New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff was in Denver last night as the featured guest at the Denver Press Club. The event was hosted by Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe and Rocky Mountain News cartoonist Ed Stein.
Editorial cartoonist from around the world met in New York at the United Nations to discuss the topic of free expression and respect for religious beliefs. Representing the United States was Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Fifteen cartoonists from Denmark, the Middle East, US and Africa attended. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the seminar.
Doug Marlette will be in Hillsborough on October 29th to attend a reading sponsored by the Orange County Public Library. Doug’s book, Magic Time has been released and is available for purchase.
The are testing out Baby Blues, F minus, Lio, Over the Hedge, Red and Rover, Soup to Nutz, and Watch Your Head.You can head over and vote now. The do ask for an email address, gender, age, etc. I took the poll twice, so unless they’re filtering it on the back end, it looks like this survey could be easily hi-jacked.
Michael Jantz’s art work will be featured at Cartoonlandia in San Francisco on October 19. Mark Fiore’s work will also be shown.
Mark Tatulli’s Lio has won the Hartford Courant’s online comics poll according to E&P. That poll was protested by NCS President Rick Stromoski (who’s feature Soup to Nutz was not comic in the poll). Lio was up against Brevity, F Minus, On a Claire Day, and Silo Roberts.
Nick Anderson’s latest animated editorial cartoon has been posted. This last salvo picks on Hillary Clinton’s baggage and is a parody of Black Eye Peas’ “My Humps”.
Open Season is still doing well in theaters after three weekends. So far the film has grossed $59 million domestically ($63 worldwide).
Darrin Bell has announced on his blog that his new book, Another Stereotype Bites the Dust: A Candorville Collection, is hot off the press and will be on store shelves shortly. If you can’t wait for the retail store, he has a few copies that he can sell you off of his web site and they come autographed and with a sketch of one of the characters as well. Visit his web site for details.
It’s that time of year again when the leaves turn colors and notices of deadlines for cartooning awards are being distributed throughout the community. First up is the Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award. Deadline is in December. It has a $10k payoff to the winner.
E&P reports that a wall from a Colorado Springs home where Charles Schulz lived has been removed and sent to the Charles M…. The wall had been repainted by later residents, but Stan and Polly Travnicek who bought the home in 1979, learned about the paintings underneath and successfully removed the layers of paint to reveal the original artwork below (consisting of characters from Peanuts and other storybooks).
The Denton Record-Chronicle has let go of it’s freelance editorial cartoonist J.R. Lane due to budget constraints. The paper, which is a sister paper to the Dallas Morning News has been using J.R.’s local and national cartoons since 2001.
NCS President Rick Stromski took issue with the Hartford Courant’s latest cartoon poll that I mentioned last Friday and wrote a letter to the editor arguing that the polls were flawed and that editors ought select the comic strips themselves.
After the Masters of American Comics exhibit left LA and Milwaukee, I kind of let it slide as to the events surrounding it in various cities. Now that the exhibit is in New Jersy, there are some interesting panel discussions scheduled.
Lucy Shelton Caswell was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to talk about The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library which has the largest collection of cartoons in America. Head over and give it a listen.