Movie crittic Roger Ebert, who has entered the New Yorker caption contest regularly since it began, has finally won. Robert Mankoff writes about the win on his blog. Roger was being a bit hyperbolic when he claimed to have entered practically all of the contests since its inception. Out of a possible two hundred and […]

Women’s Voices for Change has profiled Nina Paley and discusses her film “Sita Sings The Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Every Told.” Kicked to the curb by a beloved husband, many women would turn off the phone, grab the H”aagen-Daz and crawl under the covers. But Nina Paley channeled her own sorrow and rage into […]

I’m reminded that Eisner Award voting is now open. If I understand the criteria – voting is open to: Comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists) All nominees in any category Comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors Comics historians and educators Graphic novel librarians Owners and managers of comic book specialty […]

Pixar changed animation forever back in 1995. USA Today has posted a pretty good overview of the big six animation studios and what they’re releasing in the next couple of years. Regarding Dreamworks/Paramount: No fewer than 24 features are in various stages of production, including everything from a racing snail (Turbo) to a full-length film […]

I broke the news last week that Gary Varvel would be this year’s Robert F. Kennedy award for editorial cartooning and now it is official. The award is given to journalists to recognize their work on human rights, social justice, and the power of individuals to make a difference. Varvel’s 11-part series, “The Path of […]

Bill Watterson came out of retirement – albeit briefly – to submit a oil painting to Richard Thompson’s Team Cul de Sac effort to raise money for a cure for Parkinson Disease. As Richard tells it on his blog… So I was floored when I got a call yesterday from Chris [Sparks] saying that Caty […]

Oh Brother! co-creators Jay Stephens and Bob Weber, Jr.s ran a contest entitled, “Is Your Kid A Character?” to find a child who according to their parent’s account should be in a comic. The winner is drawn into a Oh Brother! panel (yesterday). The contest was judged by a panel of mommy bloggers. The winner, […]

You knew that there are only a handful of voice actors behind the myriad of Simpson’s characters, right? But did you know who voices which character? Hector Cortez, over at the Animation Blog, has posted an infochart on which voice talent is behind the various characters and towns peoples. Check out his blog for a […]

Daryl Cagle has written an interesting post about the perceived value of editorial cartoons on the web. With the poor performance of their artist-name cartoons page, there was no way I could convince the Yahoo News people that editorial cartoons had value ? even with the popularity of our topical cartoon content on Cagle.com. Unfortunately, […]

Famed MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones will have his own comic book entitled, “Sergio Aragones Funnies.” Robot6 describes the comic as, “an assortment of autobiographical anecdotes, perplexing puzzles, slap-happy short stories, as well as Sergio’s unique and hilarious pantomimes and gags.” Bongo Comics is Matt Groening’s comic line and Serio has been contributing to Bongo […]

1982 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent will be the focus of a new exhibit at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in Austin, TX. Ben was the editorial cartoonist for Austin American Statesman for 35 years. The exhibit, entitled Always Hitting a Nerve: Editorial Cartoons by Ben Sargent, contains original art from […]

Anton Emdin, one of this year’s NCS nominees in the Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has posted a tutorial on inking with a brush. Inking is fun! There’s something intoxicating and slightly scary about laying down permanent ink over a sketch you may have spent hours on. When I was starting out I often felt that […]

Yesterday Mike Keefe won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. I wanted to write a round-up of some of the loose ends regarding the Pulitzer selection that wasn’t available when I posted the announcement. From Mike’s editor we have a congratulatory statement accounting Mike’s longevity in the field: “This is fabulous for Mike Keefe,” said […]

Kurt Westergaard, who penned the most infamous Mohammed cartoon depicting the prophet with a bomb on his head instead of a turban, will stand trial next week in the Jordanian capital of Amman. The summons was filed in 2008 with charges of “crimes of blasphemy” by 30 independent newspapers, websites and radio stations in Jordan. […]

From the New Yorker: Kais al-Hilali, a thirty-four-year-old Libyan cartoonist, was shot and killed late last month while painting one of the political street murals for which he was locally famous. According to witnesses, he had just drawn a caricature of Muammar Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi (above) when the bullet hit. Several cartoonists […]