Another group of National Cartoonists Society cartoonists have head out overseas with the USO to visit with troops serving in Germany and the Middle East. This year, the deployed cartoonists consisted of Todd Clark, Paul Combs, Bruce Higdon, Bill Janocha, T. Lewis, John Read III, Debbie Schafer, Rob Smith, Jr., Ed Steckley and Sam Viviano. […]
One of the books my father gave me in my adult years was his copy of “Best of Yank,” a wartime compilation of that landmark newspaper that I spent more time perusing than he did.In addition to cartoons, the GIs on staff and in the field sent back some good illustrations of their lives at […]
From Mike Rhode comes news that Bob Artley has passed away at the age of 94. Professionally he was the editorial cartoonist at the Des Moines Tribune, Worthington Globe, and was an illustrator and commercial artist in Akron, OH. In 1952 through 1957 he was employed as an editorial cartoonist with the Des Moines Tribune. […]
Interesting idea being executed by Six Chix Stephanie Piro:I’ve said before how much I LOVE Halloween. We have a lot to celebrate with scary movies, Halloween cartoons and I’ll be doing a Halloween Cartoon Club on Monday at the library. This week I was invited by a cartoon group called the Trees and Hills Cartoonist […]
Brendan Bufford and Norm Feuti have posted another installment covering the road to syndication for Norm’s Gil strip. Today they cover the drawing and inking process.My other strip, RETAIL, is created the same way, with two exceptions. I use a computer font to create the lettering for RETAIL, and I use a halftone fill for […]
Poynter reports that the release of the latest operating system (iOS 5) for Apple’s iPad and iPhone has caused a surge downloads for newspapers. The new OS comes with a new app called Newsstand where users can subscribe to magazines and newspapers. One of the examples cited was the NYTimes app which saw 189,000 new […]
J.R. Williams’ “Out Our Way” was a daily panel with a number of themes, including family comedy, sibling rivalry, factory doings and events on a ranch out west. Williams had worked both in a factory and on a ranch and he’d evidently once been a little boy, judging from how well he depicted little boys.It’s […]
Yesterday, I mentioned the idea that cartoonists probably do the medium no favor with cultural references that you have to be 50 years old to get.I have no idea how “Star Wars” references fit into that concept, since, on the one hand, it seems to be an eternal classic while, on the other, the constant […]
“Sally Forth” used to be one of those strips that you only read because it was almost entertainingly bad. Then, in 1999, Francesco Marciuliano took over the writing and gradually transformed it into something so odd that it has climbed to the top tier of my favorites.Sally herself has always been a traffic cop character, […]
I reported a while back that Mike Lester was moving to The Washington Post Writers Group. The move has kicked off a bit of a chain reaction. Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle is moving to Mike’s former syndicate, Cagle Syndicate. Taking Rick’s place at King Features is Glenn Foden who is syndicated through Artizans.com.
Great video of Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. Via Mike Lynch
Illustration by Stephane Peray (Stephff) of the Nation, Bangkok.I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviews Jerry Craft, creator of Momma’s Boyz, about his comic and his new book Mama’s Boyz: Home Schoolin, Because Learning Shouldn’t Stop at 3 O’clock!First let me thank you for taking time to do this interview. You have a very vibrant and fun illustration style. Where did the style for Mama’s Boyz […]
The Washington Post is commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the passing their editorial cartoonist Herb Block (or Herblock) who drew for the paper for 55 years before passing in 2001. Donald E. Graham remembers visiting Herblock in the hospital in August 2001. Block was 91 and still drawing five cartoons a week. The publisher […]
Aside from a bit o’ controversy regarding the film itself by Europeans, the opening credits are kinda cool.