Ray Billingsley has been named Cartoonist of the Year and was presented with the 75th Annual Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society. From the National Cartoonist Society announcement:The recipient of the cartooning profession’s highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, is chosen by a secret ballot of the members of the […]
Awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, The Gold Key honors the recipient as a member of the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame.Mort Gerberg is awarded The NCS Gold Key. The Gold T-Square is awarded for 50 years as professional cartoonist.Garry Trudeau is now a member of an elite Gold T-Square club. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The National Cartoonists Society‘s celebratory weekend begins Friday October 15, 2021 at 11 a.m. (eastern). For information:Schedule details at https://ncsfest.com/Details at The 75th Annual Reuben Awards
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]