The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is to receive their “Visionary Woman Award”. From their site:Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life. Her […]
The Smithsonian.com jumps in on the Olivia Jaimes helmed “Nancy.” From the story:The Revamped ‘Nancy’ Is the Perfect Comic Strip for 2018. The comic’s first woman artist mines her own girlhood experience to make the eternally 8-year-old, cookie-loving grouch even funnier.
Let’s start with a salute to fortuitous timing by Wiley Miller, whose Non Sequitur by, I assume, happenstance hits the comics pages while Wells Fargo’s incompetence, venality and lousy response is in the rest of the newspaper.In another bit of interesting timing, NPR has just started a series on the housing crisis with the observation […]
Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012 The California Museum, in association with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is presenting a retrospective exhibit honoring Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin.The exhibit, running August 14 – October 14, 2018, will coincide with the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, California the weekend of September […]
Dan Saad hasn’t been out of print since college. When U.S. newspaper circulation peaked at more than 60 million in the 1980s, his editorial cartoons graced the pages of The News-Herald. Three decades later, they still do.Dan’s AAEC profile says he “worked as the editorial cartoonist at the student newspaper, The South End, from 1972-1977.” […]
CommentatorsSomeone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts.The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s Yesterday’s Papers, […]
Scott McCloud released his “Understanding Comics” in 1993. Barnes & Noble has marked the anniversary with this interview.From the site:“I’d like to think that Understanding Comics helped contribute to comics’ broader acceptance by both the general public and by various institutions like libraries, museums, and universities. But guys like me are only half of the solution. We […]
Cartoonist, shampoo actor and noted Australian Jason Chatfield was recently taken to task by a group of individuals who were offended by a recent New Yorker cartoon he created.From Jason’s blog:As a rule, I never engage in social media comments sections– especially when it comes to my work. I like people to just fight among […]
I will confess to going through a burn-out phase at the moment, in which I find today’s Reality Check refreshing.All commentators, including cartoonists, go through these phases where I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly […]
Gary Varvel in the Public Square Gary Varvel is the guest on this weekend’s Story in the Public Square. Editorial cartoonists use illustration to offer a different perspective on the news and in doing so they challenge us to think in new ways. Gary Varvel brings a conservative perspective to his cartoons for the IndyStar.Story […]
The Kansas City Star is reporting on the power of good copy editors in today’s (August 5th) edition.From the story:A word in a 10-paragraph statement of the full-page ad supporting Samons was supposed to say “assets,” the newspaper’s publisher wrote in a public Facebook post Saturday morning.Instead, Samons’ ad contained this sentence: “I believe in taking care […]
Bado has coverage on his blog of an interesting auction, in which the only known copy, outside the Library of Congress, of the newspaper in which Ben Franklin’s original “Join, or Die” cartoon appeared was auctioned off for the minimum bid of $40,000, which went to $50,000 with the buyer’s premium.“Interesting,” in part because he includes […]
AwardsArt Spiegelman, on August 12, will be the recipient of the MacDowell Medal. Wikipedia: The Edward MacDowell Medal is an award which has been given since 1960 to one person annually who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture and the arts. It is given by The MacDowell Colony, the first artist residency program […]
Multiple-award nominee cartoonist Steve Conley is raising funds over at Kickstarter for his beautifully illustrated “The Middle Age.” With a few weeks left, Steve has already greatly exceeded his $5,000 goal.From the Kickstarter page:Sir Quimp of Grawlix is an older knight who is stuck with a sarcastic, cursed sword and is on an against-all-odds quest to rescue his […]
Matt Wuerker introduces our theme for the day, which is futility.The economy has grown four percent and, for all the hoo-hah, you’d think we’d developed a car that runs on plastic straws.It’s a very good number. It’s the best we’ve done in nearly four years, which is to say, we did it under Obama, too, […]