The Wall Street Journal has profiled Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Lunar). They’ve also posted a video of him talking about how he draws his cartoons. My only comment about that is, can we pass a law that prohibits video producers from using that cheesy background music? Malaysian Cartoonist Shares His Secrets.

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: One of the greatest experiences of my life was getting to go to Egypt for a month to work on a TV show for the Discovery Channel.  As a history […]

The American Society of News Editors has announced this year’s Sunshine Week will be March 15-21. They’re also asking editorial cartoonists to contribute cartoons on the topic of open and transparent government to be used in the week’s celebration. Cartoons will be used in a gallery on the Sunshine Week website as well as part […]

Scott McCloud, who is perhaps best known for his books “Understanding Comics” and “Making Comics”, is coming out with a new graphic novel called The Sculpture. The New York Times profiles his contributions to comic language as well as the new novel. There was another reason to pursue the project, too. ?It gnawed at me […]

Interesting tidbit out of The Washington Post from Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren on it was Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury that helped the streaming music service build an audience.We?ve got a lot of press coverage over the years ? in print, on screen, etc. The only press hit that materially changed our growth trajectory was Doonesbury. So we […]

Joseph Farris, who contributed over 300 cartoons to the New Yorker has passed at the age of 90.Fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin writes:Born in 1924, in Newark, NJ, Joe was a longtime Connecticut resident. In his early days he was a student of another Connecticut cartoonist, the great Richard Taylor. Joe contributed close to […]

Festival of Cartooning Director Anne Morse Hambrock announced that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation raised $10,000 last year through the auction that Anne organized. The money is being split between two children’s charities in Kenosha.We were honored to present a check for over $5,000 to the Open Wings School […]

This last weekend was the Angouleme International Comic Art Festival in France. Reports say the annual event had extra security due to the recent terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo publication last month. Last year’s Grand Prix winner, Bill Watterson, did not attend, but instead OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jenny Robb and […]

Sad news from Allan Holtz regarding the passing of Cole Johnson, a comic scholar with a vast expertise in newspaper comic strip history.One of the most endearing things about Cole was that he realized, and reveled in, the idea that being a newspaper comics expert is mystifying pointless and utterly ridiculous to 99.9% of humanity. […]

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: It’s a great pleasure to talk with Sarah Andersen of “Sarah’s Scribbles.”  Fell in love with that strip as soon as I saw it, and Lucas Turnbloom (“Imagine This”) and […]

Former Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein (who also created the comic strip Freshly Squeezed has launched his webcomic Sleeper Ave . The comic is a personal history of growing up in Waco, Texas in the 1950s. Here’s how Ed describes it:In 1953, a tornado roared through the small town I grew up in. […]

The National Cartoonists Society has announced that this year’s Society?s Silver T-Square award will be awarded to former NCS president Jeff Keane.From the NCS:The National Cartoonists Society?s Silver T-Square award is ?awarded, by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, to persons who have demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the […]

National Cartoonist Society President Tom Richmond has posted the cover art for this upcoming year’s NCS Reuben Awards weekend with caricatures of the line-up of speakers and special award winners. Family Circus cartoonist and former NCS President Jeff Keane will be the recipient of this year’s NCS ?Silver T-Square? for outstanding dedication to the organization. […]

Interesting report by NPR about New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro who submitted 610 cartoons to the New Yorker before he made his first sale.From NPR: “I went in, he looked at my stuff, I was just nervously sitting there waiting for him to say something,” Toro says. “And I remember he looked up and said, […]

Sad news from DreamWorks Animation. The LA Times reports that the animation studio has cut 500 jobs in a restructuring effort and will scale back its film production and close its studio in Redwood City.From the LA Times: The announcement is a bruising moment for Katzenberg, who once presided over one of the industry’s leading […]