above: Rob Tornoe for Editor & PublisherYesterday our friend Mike mentioned the state of the newspaper industry:The industry is already in rough shape, and we can argue how much of that came from the Internet itself and how much was from a colossally foolish lack of response to the Internet and how much of that […]
Rod Emmerson offers tips for the lockdown and it all looks good to me, mostly because he accurately mirrors what I’ve seen in social media.Mostly what I’ve seen is my cartooning compadres saying “I’ve been training for this my whole life!” because those of us who make a living with a computer at home aren’t […]
As Clay Jones says:It’s not one of his animations,It’s not one of his “watch me draw” videos,It’s not one of his print cartoons,No, it’s not any of the things we are used to enjoying from Clay.Clay sez:Check out my very first political cartoon video. It’s not a print cartoon, animation, or watching me draw. It’s […]
Rob Harrell began as a cartoonist (Big Top) and he continues as one (Adam @ Home). Rob’s a graphic novelist (Monster on the Hill) and creator of illustrated young adult books (Life of Zarf). Now, with Wink, Rob is going full on novelist, though he couldn’t resist throwing in a couple illustrations.Wink is released today, […]
The combined price for the original art making up the first Flash Gordon/Jungle Jim page of January 7, 1934 sold for over a half million dollars today at Profiles in History.The original art of the first Flash Gordon strip by Alex Raymond sold for $480,000, a record for original comic strip art. The original art […]
This is the debut of a possibly recurring feature called “Three Word Answer” on The Daily Cartoonist where we’ll ask a cartoonist 20 questions. They’re instructed to answer each of the questions in three words (or fewer). Of the 20 questions, the cartoonist may chose three questions (of the 20 total) to elaborate on with […]
There are many things that Dear Leader can’t seem to understand, and Jimmy Margulies captures two of them here: One is that Trump genuinely has no sense of empathy. It’s not that he ignores or downplays the suffering of others. He genuinely does not get it.So he can cheerfully toss paper towels to people during […]
“Thirty years of avoiding other human beings . . . validated!”Read Chris Ware‘s comic strip in The New Yorker.Also: Chris Ware talks about his April 6, 2020 New Yorker COVID-19 cover.
Children’s book author/illustrator Tomie dePaola has passed away.Thomas Anthony (Tomie) dePaola September 15, 1934 – March 30, 2020 Earlier today Tomie’s publisher announced via Facebook:We mourn the loss of a master storyteller. Tomie dePaola has passed away. We extend our sympathy to his legions of readers, friends, and colleagues. From Tomie’s website:He has written and/or illustrated […]
Not to minimize the efforts of Edgar, who has been doing an excellent job of regularly updating the Comics Kingdom Blog, but it is exciting (to me) that beginning last week King Features Syndicate cartoonists have joined Edgar in posting to the blog.Brian Walker, Alex Hallatt, Wayno, Rino Piccolo, Jim Keefe, Bill Bettwy, John Rose, […]
Per the Washingtonian, Politico and Andrews McMeel editorial cartoonist Matt Weurker is hosting a virtual cartooning class for kids on Wednesday April 1st.From the piece:If you’d like to take part in the 30-minute session, Wuerker advises having ten sheets of copier paper and a pen handy. “If you’re a real coward, you can use a […]
Michael de Adder‘s gag is particularly funny because it relies on the notion that this is all part of some cunning plan, and that, if he wanted to give away his secrets, Donald Trump could write a book about what he does and why.Also that his contradictory positions are somehow pleasurable.In reality, he’s mad as […]
Just a wonderful installment of Wiley’s Non Sequitur today.Wiley – please consider allowing the GoComics shop to make a print available of this beautiful take on autism.Wiley informs me that prints are available, (I am so used to seeing the “Buy a Print” notice below the GoComics strips, that I completely overlooked the “Non Sequitur […]
Graeme MacKay offers some advice for those working from home.Several decades ago — the kids are in their 40s now — I used to write at home and manage kids, so my patience with people who cartoon about the impossibility of that is fairly limited, though I guess it’s easier if you’ve been doing it […]
On the occasion of an upcoming book…Bado’s Blog reviews the Duncan Macpherson biograpy. In northern New Zealand… The Times this week began featuring cartoons from Aucklander Isabelle Russell. In anticipation of his forthcoming book…Tom Gauld is interviewed by Creative Review. Short book review from Publishers Weekly here. In 2006 a blogger called Charles Lavoie wrote that every New […]