Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Accounts of comic/cartoon history that we stumbled on this past week. Eustace Tilley: Origins of an Icon Alex Jay’s short pictorial… leads us to R. C. Harvey’s 2017 True History of Eustace Tilley essay at The Comics Journal. Eustace Tilley is the name given to the 19th century boulevardier languidly inspecting a passing…
Michael Ramirez offers a challenging commentary on the toppling of statues, and, normally, I wouldn’t feature a cartoon with specific, glaring errors, but this one is worth addressing. The Buddhas were not historic but religious statues, while the destruction of Nimrud was also based on religious differences: Extremist Islamists wanting to wipe out not just…
I’m tempted to simply post Dave Brown‘s cartoon and walk away. Dear Leader’s childish speculation about UV light and disinfectants drew a lot of cartoons, many of them very funny, but, as absurd as his rambling word salad was, there wasn’t anything humorous about it, or about the way he continues to be enabled, not…
As my colleague DD Degg noted recently, Stephan Pastis has been getting more philosophical at Pearls Before Swine lately, with his tribute to his dog getting a great deal of attention. This shift means that the strip doesn’t always produce the belly laughs it did when it was new, but it probably wouldn’t anyway. We’re…
A new book from Eisner-nominated, Reuben and Addy award winner Jim Benton has been announced by IDW Publishing. The book is available for pre-order for a February 2019 release date. And there’s a nice blurb from Dav Pilkey on the cover. From the IDW site: When Clyde the Bear decides to ditch his safe and peaceful…
L’il Donnie starts us off with a laugh, but the problem, O Best Beloved, is that, no, he really doesn’t get it. Which isn’t funny. The Watergate comparisons are flying, mostly from people who were not around or at least who were not old enough 40-some years ago to follow that scandal in real time….
Blaine, The Hamilton Spectator’s editorial cartoonist for 30 years, passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 74. He had retired from the paper in 1993. Blaine was anything but bland. He had a black belt in karate, played guitar and sang, liked wearing cowboy boots and jewellery and was remembered for driving motorcycles…
Back in June I reported that several webcomic creators were planning on auctioning off original art to raise money for Gulf of Mexico clean up and restoration efforts. The auction for those originals is now underway. As of this posting, the most sought after original is from Kate Beaton’s Hark! a Vagrant. Auction ends July…
In a fund-raising project to benefit the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, 40 five-foot five-inch statues of Garfield will be placed along highway 101 in California. Each Garfield statue will be decorated by different artist. Each town that opts in to participate in the program must purchase the statue and pay $1000…
Back in April and June, I posted stories about editorial cartoonist Joe Heller’s participation in a fund raiser for the Einstein Project. The project involved 40 artists who decorated statues of butterflies, frogs and beetles that would be placed in several locations throughout Green Bay and later auctioned off. Last Tuesday the auction was held and Joe’s butterfly fetched $3,700 – the third highest for the evening.
Joe Heller, editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette will join several other Wisconsin artists to decorate 40 large butterfly, frog and beetle statues that will be placed in several places through out the city this summer…. The Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist will translate to powder-coated aluminum what he has long put on paper: a slew of newsmakers past and present.”It’s going to be presidents, state and local politicians and working my way into entertainers that are political and politicians that are entertainers ? anybody with a mouth and an opinion,” said Heller, who plans to attach a key to identify all the characters.