Yesterday I posted news that Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye had been sentenced to 25 lashings for depicting a local official in a football (soccer to us Yankees) jersey. Information about the case has been limited, but The Guardian has picked up the story and provides a bit more context and detail. Doesn’t change much, though.From […]
The National Cartoonist Society Foundation has offered to match all new donations to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Kickstarter effort until it reaches its $10,000 goal. As of this writing, the festival has raised nearly $5,000 which means that it will need to raise at least $2,500 in the next 13 days in order to […]
From The Quad blog at The New York Times:“You can draw all the cartoons you want about things like the global plight of women and it’s this kind of thing that gets people going,” Pett said in a telephone interview Tuesday. To the Kentucky faithful, Pett is raining on their championship parade by criticizing Calipari. […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green. Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie […]
Francoise Mouly, art editor at the New Yorker and editor/compiler of the new book, Blown Covers, featuring art that never made the cover, has posted this strip, a 1993 collaboration between her husband, Art Spiegelman, and Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday.You can click on the picture for a larger version, and then click here to […]
Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial cartoon in the Americas. It was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette as a rallying cry unity among the colonies.May the profession continue for many more years and cartoons with labels many more years beyond that.
Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh has been sentenced to 25 lashings after drawing an Iranian parliament member in a football jersey. The cartoon appeared in the magazine Nameye Amir.While I’m not 100% certain, the image left might be the offending image.
Sad, sad day. Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, has passed away at the age of 83. From The New York Times:In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American children’s literature, in which young heroes and heroines were typically well […]
Non Sequitur, with an observation on the state of reality television and, thus, on the state of reality.”Reality television” has always been somewhat artificial, simply because editors and producers make decisions on what you’re going to see. This can range from something as innocent as cutting out the boring parts to the common-but-misleading policy of […]
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood:Audio Excerpt:JONATHAN MAHOOD: “With newspaper comics, it’s got to be easy for the reader to get on board. I got my first iPod and I was sitting outside with my dog. I was thinking about how these two things follow me around. I […]
Ken Fisher (AKA Ruben Bolling) has announced that he’s created a monetizing effort called the “Inner Hive” to fans of his comic Tom the Dancing Bug.Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. Those […]
From Yahoo Movies:Avengers is now positioned to reach $1 billion in global grosses in a much-needed win for Disney, which posted a $200 million loss after John Carter cratered at the box office earlier this year. It’s also a validation of Marvel’s strategy to build a franchise by turning out single titles — Iron Man, […]
On the heels of their second annual “So You Want to Be a Cartoonist” contest earlier this spring, The Cartoonists Studio will launch two politically themed contests in June and August with winners of both contests announced the day before this year’s presidential election.More details will be posted at a later date, but here’s what […]
Two weeks or so ago, NPR had a feature on the morning show about some fellow who sells custom poetry the way caricature artists sell caricatures. He sits at some farmers market/craft fair place and people give him a few bucks whereupon he takes their names and a random fact or two about them and […]
One of the recurring gags in the underestimated surrealist comedy, “Green Acres,” was that, just as an apparent need arose, hustler and conman Mr. Haney would appear on the doorstep with a solution.As noted in today’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, Mr. Haney’s truck has gone high tech, thanks to Google and our willingness […]