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Reuben Weekend – NCS Divisional Award Winners 3

The National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of the final Divisional Awards for 2020 Saturday evening. The nominees and the winners of those categories are below.Nominees for Comic Books And the winner is…Walter Simonson  Nominees for Graphic NovelsAnd the winner is…Jared Cullum  Nominees for Book IllustrationAnd the winner is…Janee Trasler  Nominees for Gag CartoonsAnd the winner is…Ellis Rosen  Nominees for […]

Reuben Weekend – NCS Divisional Award Winners 2

The National Cartoonists Society announced the Divisional Animation Awards Saturday afternoon. Here are the nominees and the winners for 2020 work in those categories. Nominees for Feature Animation And the winner is… Maria Pareja   Nominees for Television AnimationAnd the winner is…Genndy Tartakovsky  Nominees for Online AnimationAnd the winner is…Sammy Moore and Even Stenhouse The NCS has put the […]

CSotD: Saturday Mix

Some days, I take Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s cheerful outlook on things, other days I adopt Spud’s dour viewpoint.Today will be a mix of both, though perhaps a bit more on the Spud side of life. F’rinstance, Lee Judge (KFS) makes a pun out of Cost of Living Allowance and cola-as-in-soft-drink, but that’s about what the […]

Reuben Weekend – NCS Divisional Award Winners 1

Friday evening saw the National Cartoonists Society announce the winners of a half dozen of the 16 Divisional Awards for 2020 work. And the nominees and winners for those Divisional Awards: Nominees for Advertising/Product Illustration And the winner is… Luke McGarry   Nominees for Greeting Cards And the winner is…Scott Nickel   Nominees for Online Comics LongformAnd the winner […]

CSotD: Oh, What a Lovely War!

Michael Ramirez (Creators) paints as good a picture of our current situation as anyone.He’s not the first political cartoonist to depict Moses coming down from Mt Sinai to find his people in a state of idolatry, but he is more explicit in labeling their idol as conspiracies and bull and tying the delusion into Q-Anon. […]

Comic Chronicles: Will Be That Was

Old stuff.A London illustrator in 1898 looks ahead one hundred years and is not all that far off. ‘Cycle lane, Rollerblades (missed out on electric scooters), Lots of buses, Planes, St Pauls still visible, Raised walkways (Barbican only). That’s impressive,’ one history fan wrote.  © respective copyright holdersArtist Hal Empie‘s sideline was cartoon postcards. “He […]

Would Herblock Get a Staff Cartoonist Job Today?

        Herbert Block, born 112 years ago yesterday, had a long and successful career drawing a salary from newspapers and syndicates. Thousands of other editorial cartoonist did the same during the 20th century. These days maybe two dozen political cartoonists hold a staff position with the attendant security of salary and benefits.As […]

Hey Kids! Comics! Pure Treat

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Korean War Comic Books Our Artists At War Unicorn Playlist Inked Scenes from Isolation Definitely Nat: The Nat Enough Collection Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak How Not to Get into […]

CSotD: The Curse of Certainty

In Agnes (Creators), Trout is only pretending to be obsessed with uncertainty, but she’d do well on social media, where knee-jerk skepticism is generally mistaken for wisdom.It’s good to be skeptical. You should question everything.Howsoever, there is a level of fundamentalist disbelief which is every bit as irrational as fundamental belief. Also, equally arrogant and […]

Braddock At The Beacon – Past & Present Paige

Famed University of Tennessee alumna and former UT Daily Beacon contributor Paige Braddock will sit for a virtual Q & A session held by UT’s Pride Center on November 2, 2021. As a bit of a preview Paige recently answered some questions from current Daily Beacon Editor-in-Chief Sarah Rainey. Who are you, and what is […]

Matt Dent – RIP

Cartoonist Matt Dent has passed away.   Matthew Scott (Matt) Dent August 4, 1971 – September 20, 2021 artist, illustrator, cartoonistFrom the obituary: Matt graduated from TL Hanna High School in 1989 and went on to Kansas City Art Institute, where he graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  He worked at WSPA TV […]

David DePatie – RIP

Academy Award-winning animation producer David DePatie has passed away.  David Hudson DePatie December 24, 1929 – September 23, 2021  From cartoon historian Jerry Beck’s memoriam: There is much to say about DePatie, but I’ll start with the fact he was the last producer of the Warner Bros. Animation Division in 1961-62 – the department that […]

CSotD: Pressing a few points

First Dog on the Moon touches on several points, beginning with how stories get assigned, but you’ll have to go here to read the whole thingMost newsroom people at daily papers work from just after lunch until roughly 9 pm or so, which means that, for the most part, they only know each other, since […]

More Star Trek(ish) News – Won’t Boldly Go

(Reuters) – Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP and the makers of the Dr. Seuss/”Star Trek” mashup book “Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!” have settled Seuss’ copyright infringement claims, according to a Tuesday filing in San Diego federal court. In an agreement filed with the court, the parties agreed that the book infringes Seuss’ copyrights and […]

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