The Overseas Press Club has announced this year’s winners. The Thomas Nast Award for editorial cartooning went to Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher of The Economist and Baltimore Sun. The judges wrote:In a strong year for political cartoons, Kevin Kallaugher?s work stood out for its clarity, visual élan and mordant humor. From the war in Syria to […]
Gil Roth talks to Ohio State?s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Caitiln McGurk who curated “The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective”You can listen to the podcast here.Caitiln McGurk, fresh off of curating her first exhibition at Ohio State?s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Irresistible Force Meets the […]
This Saturday night will be a worldwide viewing and live-tweeting of the documentary “Stripped“. Anyone who has the film and wants to participate need to queue up the film and hit play at 7:00 pm PST and then jump over Twitter (computer, tablet, phone) and share your thoughts. Using the hashtag #strippedfilm you can see […]
Let’s start today with Sheldon, because I’m gonna be a cranky old man for most of the post, so why not begin with an overtly cranky-old-man gag?I resisted GPS for awhile not because I’m a cranky old man but because I didn’t feel any need for it. When I first moved to New Hampshire, my […]
Heritage Auction has a third Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes original for auction. The current auction runs through May 15 with a current bidding at $16,000 for the strip that ran May 9, 1987. The two previous Calvin and Hobbes original strips to go up for auction fetched a combined $268,875 ($203,150 for a Sunday […]
Daryl Cagle profiles Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart and his book about the sport of short track racing.Most readers of Cagle.com will instantly recognize the cartoons of Bob Englehart, the award-winning cartoonist of the Hartford Courant. What you many not know is Bob is also a talented writer, and just released a new book about […]
Matt Bors on the guy who peed in the reservoir and the town that drained it, a story that gets funnier and funnier the more it goes on.The bottom line on all this is that people believe the science that bolsters their opinions and are blind to the science that doesn’t, and even independent, free-thinking […]
From Allgov:The carnage of layoffs resulting from the Internet age has been quite gruesome for journalism employment, with the U.S. having lost 30% of its paid media workers. According to the Pew Research Journalism Project, print publications facing dwindling subscription rates laid off 17,000 reporters and editors from 2006 to 2012. The reduction saw the […]
… so that we may bring you this important message about taste and sensitivity About six years ago, I interviewed a fellow in Rangeley, Maine, who had climbed Kilimanjaro, a feat that involves significant conditioning but no technical climbing and is popular among those who can afford to do it. He had sold his pharmacy to […]
Last weekend, here in my neck of the woods, was the Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience (FanX) – a sister Con to the Comic Con that started last summer. It boasted over 100,000 attendees. The event was more geared toward connecting fans with entertainment celebrities, but it was still a comic con. Tickets go on […]
A great post by Wes Molebash:Michael Jantze left that comment on my Instagram, and I?ve been chewing on it for awhile. I like looking at other artists? sketchbooks online, and I tend to get intimidated by them. To me, sketchbooks are utilitarian. Sometimes I put some finished art in there, but – for the most […]
David Silverman, who directed The Simpson’s Movie and co-directed Monsters Inc., is working on a live-action/animated hybrid feature film of the Pink Panther character. Since the Pink Panther was introduced in 1963, most of the movies have been live-action films centered on Inspector Clouseau with references to a pink diamond nicknamed “The Pink Panther”. Most […]
Maybe we’re making too much of this thing, but it’s worth noting that the majority of conservative commentators seem to be either ignoring or mocking Clive Bundy. Granted, Steve Benson is hardly a conservative, but if this the only style of cartooning on the topic that seems to be out there, then ol’ Clive hasn’t […]
Let’s start with this Garrincha cartoon. I’ve said before that I’m more attuned to the story-telling American style of political cartooning rather than the more metaphorical international style, but this is a situation in which the two blend rather seamlessly. Moreover, I like the cartoon for what Gustavo Rodriguez is and what his cartoon isn’t. […]
R Stevens was profiled in Split Sider about his comic Diesel Sweeties and his latest book Bacon Is a Vegetable, Coffee Is a Vitamin TP.You?ve been doing this for years and made thousands of comics. What?s the appeal of collecting some of them into themed books? My work is way too scattered and unplanned to […]