Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill and Al Jaffee
Another classic Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill. Best line as Tom sits between Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, “Between the three of us, we have two Reubens.”
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Video: Al Jaffee on creativity and professionalism
A quick two minute piece featuring Al Jaffee talking about his sense of professionalism in his work. Anyone who is going to accept your artwork is not there to solve your problems. You are there to solve their problems. When I get an assignment… I will not deliver it until I am satisfied that I…
CNN spotlights MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee
CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over…
Al Jaffee’s The MAD Fold-In Collection released
File this one in the must-have category: The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 Here’s Amazon’s description. Al Jaffee’s ‘Fold-Ins’, which have graced the back page of “MAD Magazine” since 1964, have become an icon of American humour, issue after issue, year after year, each fold-in requires the reader to simply fold tab A to tab B…
Al Jaffee wins Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist
The National Cartoonist Society has awarded this year’s Reuben Award for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the year to Al Jaffee. Al is a legendary cartoonist who is best known for his MAD Magazine’s Fold-in. He joined Mad Magazine in 1964.
Al Jaffee profiled in New York Times
Al Jaffee, the MAD Magazine cartoonist who draws the MAD Fold-In and one of this year’s Reuben Award nominees has been profiled by the New York Times. An excerpt: So Mr. Jaffee became a writer-artist. And in 1964 he had an idea. Playboy, Life and other magazines had their lavish color fold-outs, so Mad, he…
Interviewed: Friedman, Jaffee, Roth talk about Harvey Kurtzman
During the Society of Illustrators’s Celebrating Kurtzman Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth discussed the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman. Audio of the panel is now online. Via Tom Richmond
The Als of AI (Midjourney, AI Generator)
Continuing with Mike’s plagiarism theme of this morning we come to MalMidjourney. During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to a Google Sheet on the social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky, alleging that it showed how Midjourney developed a database of time periods, styles, genres, movements, mediums, techniques, and thousands of…
Seasonal Comic Strip Stuff
The firefighters who battled the Tubbs and Kincade fires received a “thank you” in a popular comic strip published on Monday. above: Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis “Pearls Before Swine” usually is about the misadventures of several animals, but creator Stephan Pastis of Santa Rosa shifted the comic’s focus to show how grateful he…
Reuben Awards Poster Reveals Special Honorees
Tom Richmond‘s poster for the National Cartoonists Society’s 72nd Annual Reuben Awards announces the Special Guests. Top row: Mark Tatulli, Arnold Roth, Mike Luckovich, Stephan Pastis, Glen Keane, Jake Tapper Bottom Row: Lynn Johnston, Hillary Price, Lynda Barry, Brendan Burford, Rick Stromoski The Reuben (Cartoonist of the Year) nominees were highlighted here earlier this week,…
N.Y. Times on a Midtown Bar’s Comic Wall of Art
From Today’s New York Times: This crumbling, beer-splotched wall in the back of a sports bar on East 44th Street is one of New York’s more neglected cultural treasures. Created in the 1970s, it is a veritable Sistine Chapel of American comic-strip art: the 30-some drawings across its face were left by a who’s who of cartooning…
NCS at C2E2 on 4/26-28/2024
The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NCS member cartoonists at Booth 848. Several members of the NCS will be tabling over the weekend, including: Brian Gordon, George Gant, Harold Bucholz, Dee Fish, Johnny…
2023 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Three: The Dearly Departed
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2023 – THE DEARLY DEPARTEDThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2023. JACK BENDERMarch 28, 1931 – January 5, 2023newspaper…
Senior Strippers – 2023 Edition
Belated birthday wishes to cartoonist Alan McClure. Also belated is the addition of Mr. McClure to our Senior Strippers list on the occasion of his turning 100, rather than at 90 as is customary. Cartoonist Alan McClure continues to create art decades after finding humour in news stories for Sydney Morning Herald readers. Shuana Foley…
One Fine Spring Week in the Funnies
A quick look at a some comics from the past week before Mike leads us into the new week in a few hours. Lemont Brown begins his book tour next month and will be partnered with his creator Doesn’t the universe, or at least the Candorverse, end when two separate entities of the same character…