KC Business magazine has named Andrews McMeel (parent company of Universal Uclick) the coolest office in Kansas City. They have a great write-up with lots of photos. Unfortunately, you have to read it through a magazine reader site. Here’s the link. Skip to page 18.
Dick Ayers, one of the “giants of the Marvel Age of Comics”, has passed at the age of 90. Michael Cavna has a great report on his life:DICK AYERS liked to laugh at the idea of a Marvel ?Bullpen? ? that would-be physical collective of cartoonists that, readers were led to imagine, happily churned out […]
I have in my hot little hands a copy of Richard Thompson’s The Complete Cul de Sac. Let me just get the negative stuff out of the way up front.Looking at this box set, I can’t help but feel a bit cheated that there are only two volumes. It’s not that anyone cut corners or […]
Clay Bennett fights against the current of cartoons about the Supreme Court’s ruling that prayer before public meetings is okay.Most other commentary involves officials praying because they can’t solve various problems, which is a retreat into Will Rogers-style gov-bashing, a familiar take that will get you picked up by editors but that doesn’t advance the […]
Kenosha Festival of Cartooning organizer Anne Hambrock has announced that the National Cartoonists Society Foundation has made a generous grant to the festival which, in addition to the successful Indiegogo campaign, covers 95% of the anticipated expenses.The foundation will specifically sponsor the charity auction on September 27. Proceeds for that auction will go to the […]
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles is writing a musical comedy.From the Washington City Paper:So, even with two bands, you decided to write a musical? Why? The Lethal Bark songs just cried out to be a musical. They are storytelling songs, and a lot of them are about what an impressive variety of jerks that […]
I saw this story in a few places yesterday, but enjoyed the NPR story best. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has a new memoir about her experience as the sole caretaker for her aging parents entitled Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir.Below is the NPR audio story and here’s the written version […]
If you aren’t already reading “The Heart of Juliet Jones” over at Comics Kingdom, this would be a good time to jump aboard.The main reason to read the strip, of course, is not to actually “read” it, but to enjoy Stan Drake’s artwork. However, the stories are not bad and much of the appeal of […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley is the artist in residence this month at The Leonardo, a local contemporary museum for science & culture. There will also be an exhibit of his work on display this month.From the Trib:As an artist in residence at The Leonardo, Bagley will turn a portion of the art […]
This week’s sponsor is Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com. GagCartoons.com is an online platform where you, the friendly (or not) cartoonist can upload your thousands of gag cartoons that are unsold or gathering dust and let Greg promote, market and license them. He’ll even cut you a check for those cartoons that sell. Yes, he’s one […]
A really disconnected grouping today, so let’s start easy with Edge City, in which the grandparents have been exploring the concept of retirement communities. I can be objective about this because, though I am approaching retirement age, I won’t ever be able to afford to retire and writers don’t “retire” anyway. I came to grips some […]
If you read the comments here, you’ve seen the name of Brian Fies more than once. He’s even been a featured artist a time or two.He’s one of my best-friends-I’ve-never-met, and I kind of knew I’d known him for a long time, but the 10th anniversary of his landmark graphic memoir, “Mom’s Cancer,” made me realize […]
If the guy in Oklahoma had actually been named “Fred Botched,” I don’t think we’d be seeing the phrase “Botched execution” any more often than we have.But the debacle may indeed have finally brought the practice of killing people on purpose to the forefront, and it’s been interesting to see the near-unanimity of commentary across […]
Jumble, the word puzzle with a cartoon, by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek is now a mobile app called Just Jumble. In Jumble, players must unscramble a set of letters and solve the puzzle from clues in Jeff’s cartoon. The app is free and available for iOS devices with Android, Nook coming soon. See […]
Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has won this year’s International Editorial Cartoon Competition of the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom. Second and third place winners were Pierre Brignaud, and Rodrigo de Matos.Clay Bennett, in addition to being a nominee for this year’s NCS divisional award for editorial cartooning, was honored with Cartooning with […]