E&P reported that Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge will be speaking at the National Conference of Editorial Writers on September 29th. The topic of his speech? “Making the Case for an Endangered Species: Political Cartoonists.”When I wrote last week that today’s editorial cartoonists are “infatuated by their own victim status” this is an […]
Mike Lynch has posted a motivational review of Mark Tatull’s rise as a comic strip cartoonist that was first posted on The Wisenheimer. So what’s the point of all this? Well, back in ’97 I thought it was all over. I had to give up my dream out of necessity. Sales weren’t there and there […]
The Bat Segundo Show (a literary podcast) recently interviewed Opus creator Berkeley Breathed. See part 1 and part 2. I’ve not listened to these so I have no idea what the content would be, but presumably it’s about Berkeley’s new book.Thanks Mike Rhode for the heads up.
The Union of Concerned Scientists who sponsor the annual “American Science Idol” cartoon contest has announced this year’s winner. Jesse Springer of Eugene Oregon.Finalists (which will be featured in the calendar) include Matt Bors, Brian Orr, Matthew Shultz, Jen Sorensen, Tim White, Phil Witte, and Alejandro Yegros.Judges included Garry Trudeau, Tom Toles, and Dave Coverly. […]
Ventura County Star editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg writes in to share news that his section of the paper’s web site has been updated to include a blog, better bio, space for larger images, and shorter URL. He mentions that he’s also started adding animations, sketches and commentary on the blog as well. The new URL […]
Bill Kitchen, the former Miami Herald cartoonist, has died at the age of 78 of pancreatic cancer. Bill began working for the Herald in 1960 and officially retired in 1985 but continued to freelance to the paper until 2000. The Herald reports that in the 1960s, Bill was so popular that if he took a […]
ComicDC blogger Mike Rhode writes in to alert Daily Cartoonists that Chan Lowe, editorial cartoonist for the Sun-Sentinel, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. Chan is working with an animator who works in the Marketing Special Sections Department of the paper.
The St. Petersburg Times has a write up on John Graziano who draws the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! feature. First drawn nearly 90 years ago by Robert L. Ripley, the illustrations have a distinct mission: Bring the unusual to people. “Everybody is always curious about something out of the ordinary or different than what […]
Mikhaela Reid has posted some of the photos she took from this year’s AAEC convention. They’re hosted over on Ted Rall’s web site.
Francesco Marciuliano, the writer for Sally Forth and Medium Large is now blogging. Topics seemed scattered but mostly cartoon related.
Fox has kept The Simpsons Movie away from critics – usually a sign of a stinker, but movie reviews that are now being posted appear to be mostly in the positive. Over at Rotten-Tomatoes it is currently scoring a 79% (29 reviews total, 23 positive, 6 negative).A bad review: “The movie isn’t a disaster, just […]
While visiting Springfield Vermont (Springfield was the Springfield that beat out all other 13 Springfields vying to be THE Springfield in the Simpsons’ Movie), Matt Groening has said that he’d like to return and visit the Center for Cartoon Studies. The man behind Bart and Homer says he is impressed that Vermont is home to […]
A couple of funny page updates. The Crescent-News is starting to use the guest comic slot to tryout new features. First up for July and August is Brian Crane’s Pickles.The Edmonton Sun has added Six Chix, Pajama Diaries, and Dog Eat Doug to their line-up .The Press-Telegram has added 13 comics to a new section […]
Bill Mauldin, best known for his Willie and Joe characters to comment on World War II, will have a two-volume collection set published by Fantagraphics Books. According to E&P, many of the WWII cartoons have never been reprinted before. The book is entitlted “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years” and is slated for release in […]
Dear AAEC membersI didn’t get a chance to respond to one of Dave Astor’s stories about the blogging session at this month’s AAEC convention. The discussion apparently didn’t go well and was received luke warmly. The most egregious comment, in my opinion, came from David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who Astor reported as saying, […]