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 […]
“I have gotten more liberal over time, due to circumstances,” [Nick] said. “And the country has gotten more conservative as I have gotten more liberal. ” Now, he admittedly takes on the opposition and said any good cartoonist would do the same. “I am an opinion journalist,” he said. “Editorial cartooning is opinion journalism. I […]
Bumped up as a reminder to all you animators out there.Only 6 days to get your short video animation in! You could win $25,000! No Purch Nec. See Rules for details. Enter now!original May 29, 2018 post:GoComics has sent out an email today announcing the start of their short animation contest.From the email:Your opportunity to […]
The Eisner Awards were presented Friday June20th at the San Diego Comic Con. Yes, they are mostly about comic books, which I don’t cover much here, but there are some comic strip and cartooning categories that caught my eye. (Winners listed in bold type) BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS (UP TO AGE 8) Adele in Sand […]
On the occasion of a new exhibition of Saul Steinberg’s drawings, Patterson Sims, the managing director of the Saul Steinberg Foundation, spoke with The New Yorker’s art editor, Françoise Mouly, and her husband, the graphic artist and writer Art Spiegelman. “The View of the World from 9th Avenue” image via Conde Nast Françoise:I was somewhat […]
So yesterday’s debacle included a crash that lost two hours of work and then, when I started up again, some second wave of technical gremlins that brought things to a quick exit because I had a meeting to get to.”Gremlins,” that is, not to be confused with “Femlins,” one of whom appears in Andy Marlette’s […]
Bizarro got a laff the other day, but then it became strikingly relevant as I hit the road and, as I went through airports realized how many people have, indeed, been transformed into Bros.It’s a sort of uniform, and it goes beyond the backwards ball cap and goatee. Wayno has captured it quite well, in […]
Alex Deuben interviews Dana Simpson.This spring saw the publication of a new collection of strips, Unicorn of Many Hats, and Today I’ll Be a Unicorn, Simpson’s first board book. In August Andrews McMeel is publishing a collection of some of Simpson’s Ozy and Millie comics, and this fall will see the publication of a second […]
Shocking. Offensive. Truthful. These are all words that have been used to describe the work of controversial cartoonist Mr. Fish – aka Dwayne Booth.I think outrageous is also applicable, because Fish seems to be outraged at the state of our country. And he explains why in this July 19, 2018 Yahoo Unfiltered article and video.A […]
First I need to add to that San Diego Comic Con list of the other day.I overlooked the Spotlight on Macanuda: Introducing the World of Liniers for Sunday July 22. One of Latin America’s most acclaimed cartoonists, Liniers (Eisner Award nominee and Comic-Con special guest), talks about his popular Argentinian daily strip Macanudo, which begins […]
Kevin Siers proves that you can breathe life into any tired trope if you are clever and the facts align.The Pinocchio gag may, like Hitler references, have been rolled out too early and used too often, beaten into cliche before we realized how much we were going to need it. Or maybe it’s just that […]