Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has taken home two awards this month. She was named the winner of the 15th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition. The topic this year was “Press Freedom has a value, but also a price.” I don’t know how many cartoons were in her portfolio, but the […]
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist and AAEC President Jack Ohman has posted the first of four in an illustrated series about his experience taking care of his aging father. The series runs on PBS.org.
From the New York Times:The French cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo’s cover picture of the Prophet Mohammad after the Islamist killings at the satirical weekly in January, has said he will no longer draw the Prophet. “He no longer interests me,” he told Les Inrockuptibles in an interview published on its website on Wednesday. […]
Fun Home, the Off-Broadway adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Off biographical graphic novel, has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards.From CBS News:“An American in Paris” and “Fun Home” topped this year’s Tony Awards nominees with 12 nods each, followed by “Something Rotten!” with 10 and “The King and I” with nine. The best musical nominees “Fun […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Don’t get to say the word “legendary” all that often, but truly legendary animator Bill Plympton joins me to talk about his latest film, “Revengeance,” that he’s doing with animator […]
If found these t-shirt designs through the Peanuts Studio blog. Threads, a t-shirt printing company, has teamed up with the Peanuts studio to run a Peanuts design challenge for the best design. You can vote for the best design over on Threadless. There’s a couple of designs I’d like to purchase for myself.Here’s Peanuts Creative […]
From the miracle of Youtube – a 1993 interview with the great Herblock.
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation has announced that this year’s recipient of the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is Derek Desierto of Sheridan College in Ontario where he studies animation. Derek will receive a $5,000 scholarship and a trip to The National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend in Washington DC in May.From the NCSF:??Derek was […]
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists Signe Wilkinson and Ann Telnaes will speak at a panel at the Library of Congress this Thursday on the topic of “Cartooning in a Charlie Hebdo World”.Wilkinson and Telnaes will address several topics that currently affect a political cartoonist?s approach to his or her work. The panel will be moderated […]
If you’ve drawn the Prophet Muhammad, you might soon be targeted by Islamic Jihadis. Or at least that’s the conclusion ForeignPolicy.com reports after two Jihadi Twitter users called for a Charlie Hebdo style attack on cartoonists in the U.S. and Australia (subscription required). One of the Jihadis targeted a specific Aussie, Larry Pickering, who is […]
From The New York Times:The government?s plan was simple enough: Rid Moscow of swastikas or any other symbol of Nazism before Victory Day, the celebration of the Soviet Union?s defeat of Germany and the most important political holiday in Russia. But in the frenzy to comply, bookstores aiming to please the censor found an unlikely […]
The 2015-16 Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning fundraising has started. Anne Morse Hambrock, the festival founder, has a great event lined up. Mark Tatulli of Lio, Heart of the City, Desmond Puckett Bill Morrison ? Art Director: Futurama, Co-Founder of Bongo Comics, Simpsons and Disney Illustrator, Roswell Little Green Man Jan Eliot – Stone Soup Darrin […]
Photo © NBC Doonesbury and Alpha House creator Garry Trudeau was featured on yesterday’s Meet the Press to discuss his comments made regarding the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. Garry’s speech has been interpreted as opining that the French cartoonists brought the terrorist attack upon themselves because they didn’t censor themselves when it comes to Islam.Garry and […]
Here’s the official trailer for Chad Carpenter’s Moose: The Movie. It debuted in Alaska last night. I didn’t realize Tom Gammill starred in it. You can read the review at the Alaska Dispatch News.
On Monday, Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. By Thursday, Mayor Byron Brown had declared April 23rd “Adam Zyglis Day in the city of Buffalo.”And who says government moves slowly?