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 […]
It was said that, if you sat at the Moulin Rouge long enough, everyone in the world would eventually pass by. Not, obviously, a literal statement. Nor is it literally true that, if you visit justthefirstframe.com, you will see the first frame of every webcomic on the Internet.But there are a lot of them there, […]
Tom Racine interviewes Anne Hambrock on her efforts to bring together the 2nd annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. From Tall Tale Radio:Anne Hambrock, wife of John Hambrock of “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” and colorist for the strip, is deep in the throes of organizing the 2nd Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She threw this […]
In Big Nate, Nate has decided to cash in on the market for romance novels by writing a bodice-ripper set in the War of 1812.By coincidence, yesterday I got to see the printer’s dummy for my historical novel, aimed at middle-school kids like Nate, which is also set in the War of 1812. And I […]
I like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal a lot, but this one touched off mostly memories of how much this wasn’t my experience. That wouldn’t have seemed as striking except that, for some reason I can’t identify, I’ve gone through a sequence of dreams in the last week or so that involved old girlfriends. Nothing erotic, mind […]