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 […]
Michael Cavna talks to La La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz on his involvement on the newly announced Fox animated show Bordertown. “The writers’ room is actually pretty diverse, and we are focused on doing political and social satire with some meaning,” says Alcaraz, a California native of Mexican American descent. He is a vocal commentator […]
From Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: Any “Calvin and Hobbes” fan will enjoy watching Schroeder’s film, which is more a love letter to the strip and its publicity-shy creator than anything else. “Dear Mr. Watterson” is a work of charming reportorial energy, in which Schroeder (who wrote, directed and edited the movie) interviews many prominent fans and […]
A friendly reminder – today at noon (Mountain standard time), I will be creating a perk for an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe for a donation of $1,000 to my Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. If $1000 is too steep for you, you can gamble and wait a day. If nobody claims it, I’ll repost it […]
I really like today’s Deflocked for no particular reason except that it’s cynical and funny and true, despite having not quite plugged all the gaps.That is, I suspect some readers would argue that Thanksgiving also celebrates our bloodthirsty need to possess things, but I’d say the charge, while certainly not baseless, is a bit misplaced. Let’s […]
Today kicks off the last week of the Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. I can’t say how thankful I am for the generosity of those who donated to the campaign and those who provided the perks/incentives to the donors. Thank you, thank you!I’m excited to announce that Mark Parisi is donating two of his Off […]