The artwork of Tak Toyoshima, creator of Secret Asian Man, will be featured in two upcoming exhibits. Beginning Aug. 15 and running through Sept. 14, Tak’s work will be featured in the Napa Valley Museum for their “Manga & Anime: An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon Art” exhibit. Also featured in this exhibit is Deb Aoki […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston will be the guest of honor at this year’s Doug Wright Awards ceremony. She’ll also be inducted into the “Giants of the North” Canadian Cartoonists’ Hall of Fame this Friday night in Toronto.
Jack Shafer of Slate has written a commentary in Business Spectator about the demise of the print newspaper. In essence he maintains that the social web (Facebook, etc.) has replaced the newspaper’s traditional role of social currency. Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its […]
» 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 […]
The Times Union marks that 40 years ago last Thursday was the first time the Peanut character Franklin appeared in print and its significance in race relations in America during that time of U.S. history. Franklin was never as big a star as Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder or Pigpen. He didn’t have a last name […]
I believe we’ve discussed this topic on this blog before, but Mike Lynch ran a poll among his readers asking which 20th century cartoonist was the most influential. According to his readers, Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, and Milton Caniff were the top five. He discusses the results on his blog.
Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star, is having an art show at the JCC (Jewish Community Center) in Indianapolis on Thursday night at 6:00 p.m. The show, called “Varvelous” will include around 30 of his original political cartoons, caricature paintings of Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning and a few sketches and prints. His […]
Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew has crowned Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy by Jack Pierce the worst comic strip ever. When I seek out films for my Worst Cartoons Ever! screenings or Cartoon Dump I look for animation so bad it’s unintentionally funny. So when I came across a batch of old issues of My […]
The Washington Post has cobbled together interviews with Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonists Steve Breen, Mike Luckovich, and Signe Wilkinson on how they approach caricaturing the Democratic and Republican Presidential hopefuls. Below is an interview that they did with Steve, presumably at the San Diego Comic Con. Also, check out the photo gallery of their cartoons.
Nick Anderson, President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists and cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle, has released the following statement regarding the recent number of editorial cartoonist positions being eliminated. Everyone understands that these are tough times for newspapers, but they have gone from full panic mode to suicide mode. Many editorial cartoonists are […]
What is becoming known as “he Midsummer Massacre” may not be over. A couple of news reports indicate that more job cuts are coming for select chain newspapers. Bloomberg reports that A.H. Belo Corp., the publisher of the Dallas Morning News and three other dailies, will trim 500 newspaper jobs. It’s unreported how many of […]
Dave Astor at E&P is reporting that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has been “forced” to take a buyout. In an email Stuart wrote to milwaukeeworld.com he says, ‘Fraid it’s true. Given the cutbacks planned at the JS I was told they could no longer “justify” having a full-time editorial cartoonist. Although I’m […]
Last month, I told you that Retail creator Norm Feuti was working on a second strip entitled Gill. He has posted the Gill syndication submission online. He writes: Well, so far Gill has received a “pass” from both King Features and Universal Press. Both Brendan Burford (my editor at King) and John Glynn (the comic […]
The company that I host with has notified me that they applied an update last night to the server that The Daily Cartoonist runs on. The “fix” has caused issues that has affected whether TDC loads or not.The issue should be resolved soon, but until then, thanks for your patience.UPDATE: The site has been up […]
The Beat is reporting that Ballantine books will be printing a collection of the Garfield Minus Garfield strips by Dan Walsh. From their press release: The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison. Dublin, Ireland-based Garfield Minus Garfield […]