Spring Break Cartooning with Mike LynchABOUT THE CLASS: Make comics with professional cartoonist Mike Lynch. In this week-long course, we will learn to create characters, animals, dinosaurs, monsters, sharks, superheroes, aliens, word balloons (BOOM! POW! CRASH!) and more, and then put these drawing skills together to make our own comic book stories together via Zoom. […]
New Orleans alternative cartoonist and music critic Bunny Matthews has decided to discontinue cancer treatment and entered hospice. His family has created a crowd funding page for final costs.From Gambit:Jude Matthews said in a statement on the Musicians Clinic’s website that his father’s life earnings from his prolific creative works have been “snapped up by […]
From PRWeb: CHICAGO (PRWEB)April 08, 2021 The Pritzker Military Museum & Library is proud to announce its newest exhibit, “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & the Art of War,” which will celebrate the artistic career of cartoonist Bill Mauldin. © Chicago Sun Times/Bill MauldinFrom the Pritzker Military Museum and Library:For nearly fifty years, from World […]
In 1948 Jerry Keefe, an advertising and commercial artist, decided, like so many before and since, to become a world-famous comic strip cartoonist. Jerry claimed that he was “reluctant to become entangled with the big city syndicates.” So Keefe tried self-syndicating his weekly comic strip. © the estate of Jerry KeefeThe O’Kays by “Jay Kay” […]
I don’t remember if I was in second or third grade, but just about the time this 1957 Buz Sawyer (KFS) strip ran, we had an assembly where a husband-and-wife team explained communism to us and why we didn’t want it to creep into our society. I suspect they were from the John Birch Society, […]
1940s Wonder Woman writer Joye Hummel has passed away. Joye Evelyn Murchison Kelly (neé Hummel)April 4, 1924 – April 5, 2021 Anina Bennett was among those breaking the sad news: RIP Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly, the first woman to write [Wonder Woman] comics in the 1940s. After Joye it would be nearly 40 years before […]
From the Arizona State University bulletin: For more than 25 years, award-winning political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has advocated for Latino and immigrant rights through his work. Now, he is bringing his passion for these issues to Arizona State University’s School of Transborder Studies to serve as the school’s first-ever virtual artist in residence. Lalo Alcarez […]
We’ll get to the funny pages in a minute, but here’s Ann Telnaes (WaPo)‘s take on Mitch McConnell’s latest.McConnell stating that corporations should stay out of politics, and his immediate clarification that he didn’t mean they shouldn’t donate, drew several editorial cartoons in response.Telnaes’ piece stands out because of its economy: She trusts her readers […]
The Overseas Press Club of America announced today that Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has been named the winner of their annual cartoon award. Cartoons THE BEST CARTOON AWARD Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs Sponsor: Daimler Kevin Kallaugher (pen name KAL) Judges: Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher seems like a cartoonist transported from […]
Matt Bors has announced his plans to change his cartooning routine: After 18 years and more than 1,600 political cartoons, I’ve decided to retire my weekly comic. This is a decision long in the making, one I’ve slowly walked myself up to over the years, and have recently decided is time to commit to. My […]
MAD writer Frank Jacobs has passed away.Franklin (Frank) JacobsMay 30, 1929 – April 5, 2021 The Jacobs family broke the news on social media: I’m sad to announce that my father, Frank Jacobs, passed away this morning. From a 2009 Los Angeles Times article: Just out of the Army, where he wrote for the newspaper Pacific […]
Some headline writer at the New York Times has won the Captain Obvious award for that one, though I prefer Ann Telnaes (WaPo)‘s graphic take on things, which, in turn, is partially inspired by a ghastly, hilarious, horrifying Bulwark piece by Charlie Sykes, headlined “Lordy, There Were Hula Hoops.”And, lordy, there were.That NYTimes hed appears […]
© Bianca Xunise Xunise’s work is funny and thoughtful. Her linework has this playful energy, and she has a masterful talent for playing with tone in different ways, even as her work shifts from moving personal stories to deep political analysis to elegant and perfectly structured gag cartoons. She is part of the great tradition […]
Easter Monday is a bit slack, but that gives me a free space in which to indulge in picking up some things yesterday’s Georgia rant distracted me from, like Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS).And I’ll disagree with Wiley’s take, but only because our situations seem reversed: If my pup gets out without her cable attached, she […]
© Tribune Content Agency The most impressive comic on this Easter Sunday has nothing to do with Easter:© King Features SyndicatePrince Valiant is on the inside of my four page Sunday comics section, and when I opened it up there was no denying how Thomas Yeates‘ large joust panel dominated the other comics.Right below the third […]