Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks animated TV show has won a Peabody Award for his “Return of the King” installment that depicted Martin Luther King, Jr, reawakening to today’s cultural society of gangsta rap and the war on terror.The awards will be presented on June 4th in New York City.
It looks like The Journal News editorial cartoonist Matt Davies is scheduled to appear on Minnesota Public radio to discuss the challenges of covering the war in editorial cartooning. Also slated during the segment will be Tim Kreider, an alternative weekly editorial cartoonist out of Baltimore.The segment will air during Midmorning about 10:06 a.m. CST
Farley creator Phil Frank will be lecturing at a San Francisco Museum and Historical Society (SFMHS) function on the 10th of April. He’ll be talking about his “fascinating relationships with five administrations of SF mayors and Bay Area politics” as well as auctioning off some of his originals to raise money for the museum. He’ll […]
Two Winsor McCay books are due out this summer. The first is “The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume One” (look for it on May 1) and the latter is a softcover edition of “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays” (June 1). Both books are published by Checker Book Publishing Group.The Little Nemo edition […]
Earlier this week, I told you that Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro, will be speaking in Hawaii next week. I’ve found other dates and times for his speaking engagements. This last Sunday he was in Florida. Check links below for ticket information.Apr. 3, 2007, 7:30 p.m.: New College of Florida, Sarasota, College Hall Apr. 10, 2007, […]
Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup has a collection of her work on display at the Opus6ix Fine Art Gallery in Eugene Oregon – her home town. The exhibit runs from March 31st through April 29th. This Saturday, on the 6th, there will be an artistic reception and then later on the 28th a book […]
The Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has won this year’s Fischetti Award. Receiving honorable mention are Clay Bennett of the Christian Science Monitor and Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The three will attend the awards ceremony in Chicago on April 30. While in Chicago, the three will participate in a panel discussion, […]
Steve Moore, creator of In The Bleachers, and co-creator and co-executive producer of the hit animation movie Open Season appears on a promotional video over on Amazon.com about his roll in the creation of the movie. If you haven’t seen Open Season, it’s quite entertaining. My kids laughed through the whole flick.You can purchase your […]
Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows, has hinted that he is in negotiations to create an animated television show based on Liberty Meadows but aimed at an adult audience with a PG-13 or R rating. No other details were mentioned, “because I don’t want to jinx it,” said Frank.In that same story, Frank talks about […]
The Evening Times (British paper) has a story on Kieran Meehan who is up for a Reuben award in the newspaper panels category.From the Honolulu Advertiser comes news that Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro will be Hawaii next week on April 10 to speak on cartooning and veganism. Visit the link above for times.
Last week’s Doonesbury storyline depicted B.D. meeting a female soldier who was seeking counseling for sexual trauma. The story (as well as the drawing of the young woman) hit close to home for one female soldier in Oregon who went AWOL to avoid a second deployment in Iraq where she has accused her supervising sergeants […]
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) has produced an animated short using his Digital Dubya that was created at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland. The animation pokes target’s Bush’s ire for KAL (“He drew my daddy”). You can see the short over on the Economist’s web site where KAL has been their editorial cartoonist […]
John McPherson, creator of Close to Home is scheduled to speak at the Humor Project’s 51st International Program on The Positive Power of Humor and Creativity on June 22 – 24 in Silver Bay, New York. John will speak on using humor in stressful situations in the work place.
Just about missed this one, but the Aljazeera English’s The Riz Khan Show is looking for editorial cartoons and editorial animations according to a posting over on the AAEC’s web site. Visit the site if interested.
E&P caught the story before I did. In an interview with Texas Monthly (scroll down), Berkeley Breathed slips what possibly be might be the end of his Opus feature. What interesting projects are on your horizon? BB: Three: a novel; two of my books are in development at Disney; and Opusâ??s death, which approaches. Has […]