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NCS creates new award category for webcomics

The National Cartoonists Society has created a new and separate award category for webcomics this year in its division awards. The category is simply named “On-Line Comic Strips” and requires that the feature be a comic strip (no single panel or long-form narrative), appear on the web only at least weekly, and the creator has […]

CSotD: Cartoon Classic: Mitt Goldwater

Herblock had little patience for Barry Goldwater’s pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstraps attitude towards the poor, and expresses it in straightforward fashion with this 1961 broadside.God knows what he’d make of Mitt Romney. Of course, Mitt didn’t inherit a department store. He didn’t even inherit a car company. We don’t pass on actual businesses to our children anymore. When […]

Cartoon Movement to publish Haiti book project

Cartoon Movement editors Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards spent a month in Haiti earlier this year with the goal of finding an artist and writers for a comic journalism project to document the issues facing that country after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The first chapter of the book “Tents Beyond Tents” will be released on […]

CSotD: Ironic City, man

The Knight Life with a double-swipe — one at the economy and one at the ironic hipsters who made PBR a well-known acronym.There is no such thing as ironic beer. Beer comes in two basic forms: Good beer and Bad beer. It is a continuum and there are plenty of beers that are “okay,” and […]

Mark Anderson launches rework of Andertoons.com

Mark Anderson, creator of Andertoons, has relaunched a redesign of his cartoon commerce site. The new site boasts of a better search engine, faster load times (upwards of 600%!), larger cartoons and a cleaner interface for finding the perfect cartoon.Mark has one of the best comic commerce sites on the web. If I were to […]

Ronald Searle exhibit opens tomorrow

In light of the recent passing of Ronald Searle Gallery Nucleus (Alhambra CA) is opening a special exhibit tomorrow featuring the great British cartoonist and illustrator.Gallery Nucleus is honored to present the world-renowned cartoonist and illustrator, Ronald Searle, for a special solo exhibition. Searle has been an influential figure in the cartooning world since the […]

Interviewed: Ali Ferzat determined to return to Syria

PRI interviews Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat who is now in Kuwait recouping from the being beaten by Syrian authorities who attempted to silence the cartoonist by clubbing and breaking his hands. Accompanying story also includes a slideshow of his work and descriptions of some of the cartoons critical of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that lead […]

CSotD: Medium hot

Kirk Walters with a spot-on metaphor for what happened in Iowa Tuesday and what it means for Rick Santorum and the next few weeks of the GOP Death March.What I particularly like about it is the innocence mixed with cruelty. Little kids do this to ants, and it isn’t nice but it doesn’t arise to […]

Counting down to Success in Cartooning seminar

Just a reminder that we’re a few weeks away from Success in the World of Comics Seminar (February 25-26) in Vegas put on by the Tundra marketing genius Bill Kellogg and creator Chad Carpenter. If you didn’t attend the first you can read my notes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. […]

CSotD: The Porcelain Principle

One of the things Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman always hear is that Zits opens conversations between parents and adolescents, whether that day’s strip features Jeremy or his folks as the butt of the joke. That’s probably why Zits is one of the top strips in terms of the number of papers that feature it, […]

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