Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Jerry Craft and his New Kid graphic novel make history. The School Library Journal reports: History was made at the 2020 Youth Media Awards in Philadelphia. A graphic novel has won the John Newbery Medal for the first time in its nearly 100-year history [emphasis added] as Jerry Craft earned the honor for New Kid….
The Tribune in San Luis Obispo found out that Jim Borgman, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott were all going to be in one place and sent a reporter over for an interview. The result is a lot of tidbits on how these hugely successful strips came about and the working relationships between the creators. Jerry…
The family of Jerry Robinson, creator of Batman characters The Joker and Robin has donated 60 pieces of original cartoon art to the Cartoon Art Museum. Most pieces are art from other famous cartoonists such as George Herriman, Bud Fisher, Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly and Winsor McCay. From SFWeekly: The donation largely consists of comic…
From the press release: Classic works by Jerry Robinson of Batman, Robin and a rogues gallery of villains, including Robinson’s creation, the Joker, can be seen on www.JerryRobinsonArt.com. In the coming days more art by Robinson and other legendary artists will be added. The new web site covers Jerry’s career of over 70 years ?…
Bob Andelman recently interviewed Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman and Zits creators Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Topics discussed include raising their own kids, what they’d think if their kids wanted to become a cartoonist, collaborating with each other, side projects (or avoidance of), feature optioning, and coming up with the character’s…
E&P is reporting that Jerry Scott will not be attending this year’s Toonfest due to a “medical condition requiring surgery” and that Michael Jantze will be joining Dave Coverly, Jan Eliot and Greg Evans instead. Toonfest is held each year in Walt Disney’s home town of Marceline MS and will be held on September 19-20….
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) will be conducting a live interview with Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman and Rick Kirkman on Tuesday August 26th at 4 p.m. EST. The show is live and listeners can call in or participate via a webchat. See Bob’s Talkshoe site for details.
This year’s grand marshals and featured guests at the 10th Annual Walt Disney’s Hometown Toonfest will include Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Greg Evans (Luann), and Jerry Scott (co-creator of Zits and Baby Blues). The event runs September 19-20 in Marceline, Mo, the birth place of Walt Disney. The four cartoonists will…
Baby Blues creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott will be at the Charles M. Schulz Museum this weekend for a two day fund-raising event. On Saturday night, the two will attend a Major Donors reception where they will speak about their work, talk to guests and sign books. On Sunday, April 27th, the museum will…
Two stories of interest on the topic of where the future lies for comics. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks at the grown of web comics and interviews the usual suspects, Scott Kurtz (PVP), Scott McCloud, and Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame. Scott McCloud: “It defies reason to think this isn’t a…
The Charles M. Schulz museum has a full schedule this spring. On March 31, they’ll uncover the nursery wall that Charles’ painted back in 1951 in his home that has since been restored. On April 21, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman will be on hand to talk about their Zits feature. On May 5th –…
King Features has announced that Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott’s Zits has crossed another client list milestone with over 1,500 subscribers worldwide. Zits was launched in 1997 and within it’s first four years had already surpassed 500 clients, according to Jay Kennedy, Editor in Chief of King Features.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is celebrating 30 with Jim Borgman as their editorial cartoonist. To commemorate, they’ve posted a Q&A with Jim, several congratulatory cartoons from fellow cartoonists (includng Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Mike Luckovich, Marshall Ramsey, Jerry Scott, Jeff Stahler, Lynn & Rod Johnston), a video of Jim at work re-drawing the winning cartoon from the contest, a slideshow of 9 of his most favorite cartoons, caricatures of the local politicians he’s skewered over the years, and finally some of the cartoon contest runner ups.
Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott will be at Borders bookstore in West Village (near Dallas TX) to sign boosk between 7-8pm tomorrow night, according to Jim’s blog.They will also be appearing on a local morning TV show, talking with Dallas Morning News reporter Mike Peters.
There is a great article over at the LA Times about an upcoming “Sunday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books” symposium that will examine the future of comics in the newspaper…. Other cartoonists on the panel include Cathy Guisewite (“Cathy”), Jerry Scott (“Baby Blues” and “Zits”) and Lalo Alcaraz (“La Cucaracha”).Berkeley:”I don’t think you’ll ever see another ‘Calvin & Hobbes,’ ‘Bloom County’ or ‘Doonesbury’ again,” says Breathed, 48, who received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.