Tom Tomorrow on the continued predominance of the “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” school of economic policy.For those too young to remember, that phrase comes from a point in the Vietnam War when it was decided to move peasants from villages in vulnerable rural areas to brand new villages […]
Guardian reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan, who has provided the most details on the Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes for depicting a local Prime Minister in a soccer jersey, is now reporting that the sentence against cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye will most likely be quashed after the MP withdrew his complaint after international outcry.From the Guardian:In […]
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Matt Davies is taking a new set of critics – children. He has a picture book due out next spring entitled Ben Rides On. The book is about a boy and his love for his bike, but when a bully takes it away the boy must find a way to […]
The Herblock Award was last week in which Matt Bors was honored for his editorial cartooning. Below is his speech.Michael Cavna attended and has posted a write-up.
Last week I posted news that an editorial cartoon by Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett enraged University of Kentucky for criticizing coach John Calipari for ending UK’s annual series with Indiana.Joel describes returning from Washington DC where he helped the Cartoonists Rights Network committee to select a worthy Courage in Cartooning Award for a cartoonist […]
This is a page from “Congo 50,” a graphic novel produced by a group of Congolese artists to mark the nation’s 50th anniversary.You can read the first chapter here, plus get an insight into the purpose and process. I wish the pages had been done in a higher resolution or larger size, but I was […]
I always enjoy Mark Anderson’s videos. This one is how he does shading with Prismacolor cool grey markers. Check out his blog too for a few more interesting tidbits on the paper he uses and the size that he draws (spoiler!: small).
At his LATimes blog, David Horsey asks, regardless of how you feel about which one should run the country, which one would you have rather known in high school?I’m less willing to separate the issues. The child most assuredly is father of the man.And it can work both ways: Some bullies, in the process of […]
My life, as drawn by Sandra Bell-Lundy in today’s “Between Friends.”And it’s worse than this.The best part of telecommuting is that you can sit at your computer all day in your sweats. And, since everyone who knows your work is hundreds of miles away, if you need to go out and buy groceries, you don’t […]
The New York Times tech section highlights a popular community created comics on Reddit called Rage Comics.In that way, rage comics are not like the average viral YouTube video. They are more like a Bob Newhart sketch: the laughs come not from replaying the public foolishness of some stranger, but from watching the awkward reaction […]
A near-mint first edition of a Batman comic book has sold for $850,000 in a private transaction through Heritage Auction. The edition was first printed in 1940. The new owners are only disclosed as an “investor partnership.”
Knoxville News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel, will be honored next week at a luncheon hosted the by Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy for his “long and illustrious career.” The event is being sponsored by Senator Baker and his wife, Senator Nancy Kassebaum.
Amid all this talk about same-sex marriage, there’s still a lot of regular-old-marriage out there to be mined for humor, or maybe for contemplation, and two of the better storytelling strips out there are doing wedding arcs at the moment.Or maybe not.Arlo and Janis is more of a “you got that right” strip than a […]
Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has announced they are awarding their 2012 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award to Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, from India. CNRI is dedicated to defending the human rights of cartoonists who are threatened due to their work. Ali gained international notoriety after Syrian government thugs tried to silence […]
Kevin Rechin, son of Crock co-creator Bill Rechin, had decided to retire his father’s strip which he took over shortly before his father passed away of esophageal cancer last year. A quote from Kevin in The Free Lance-Star:“It’s very hard,” he said. “I still go back and forth. In my gut, I want to keep […]