Illustrator, cartoonist Edward Sorel was profiled by NY1 about his work drawing covers for prestigious magazines like The New Yorker, The Nation, Esquire, Time.To Sorel, tracing is cheating. “If you don’t trace, it’s art. If you trace, it’s illustration,” says Sorel. “For me, working direct is fine art, and tracing is commercial art. That’s the […]
Blaine, The Hamilton Spectator’s editorial cartoonist for 30 years, passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 74. He had retired from the paper in 1993. Blaine was anything but bland. He had a black belt in karate, played guitar and sang, liked wearing cowboy boots and jewellery and was remembered for driving motorcycles […]
Keith Knight with a dignified tribute to a dignified man. I never quite got how Don Cornelius, who seemed so grown-up and cool-in-the-dispassionate-sense fit in with the music he featured. But that was part of the deal, and, while it was good to bring soul to mainstream audiences, I was old enough by then to […]
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to run an original editorial cartoon in the Sunday The Week in Review starting February 26. At issue is the Times’ offer to pay $250 to the selected cartoonist, but requires all entrants to submit original, […]
The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The idea of some radioactive biological substance brings to mind Peter Parker who gained his super spider abilities by being bitten by a radioactive spider.Experts say that any […]
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 […]
Once again Mark Anderson is point man on all things the MetLife Superbowl commercial that featured over 75 different comic strip and Saturday morning cartoon characters. MetLife has posted four extra scenes. I’ve posted one below. Head over to Mark’s blog where he’s posted the other three.
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific […]
Doonesbury is gearing up for the elections with an arc about “facts.”I wouldn’t worry too much about all the people who must have been laid off when Big Tobacco finally surrendered. I think the professional liars of the Tobacco Institute landed good jobs at various think tanks around the country where they come up with […]
The Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are the animation industries highest honor and was held last Saturday. This year the Best Animated Feature went to Rango.Here are the official results:Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) – Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations […]
Some in conservatives circles are using an historical propaganda cartoon used in a Iowa classroom as rhetoric to end “the government monopoly on education” because it supports the teaching of communism. The cartoon contrasts capitalism and communism (above) and depicts individuals in capitalism as shackled and their money going to rich, fat bosses while those […]
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon to Lian Amaris. A quick tweet to Lian and a response back confirmed that that the cartoon was used without her knowledge and compensation.Mike writes:If someone puts one of my cartoons on their Facebook page […]
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing.His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House will […]
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk […]
This isn’t really a “classic,” but this Madame & Eve is from a couple of days ago, so it can’t really be the Comic Strip of the Day, either.(Language note: “Gogo” is the Zulu term from “grandmother.” An Afrikaaner kid would call her “Ouma.” I think that leaves at least 9 significant South African languages […]