The M.P. Baker Library of Panola College will host [hosted] an exhibit of cartoons, illustrations, and associated artwork by Donnie Pitchford from March 19, 2019 to April 18, 2019 in the Fay Allison Gallery. Most recently he has worked as a freelancer for a variety of publications and art projects including serving as guest writer […]
Kenosha News editor Bob Heisse was stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand was Corporate orders to set the comics pages as ordered. The other hand had upset local readers wanting their cartoonist back in the paper.As regular readers of our comics page know, the Kenosha News recently changed its […]
Nate Beeler leads off in a flood of cartoons on the latest strategy of Right-to-Life extremists to force the Roberts Court to reconsider Roe v Wade.I like the piece in the first place because it combines a terse statement of the actual strategy with a metaphorical description of the primitive instincts that inspire it.I bristle […]
Today, King Features, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular iconic characters, announces they’ve joined Red Nose Day in their charitable mission to end child poverty in America and around the world. Red Nose Day 2019 takes place on Thursday, May 23.2019 marks Red Nose Day’s fifth year in the US. The […]
Then one year later when he decided to go it alone as an independent freelance illustrator…The small company grew as he worked freelance for various magazines for many years. Unfortunately, the rise of digital art, computer graphics put him out of business. “They wanted slick computer graphics instead, hand illustrations were no longer needed.” To […]
Going on in its own back yard, The Orange County Register has published a piece on this weekend’s NCS Fest.From the piece:Scattered through the panels and presentations of the weekend are stars such as Cathy Guisewhite of the comic strip “Cathy,” Stephan Pastis of “Pearls Before Swine,” and Jeff Keane who took over “The Family […]
Cartoonist Steve McGarry says that whenever he runs into people who insist they have no interest in the world of cartoons he likes to prove them wrong. “I don’t care who you are,” says McGarry, the president of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, which will debut the inaugural NCS Fest in Huntington Beach this weekend. […]
Foreign media outlets that frequently incite against Israel are much more likely than others to slip into antisemitism. The recent cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published by The New York Times is a case in point. Yet this daily was only one example among many.Manfred Gerstenfeld, for The Algemeiner, examines recent samples of […]
I’ve subscribed to “Counterpoint,” a new weekly compilation of political cartoons, which you can, too, by clicking that link and then selecting “subscribe” at the top left.It includes Nick Anderson, Kal Kallaugher, Mike Lester, Rick McKee, Michael Ramirez and Rob Rogers, which is, I think, an accidental mix of three from the left and three […]
Animator vs. Cartoonist: Drawing Looney Tunes Characters From Memory.The gang tries to draw Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Marvin The Martian from memory. How well would -you- do?A BuzzFeed Video.
In the beginning, there was “the word.” And then Ben Franklin added cartoons to your favourite newspaper. It is 265 years ago this month that the then-loyal British citizen Franklin published an edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette with a woodcut print of a snake cut into segments with the caption, “Join or Die.” It was […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) Paperback Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974 30 Years Of Matt Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1947-1949 We Are […]
The Los Angeles Times has a feature on the seven books that aren’t Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” to give to graduates.From the piece:Most college graduates weren’t even born when the last “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip was published in 1996, but it’s never too late to dive into Watterson’s magical world.
I wish I thought Mike Thompson were kidding a little more about this.Not that it’s 100 percent accurate: So far as I know, you won’t see goats and chickens wandering around the streets in Tehran. One of the oddities of Iran is that it has modern, Western-facing cities but the people out in the country […]
Saturday, May 18, will celebrate the best in a wide range of cartooning categories with The Reuben Award Dinner and Presentation Ceremonies.The people at Hogan’s Alley think they have the inside track as to who will win.For example:NOMINEES FOR THE GREETING CARD DIVISION AWARD: Scott Nickel, Maria Scrivan and Dan Walsh. After a one-year hiatus, […]