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Who drew that Draw Something Part 2

Congratulations to Darryl Heine who guessed the first one. Here’s the second Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

Who drew that Draw Something Part I

Here we go with the first Draw Something. The above drawing was drawn by one of the following: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Objective:Guess the word the artist is trying to communicate using the letters provided below the drawing.Guess the artist who drew the drawing.Enter your guesses in the comments.

Introducing Guess that Draw Something

As I mentioned earlier, Draw Something is a new app that has become quite popular – one of the most played apps in the iTunes App Store (there is an Android version). Think of it as Pictionary with a friend on a phone (or an iPad).I asked a few notable cartoonists to play the game […]

CSotD: What did you learn at work today?

Today’s Pajama Diaries – timed for “Take Your Son or Daughter or Other Underaged Dependent To Work Day” — brought a smile, coming as it did after a sourball article on the topic, which I read yesterday but now can’t find because it had been linked on Facebook, which means it has drifted away into the […]

AAEC Convention dates set for September 13-15

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year on September 13–15. This year’s convention will follow a somewhat different format than in the past. Thursday and Friday will center on “#!&% CARTOONS: A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon.” The festival will feature “chalk talk” presentations by various […]

Swiss cartoonist wins Thomas Nast Award

The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws for the Geneva daily Le Temps and Zurich paper the NZZ am Sonntag. According to World Radio Switzerland, this is the first time a non-American has received the award.

Who drew that Draw Something?

Starting tomorrow, I’m kicking off a game here on The Daily Cartoonist. I’m sure many of you have heard of the app Draw Something (free and paid versions of iPad/iPhone and Android devices). Think of it as Pictionary on your phone with a friend. According to one source it took AOL nine years to acquire […]

NYT: The sports cartoon is dying

Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. […]

CSotD: Two new strips by old hands

ND Mazin is a well-established cartoonist in South Africa but new to me and possibly new to you. However, he is just launching a new version of an old strip, Azaniamania, which makes it a good time to jump on and see where it’s going. (This is one time when clicking on the strip to […]

Axe Cop coming to Fox Network

The webcomic Axe Cop has been picked up by the Fox Network for their Saturday Late Night programming. The network has ordered six 15-minute installments. From Variety: Weidenfeld, a former Adult Swim exec, had his eye on “Axe Cop” from the time he started scouting properties for Animation Domination HD earlier this year. The segs […]

Matt Wuerker fires back: Memes don’t deserve Pulitzers

Last week I linked to an article on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo who argued that the Pulitzer Prize should be opened up to other graphical commentary – such as memes, infographics, etc. mostly because he felt single panel editorial cartoons are, “an increasingly timeworn form. Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely […]

Dan Collins releases eBook for iPad and Kindle

Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell by Dan CollinsDan Collins, perhaps best known for his cartoons in Hustler magazine, has created an eBook and is releasing them in both through iBookstore (iPad) and Amazon (Kindle) . The book is entitled, “Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell” and contains 100+ pages of […]

CSotD: Yeah, now pulitzer the other one

Today, Joe Martin’s Willie & Ethel delivers an unintentional spot-on response to Slate’s … um … let me look it up … “Farhad Manjoo.”I’ve been a fan of Willie and Ethel for decades. I never heard of Farhad Manjoo until he wrote a commentary in Slate condemning the Pulitzer Prize committee for awarding a prize […]

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