Over the Comics Kingdom blog, they’ve sampled a few cartoonists for the words of encouragement that most affected their careers.From the post: Jim Borgman: … when every aspiring editorial cartoonist was falling under the spell of Jeff MacNelly’s work, I sent him samples of my fledgling college cartoons, which were struggling to stand on their own […]
For the love of God and Thomas Nast and Woodsy Owl, can we please, please stop with the paper towel cartoons?Yes, Trump once disgraced himself and showed his lack of compassion by tossing out paper towels at a photo op in the wake of Hurricane Maria.We all know that, and, in fact, a short time […]
The Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest in Marceline, Missouri is celebrating its 20th year. This year’s guest speakers include writer and illustrator Ken Alvine, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly, sculptor and art director Ken Melton and “Thatababy” syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Paul Trap.Click here for more info and speaker bios.https://www.facebook.com/events/268339700451960/Radio interview about Toonfest.
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a follow-up piece over at the Washignton Post Comic Riffs section to the Serena Williams editorial cartoon controversary by talking to a few professionals about how they would have handled illustrating an unhappy Serena Williams.From the piece:DARRIN BELL (King Features): “It’s not hard to caricature a black person. Just don’t do it […]
Cartoonist and worship leader Lorraine Williams has passed away.After moving to Homer, she attended and graduated from Alaska Bible Institute in 1985. That same year, she married her husband, Darren Williams. Moving back to California in 1987, she became an adored worship leader with a wonderful community of friends. She was sent back to Homer […]
Updated with today’s (September 16) Las Vegas Review-Journal introductory article, but mostly because I couldn’t resist the above fantastic cartoon of Ramirez arriving in Las Vegas.“It’s good that, naturally, I’m an evil, demented individual,” Ramirez jokes. We think. “That helps — having a twisted sense of humor.” As such, Ramirez tends to provoke laughter and […]
Today’s enlightened column comes from a former publisher and editor at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune.From the piece:One of my fondest memories as a child is flopping down on the living room rug with my sisters, the Sunday newspaper spread out in front of us as our father read the color comics out loud. Sometimes […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958.I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company housing […]
Publishing juggernaut Dav Pilkey has hit another great height. His “Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas” is the No. 1 book on all of Nielsen’s Bookscan this week — selling more than 135,000 units. Bookscan claims it represents 85% of the U.S. retail market. (including Amazon).Pilkey beat out such publishing luminaries as: Danielle Steele, James […]
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then…Now we’re back where we started Here we go round again* And so begins a 100 year retrospective.Jim Scancarelli starts looking back at a hundred years of Gasoline Alley comic strips. The middle panel of today’s (September 13, 2018) strip is Jim’s edited look at a detail of the […]
The Buckets’ cartoonist Greg Cravens appeared on WREG-TV in Memphis this morning in advance of his Special Cartooning Class he’ll be running this Sunday (Sept. 16th). Visit Greg’s Facebook page for more info on the class.Watch him on the WREG video here.
The first week of the National Football League‘s 2018 season had some bad news.The Pittsburgh Steelers’ pathetic performance against rival Cleveland Browns, the Dallas Cowboys‘ continuing inability to score more than 20 points, every new NFL coach losing the first game of the season…and then there was really bad news.New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady […]
Editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich, Mike Ramirez and Gary Varvel will all be recipients of the 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award. The award is given by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and past winners have included author Ron Chernow and Senator Richard Luger. The three cartoonists will receive the award at an event at The Conrad Indianapolis hotel […]
“Over the Hedge” writer and “Odd Squad” author Mike Fry’s new book has a favorable review over at Kirkus Reviews. “Bobby Mendoza Saves the World Again” is available on September 18th and is a sequel to his 2015 book, “The Naughty List.”From the Kirkus site:“… the brevity, pacing, and humor are likely to appeal to reluctant […]
The Small Press Exposition (SPX) is this weekend and the organizers are watching the hurricane, but they’re cautiously optimistic thus far.From their site: Thankfully Hurricane Florence is expected to have little impact on the DC area. The weekend weather looks mild, with a bit of rain. We’ll keep you posted of any change to these predictions.SPX […]