The National Cartoonist Society has announced the 2014 Division Awards aka Silver Reubens (or tongue in cheek the “Steckleys”).The winners will be announced during the annual NCS Reuben Awards dinner on May 23rd. This year’s Reuben Awards will be held in Washington D.C.Congratulations to the nominees.EDITORIAL CARTOONS Clay Bennett Michael Ramirez Jen Sorensen NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION […]
Being April Fool’s day, Comics Kingdom has wrangled several cartoonists into posting a few words about their best cartoon ever.Here’s Mort Walker:Back in the early days of Beetle Bailey, the style and theme of the strip was very different. The characters looked less stylized and more “realistic,” so to speak, and Miss Buxley’s romance with […]
Whoopee cushions and water balloons are classics, of course, but our comic jokesters constantly take pranking to new heights. So, whether you need ideas for you own April Fool?s prank or you just like to live vicariously through our many pranksters, you know where to find inspiration and laughter on April first. To help you […]
Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, has been informed by his attorney that he will be charged with sedition this Friday.Zunar’s response:“I would like to reiterate that the use of Sedition Act will not silence me. I will keep exposing the corruptions and wrong-doings of the BN government. “The ‘Fight Through Cartoons’ will carry […]
Today marks the launch Dana Simposon’s comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn through Universal Uclick. The strip is enjoying a popular launch with over 100 publications. Dana was winner of the Amazon.com and Andrews McMeel Publishing Comic Strip Superstar contest in 2009 with the comic strip Girl. The prize for that contest was a book […]
With permission, I’m passing along information about our good friend and great cartoonist/illustrator Stacy Curtis. Last Tuesday, Stacy, through his wife, posted news that he had just spent six days in the hospital after suffering a stroke. While he has since gained “pretty much everything back”, his vision has been lost. Since then, he tells […]
Rick Stomoski’s Soups To Nutz turns 15 today. GoComics is giving away prints of the first strip. Head over to enter. Congratulations to Rick.
The Incredibles was one of my fav Pixar films. Ten years after the first, the word is the sequel is in development. CinamaBlend has details what we do know and what we don’t about the film. At this time, The Incredibles 2 is evidently developing without an official director attached, but fans can be assured […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo has a fascinating find:Picture this. A monk. A monk in a high tower. In the monk?s hand is a writing instrument that today would be found behind glass in a museum. What?s this lonesome scribe writing? There?s parchment on the unevenly carved desk in front of him, and on it […]
Do you have that itch to create a 3D animation of one of your creations, but don’t want to drop $500 on Pixar’s Renderman? This week Pixar released a free version of Renderman for non-commercial use.From their website:RenderMan is now free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The non-commercial version […]
The US is dropping an illustration/cartoon on the city of Raqqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State, to discourage new recruits (see cartoon above). From USA Today: WASHINGTON ? The Pentagon has launched a propaganda program in Syria aimed at creating fissures among Islamic State fighters by dropping 60,000 leaflets at the center of […]
From The Daily News:Two cartoonists for the popular satirical weekly Penguen have been jailed to 11 months in prison, over a satirical piece on free speech in which they were convicted of including a hidden gesture ?insulting? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Cartoonists Bahad?r Baruter and Özer Aydo?an were sued for the Aug. 21, 2014, […]
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A Nashville entrepreneur is trying to launch a weekly 6-page comic page delivered via mail.From the press release: Seeking to preserve a uniquely American art form, Nashville based media entrepreneur Logan Sekulow announced the launch of Laugh-O-Gram?, a weekly, family friendly comic strip only newspaper delivered by mail. Acknowledging the importance of grassroots support, Sekulow […]
Daryl Cagle announced that former Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Detroit Free-Press editorial cartoonist Bill Day has taken a full-time position with the Florida web site FloridaPolitics.com.Daryl writes: I was please to learn that my talented, cartoonist buddy, Bill Day, just got a full time job as an editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com. New jobs for editorial […]