The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has a dizzy array of gigs lined up – some of which will take him across the world. The Economist is heading out on an international tour called “The Year in 2014.” KAL will traveling with the tour to Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai. That last stop […]
The finished 9-foot 7-inch bronze statue titled “Giddy-Up, Daddy” has finally been unveiled. The statue honors Family Circus creator Bil Keane.From The Arizona Republic: The statue came to Scottsdale by way of Paradise Valley on the second anniversary of Keane?s death, who was a resident of the town for more than 50 years, creating his […]
Well, back to the real world, but, before saying goodbye Columbus (bet they never heard that one before), some deserving leftovers that didn’t fit in the previous entries but were certainly worthy of mention and may push someone just past the balance point into deciding to come out here.And while I wonder — in the […]
You might not know that I was an editorial cartoonist for several years and developed a comic strip (two actually). When the triplets came, I put away my pen and ink and went into the corporate world for the benefit of a steady salary. I still do occasional cartoons and illustrations, but most of my […]
I told everyone to get to this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art in Columbus. With the grand opening of the Billy Ireland Library and Museum and the duly deserved praise for the library’s founder Lucy Shelton Caswell, this was the year to be there. But alas, I couldn’t be there myself and had to jealously […]
NBC Latino talks to La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz on his role as a writer on the upcoming animated television series Bordertown. The 49-year-old’s knack for delivering hard-hitting satire about the U.S. landscape is exactly what qualifies him to join the behind-the-scenes-crew of “Bordertown,” says Felix Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the […]
We are in the last three days of the campaign to support The Daily Cartoonist. If you’re reading this, it’s because you read the blog. It might be “free” to you, but it’s not free to produce. There’s the hosting costs, my time and energies – both in posting news and links and behind the […]
Sunday morning offered tours of the inner workings of the new museum, which we should begin with a little background information, starting with the namesake, Billy Ireland.William Addison Ireland was a legendary staff cartoonist at the Columbus Dispatch, where he worked for his entire career, from 1898 to 1935, becoming a local celebrity and hiring […]
The idea of blogging on-the-spot probably works better when the spot isn’t rather content rich. I think I’ll have more to say about the cartoon arts festival after it’s over and I’m not staying up until midnight in conversations with interesting people.By which I mean this fellow Eddie Campbell, for instance, who currently lives in […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University kicked off its triennial festival of cartoon arts Friday with a ribbon cutting at the new facility which should be on any cartoon fan’s travel plans. Columbus isn’t a place you’re likely to end up by happenstance, but it’s handy to a lot […]
Comic Riffs Michael Cavna was a guest on the set of the filming of Garry Trudeau’s Alpha House and talks to Garry. Even then, Trudeau had reservations early this year about how Amazon would decide which projects would be chosen for development: The studio let the public watch and vote. “Garry was still skeptical about […]
Tom Richmond joins several other big name artists on a new educational online art school called Taught By A Pro. The other artists include Ruben Aquino, Tom Bancroft, Tony Bancroft, Terry Dodson, Michel Gagné and John Pomeroy.They have three courses up right now. Courses are reasonably priced at $10. Taught By A Pro from Taught […]
Last month news broke that Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne was being reassigned as an editorial page writer and no longer a staff cartoonist. According to Deadline Detroit, Henry also being tasked with the paper’s auto critic.Here’s a snippet from the announcement by Business Editor Joanna Firestone (which if you read the whole thing […]
Gonna look today at a couple of books that will be part of my holiday shopping, starting with this inspiring combination of nutritional musings and cartoons about food.”Eat Drink Vote” is a collaboration between nutritionist Marion Nestle and about 40 cartoonists under the aegis of the Cartoonist Group, with more than 250 cartoons illustrating her […]
Thanks to the generosity of Susie MacNelly, a lucky donor to the Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign will receive an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe comic strip. The publication date is March 3, 1989 and the topic of the strip is timeless. If you’re a fan of Jeff’s (who isn’t?), this would be a great addition […]