The North Shore News out of North Vancouver, B.C., has a fun story about Lynn Johnston’s work with a young art student.From the story:“But the trouble is it’s so much fun to just draw the characters because there’s a spirit in you that is the character,” says Johnston. “If you are drawing a dog, you […]
Per Variety, “LaCucaracha” and editorial cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has been named the cultural consultant for Nickelodeon’s new animated series “Los Casagrandes.” The series is a spinoff of Nick’s “The Loud House” and follows the life of a 11-year-old boy with 10 sisters.Alcaraz had served in a similar role on Pixar’s Academy Award-winning “Coco.”@laloalcaraz www.gocomics.com/laloalcarazhttps://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha
Erik Pederson at the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune does a short profile of Korean-American cartoonist Dami Lee. Lee’s new book from Chronicle, “Be Everything at Once” hits the streets on August 7th.From the story:So are her parents wishing she had a more traditional career path that didn’t include cartooning?“Not really, because in Korea comics are […]
The Comics Reporter and Telesur are reporting that comic character Mafalda is being dragged into the abortion debate in her native Argentina.Mafalda cartoonist Quino has released a statement:“Images showing Mafalda wearing a blue scarf, which symbolizes opposition to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy law, are spreading. I don’t authorize it; it doesn’t represent my stance, and […]
There has been a boatload of editorial cartoons on Trump’s threat to start yet another unwinnable land war in Asia, but Matt Wuerker‘s raises the issue of whether it’s a classic blunder, an attempt to distract, or, perhaps, a blundering attempt to distract.Wuerker is going for (C) a blundering attempt to distract.(BTW, for those just discovering […]
We thought this was worth breaking out from D.D. Degg’s earlier post. In comics’ news from the National Football League, the Chicago Bears have announced that the intend to launch what they’re calling a ‘Monsters of the Midway’ comic strip. It looks and feels far more “comic book” than “comic strip” but check it out […]
“Join, or Die” is widely heralded as America’s first newspaper political cartoon.It was published in the May 9, 1754 edition of Benjamin Franklin‘s Pennsylvania Gazette.An original of that publication will be auctioned off July 26.The original May 9, 1754 “Pennsylvania Gazette” newspaper featuring Benjamin Franklin’s famous “JOIN, or DIE” cartoon will be auctioned by Nate […]
Mutts Comic Con Tribute Title PanelPatrick McDonnell‘s annual Comic Con comic strip appeared yesterday. Some may have missed his Mutts title panel tribute that is usually dropped. Above: the July 22, 2018 Mutts title panel and the inspiration from 1963. The full Mutts strip can be read at the Arcamax site. Cartoonist Learns She’s AmbidextrousLiza Donnelly […]
Brian Fies has announced that Abrams ComicArts will publish a full-color graphic novel of his true-life account of the 2017 Santa Rosa fires. Publication is slated for Spring 2019.From his Facebook post:Publishing lead times being what they are, I’m actually in the throes of deadline woes right now, with just a few weeks to wrap it […]
DC: John, your new comic with King Features, “Daddy Daze,” launched on June 17th. How did you come up with the concept? JK: I was looking for a new project and ended up reviewing some old projects for inspiration. One of those was a on-line weekly strip I did in grad school about being a first time father. They […]
NPR’s WAMU features an hour spot on editorial cartoonists.From the site:How will the industry continue to evolve amidst changing political and economic circumstances? And what do editorial cartoons capture that other media forms don’t?https://the1a.org/shows/2018-07-18/editorial-cartoons@Rob_Rogers@PatBagley@AnnTelnaes@ScottStantis@WAMU885
We’re tickled to welcome long-time newspaperman and comics’ journalist Mike Peterson to the Daily Cartoonist team. Mike has owned and operated the erudite and whimsical “Comic Strip of the Day” blog for the last eight and a half years and has a vast and passionate knowledge of the art form.Here’s Mike’s “mission statement” from the […]
Adjust your bookmark, because the blog is moving in order to become a feature on The Daily Cartoonist, a site newly re-energized with the addition of DD Degg, whom some of you will know from rec.arts.comics.strips.I hope you’ll stick with the shift. I’m going to continue to blog daily and the only major change should […]
One of the bulwarks of Comic Strip of the Day has always been the personal take and today the Buckets provides a bit of serendipity with a clueless old gaffer stumbling over the concept of social media, just at the moment CSotD shifts to the Daily Cartoonist.CSotD has been around for about eight and a half […]
My town has been replacing an outmoded sewer system, which will improve the cleanliness of the Connecticut River but has played hob with trying to get from one place to another, since it involves very large pipes under very important streets. This has given me many opportunities not only to contemplate how they could have done […]