Award weekend due to a wedding in AZ, I’m looking for a “stringer” who would be willing to text the results to me. I can have canned announcements of the winners ready to go, but need someone on the inside who can tell me which […]
We have several Daily Cartoonist regulars who attended or participated in this weekend’s Maine Comics Arts Festival. Mike Peterson has posted his thoughts on the “Surviving as a Print Cartoonist” panel featuring Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuti (Retail, Gill) and Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate) with Mike Lynch moderating. Mike […]
Jeremy Love’s Bayou took home five awards this year in the annual Glyph Comics Awards. Jeremy took the top spot for the best Story of the Year, Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Female Character, and Best Comic Strip. Other winners include Black Lighting (Grant Morrison, Writer; Matthew Clark, Norm Rapmund, Rob Hunter, and Don Ho, […]
Draper Hill, the long-time Detroit News cartoonist, and eminent cartoon historian, passed away earlier this week. In addition to his decades of work as a staff cartoonist, he published biographies of Thomas Nast and James Gillray, and was long considered the “institutional memory” of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC).A past president of the […]
Sit Down, Shut Up, an animated sitcom that premiered on FOX in April, is shut down due to low ratings.The fifth episode, which was originally slated to air this Sunday, has been pulled from the schedule.
Order of Tales is an epic/fantasy graphic novel about a Teller named Koark. The orphaned son of Duke Themb, he is on a quest to fulfill the last request of his father. His family was charged with collecting and preserving the tales of all of the races of “a strange world.” Through his adventures he […]
Animation» Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist and illustrator who directed animation for Walt Disney’s Hercules, will host this year’s annual Dundee Literary Festival in Dundee England. Festival runs June 25 to 28.Interviews» Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot on cartooning and blogging: “Being online doesn’t give me ideas. Daydreaming does.”Museums/Exhibits» Speaking once again of Jan Eliot, she’ll have […]
Jeff Kinney, the creator of the “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series has been named as one of Time magazine’s World’s Most Influential People coming in at number 52. Kinney’s local upbringing and off-beat humor helped inspire his series of children’s books, “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” which chronicles the life of Greg […]