On canadiancartoonists.com, they’ve posted an article about editorial cartoonist Vance Rodewalt of The Calgary Herald. It’s a rather long piece, but delves into Vance’s history of how he became a cartoonist, the vanishing number of editorial cartoonists and how political correctness is affecting editorial cartooning.The rise of political correctness, which, says Rodewalt, “kind of snuck […]
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be holding their second annual “Comics 4 Comix” fund raiser. The event features bay area stand-up comics, and the opportunity to purchase original cartoon art from Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Paul Madonna (All Over Coffee), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts). Comics 4 Comix will be held February 10. Ticket and […]
Via The Comics Reporter comes a link to a story about how editorial cartoonists in Canada are reacting to having to draw a new set of politicians that come with a new election cycle.Brian Mulroney had “The Chin.” Jean Chretien’s mouth — and what came out of it — made him great fodder. They were […]
Another fun but off-topic post. A couple of days ago a LiveJournal blogger invited artists on LiveJournal to draw a picture of Batgirl. Several hundred did. (Story continues below picture…)Batgirl is copyright by Clio Chiang, used by permission.One of the exciting things the internet is allowing artists to do is more communcal type projects such […]
Photo couresy of United MediaYou might remember an earlier posting in which the Kansas City Star was eliminating two pages from their Sunday comics thereby dropping a couple of comic features. Despite the dramatic shake-up, they did pick up on Brevity by writer Guy Endore-Kaiser and artist Rodd Perry. The Star has interviewed the two […]
Tank McNamara © Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds. Used by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All Rights Reserved.Universal Press has announced that “Tank McNamara” will be developed into a television show.“TANK MCNAMARA,” the venerable sports comic strip, has been optioned by Bender-Brown Productions for development into a television project. Chronicling the adventures of an ex-pro […]
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will run an exhibit of Israeli politicial cartoons starting February 1 and running through April 9. Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka will be speaking at the museum on Feb. 15. Should be interesting.
James Sturm, founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies was interviewed by the Village Voice regarding the goals and successes of the school.Generations of cartoonists are self-taught. Why found the Center? I wanted to teach and create a cartooning program that was more reflective of comics as an art form and not just a commercial […]
Anold Wagner has posted Bud Blake’s eulogy on his web site. The eulogy was delivered by Bud’s son. Bud died last month at the age of 87.Bud launched several strip ideas. I remember ?Inklings? which was all silhouettes. ?Tiger? came as a result of imaging how celebrities would have behaved as kids. Hugo was Mickey […]
SpongeBob SquarePants and Kellogg (think cereal) are being sued by the “Center for Sciences in the Public Interest” who believe that the advertising campaign using SpongeBob is deceiving little children who may not understand they’re viewing a commercial and tricked into eating “unhealthy food.”The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Boston-based group Campaign […]
Ed Stein, editorial cartoonist for Rocky Mountain News, was interviewed yesterday about his work as an editorial cartoonist and regarding his comic strip “Denver Square” that runs exclusively in the RMN. Mark(Q): How do you view your Denver Square cartoon strip differently from your editorial cartoons? Ed(A): I see Denver Square as a completely different […]
The Perry Ellis sports wear company is trying something new in their advertising campaigns – a comic strip.But now Perry Ellis has decided to replace its leading man (most recently, the actor Jerry O’Connell; before him, the actor Paul Rudd) with something less predictable: a comic strip. The new ad campaign features a male character […]
The Buffalo News is fielding submissions for the 2006 Editorial Cartoon Contest. For the last 12 years the News has sponsored this annual contest. Their current cartoonist, Adam Zyglis (personal site, cartoons on Cagle), is a past winner. The contest is open to all ages with three divisions based on age. You can download the […]
A bit late in coming with this one. Scott Nychay, of the Northwest Herald, recently took third place in editorial cartooning in the 2005 Suburban Newspapers of America contest.The local television station did a follow up about Scott and how he fell into cartooning.Scott Nychay calls himself ?basically a visual columnist.? His skills with pen […]
Signe Wilkinson, editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News, took part in a birthday celebration commemorating the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth.Today, we celebrate the 300th birthday of Philadelphia’s most famous citizen, with festivities throughout the city, most notably at the National Constitution Center, where a giant cake with 300 candles will be lit. […]