Arkansas editorial cartoonist Jon Kennedy has passed away at the age of 96. His obituary hints at the longevity of his career:Jon B. Kennedy, 96, of North Little Rock passed away Friday, October 10th. Born in Springfield, Missouri on August 19, 1918 to parents , Brownlow and Ida Kennedy , he started his career as […]
Just released: Tom Gammill’s opening number for the 2014 Reuben Awards:Always great.
An Malaysian Appeals Court has lifted a ban on books by editorial cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar). Zunar’s books were seized during an arrest in 2012. The cartoonist was charged with sedition. From the Malaysian Insider:“With respect, this is a case where the law of sedition is being used as a convenient peg to […]
Looks like LEGO Movie 2 is being pushed back in order to make LEGO Batman. From Hollywood Reporter:Chris McKay, the animation supervisor on Lego Movie, was initially set to direct that project’s sequel. However, the movie is being pushed back and McKay is now helming the Lego Batman movie, which is being written by author-screenwriter […]
Last August, Ed Stein announced he was ending his long-running strip Freshly Squeezed (which was an extension of Denver Square) and hinted that he was gearing up for another project. Yesterday he posted news that the new project was a webcomic.From Ed:In the next few weeks (I hope) I?ll launch the first installments of Sleeper […]
Bucknell University has posted a profile of Close to Home creator John McPherson who graduated from the university in 1983.From Bucknell:The genesis of Close to Home, McPherson said, began during his time at Bucknell, where he indulged his creativity with a degree in English while satisfying his practical side by studying mechanical engineering. He drew […]
Great article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Charles Schulz Museum. The Schulz Museum has had about 100 unique exhibitions since then, from an early presentation of Japanese quilts with Peanuts themes to the recent self-explanatory ?Heartbreak? in Peanuts gallery. ?Peanuts in Wonderland,? which includes the comic strip?s tributes to Lewis Carroll?s classic, is […]
I’ve been a fan of ProCreate for a couple of years now. By far the best drawing app on iOS. And just to put your mind at ease, I don’t get any kickbacks for recommending the app. I’m just a fan. Remember that viral video of someone drawing Morgan Freeman that created debate whether it […]
Washington Post Comics Riff blogger Michael Cavna posts a two part “illustrated interview” with director Richard Linklater believed to be the first illustrated interview at the Post.Check out parts 1 and part 2.
Leo Traub writes:Newspaper comic strips have an artistic quaintness that endears them instantly to the reader. Despite dropping newspaper sales, the magic of ink on paper doesn?t fade over time. Nothing compares to hand-drawn comics, with their unique imperfections and nonuniform lettering. While still in print, Bill Watterson?s Calvin and Hobbes series ? my personal […]
For those of you interested in comic history, make sure you check out this new book by Michael Kahn and Rich West called Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be – a coffee table book about the political satire and cartoon magazine “Puck” that was published between 1871 until 1918.Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson pens […]
Boing Boing has published an article by Monte Beauchamp who has identified 16 cartoonists he argues were the early trend setters or trail blazers by which others followed. He includes: Walt Disney, Winsor McCay, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Osamu Tezuka, Charles Schulz, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Hergé, Hugh Hefner, Jack Kirby, Al Hirschfeld, Rodolphe […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba has reached the 25 year milestone with The World-Herald – his local paper where he grew up. Michael Kelly, the paper’s columnist wrote a profile on him:Michael: On the day I checked in, the 53-year-old Koterba?s bicycle was parked outside his seventh-floor cubicle at the downtown Omaha World-Herald Building. A few […]
Last week, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts turned 64. TIME magazine ran two stories about Peanuts: See How Peanuts Addressed Feminism, Nuclear War and More and Why Peanuts Endures: ?The Football is Always Pulled Away?From TIME Magazine: Despite their wholesome, all-American reputation, Charlie Brown and his friends embody an amount of malaise better associated with French existentialists. […]
Last week’s cartoon by Jerry Holbert placed the cartoonist in an awkward position of either admitting he created a cartoon with an historically racist reference OR plead ignorance of the connection between watermelon and African-Americans such as President Obama. Jerry went with ignorance. But that wasn’t credible to a lot of people. Here’s the cartoon […]