Industry news for the professional cartoonist
According to E&P and confirmed on Dan Piraro’s web site – Dan’s one man comedy act has added three more cities to his tour. Cities now added: Dallas, May 21 – Lakewood Theater Tulsa, May 22 – Nightingale Theater Chicago, May 25 – The I.O. Theater For more information on his show, including video clips,…
Dan Piraro will receive the Ongoing Commitment Award at the 20th Annual Genesis Awards. The Genesis awards is put on by The Humane Society of the United States. Dan won the a Genesis award in 2002 for Outstanding Cartooning. “Over the years, we have been proud to recognize Dan Piraro’s stunning work with Genesis Awards…
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, has apologized for a recent cartoon depicting two cowboys around the campfire and one of them singing, “It?s been six long weeks since I seen a woman, and yer startin? to look pretty good.” The caption reads “jeremiah’s last song.” Many felt the cartoon advocated or condoned the killing of…
I mentioned earlier that Hilary Price had competed on a improve cartooning show for a gallon of milk – which she won. A couple more notable syndicated cartoonists have now competed on the same show (Fistcuff): Rina Piccolo and Dan Piraro. Rina has photos from the event. The other two cartoonists were New Yorker cartoonists…
I’ve got confirmation that Stephen Pastis, Dan Piraro, and Richard Thompson have been nominated for this year’s Reuben Award For Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees are selected by a secret ballot from the members of the National Cartoonists Society. Both Stephan and Dan were nominated last year for the award (Dave Coverly took…
Over on the Hogan’s Alley discusssion board is a brief interview with Dan Piraro and Dave Coverly regarding their inclusion into Parade Magazine. It appears that they were sought out by the magazine and that their work will appear on a not-set-but-probably-every-other-week schedule.
p>Reuben Award finalists Bill Amend, Dave Coverly, and Dan Piraro are the featured guest on Washington Post’s Meet the funny pages online chat tomorrow. Questions can be submitted anytime before and during the chat session which begins on 1 p.m. EST.
The Evening Times (British paper) has a story on Kieran Meehan who is up for a Reuben award in the newspaper panels category. From the Honolulu Advertiser comes news that Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro will be Hawaii next week on April 10 to speak on cartooning and veganism. Visit the link above for times.
Two Reuben weekend attendees, Mark Anderson and Mike Lynch have posted their photos and details of their weekend.Mark live-blogged his first and second day of attending sessions and meeting other cartoonists…. Mike also has shots of several attendees such as Dan Piraro, Tony Murphy, Rina Piccolo, Stan and Pauline Goldberg, Chuck Goll, Dan Collins, and Bunny Hoest.
Today at 1 p.m. (EST) the five nominees for the Reuben Award will be guests on the Washington Post’s chat forum. The five guests and nominees are: Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Brian Crane (Pickles), Mike Luckovich and Dan Piraro (Bizarro).You can submit questions ahead of time on the wp site.
From Lynn Johnston’s web site comes news that she and several other cartoonist will be attending a book signing at the Borders bookstore in Chicago the weekend of the Reuben awards. The other artists include: Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues), Darrin Bell (Candorville and Rudy Park), Jef Mallett (Frazz), Paul Gilligan (Pooch Cafe), Greg Evans (Luann), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) and Mark Pett (Lucky Cow).
Let’s start with some King Features funnies … oh, wait it’s been two days since the last time and I have to log in, again, and check off my favorites, again. So, again, I will plead for Comics Kingdom to put a “select all” box on their favorites page that would automatically check all the…
Ernest Lawrence Thayer with Brian Nelson and Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, Garfield, Steve Brodner and The Herblock Prize, Jay Stephens’ homage to EC, AI gag writing, a centennial Annie-versary, and Dan Piraro and Wayno and Bizarro. Batter up! Brian Nelson, at The Worcester Telegram, offers a brief history of Casey at the Bat in…
Dave Whamond began Holy Week with his Palm Sunday Reality Check page depicting The Last Supper a few days earlier than it is traditionally held and doing a pretty good job of showing the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. The past week began in earnest with Monday and Greg Cravens playing with negative art in The…
Some thoughts on scrolling through The Sunday Funnies on the new revised Comics Kingdom site. That gawdawful black background has gotta go. Or at the very least surround every comic with an eight inch (preferably a quarter inch) of white space a la The Saga of Brann Bjornson. Too much clicking. To start my look…