National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards presented May 18, 2019. Nominees listed, winners highlighted EDITORIAL CARTOONS Clay Bennett Michael Ramirez Rob Rogers MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Tom Bunk Amy Kurzweil Jim Woodring FEATURE ANIMATION Shiyoon Kim – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Peter Ramsay – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Justin K. Thompson – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse TELEVISION ANIMATION Samuel Deats – Castlevania […]
Vermont artist Edward Koren’s new book “Koren. In the Wild” is the gold medal winner of the 31st Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for humor. Sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, the award celebrates excellence in book editorial and design. Koren, of Brookfield, a frequent contributor to New Yorker magazine, is Vermont’s second cartoonist […]
How closely is the McClellan clan based on your family? Too close — way too close. I’m pretty much writing stories about growing up. Ask my mother, she’d have a lot to say about it. Wallace appeared for a few years at gocomics.com before it got picked up for newspaper distribution. When did it launch […]
Dear Leader has revealed his plans for reforming immigration, and Jack Ohman sums it up: The idea is to have only people come here if they don’t need to be here, and the question is whether the people who harvest our fruits and vegetables will have full Phd’s or if we will allow people to […]
As a scholar who studies social media and memetics, I wonder if political cartoons are the best way to connect with today’s diverse readership. Many crave searing, cutting political commentary – and they’re finding it in internet memes. What if internet memes were elevated – not only as a serious art form but also as […]
Edison’s back in the Kenosha News and all’s right with the world.Though maybe that’s all that’s right with the world. Between the Alabama abortion law, a pending war with Iran and Mexico burning itself to the ground, there’s plenty to fill the 12 or 16 pages of the Daily Herald.But never mind, because it’s Friday […]
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 […]