The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was last week. Here’s an radio interview featuring Tom Bancroft, Sandra Bell Lundy, Anne Hambrock, Paul Gilligan, John Hambrock, Michael Jantz, and Tom Richmond.Direct MP3 download.Paul has a small recap, Sandra has a lengthier one.
In honor of the passing of Ziggy creator Tom Wilson Sr. , GoComics has posted the most visited Ziggy cartoon of the last 365 days. Here’s how they introduced it:I admit that I laughed and then I said eww, and then I washed my hands and drank a small non-toxic dose of some anti-bacterial hand […]
King Features comic editor Brendan Burford tackles the question – which is more important in cartooning the writing or art?I suppose I can agree that good writing can save bad art better than good art can save bad writing. But this whole debate frustrates me. Comics are a medium that relies on words and pictures […]
Technical storytelling praise first: That final panel is brilliant, combining his horror at what he has done to this poor woman with the triumphant little “got what I wanted” in the lower right corner, which shows some mixed emotions when compared to the larger captioning in the box. In fact, the entire panel is a […]
Lim Cheng Tju of Singapore took an opportunity to meet and interview Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ul Haque better known as Zunar about his struggles with free speech in his country. Here’s an excerpt from the first question skipping the how he got interested in cartooning response:Q: How did you get started drawing political […]
Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price will teach the Cartooning Master class at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on October 19. She’ll teach students how to brainstorm and develop cartooning skills. Rhymes with Orange has been in syndication since 1995 and has twice won the NCS’ Best Newspaper Panel award.Visit the Cartoon Art […]
Slowpoke makes a particularly spot-on point in a time when the rationalizations for selfishness and cruelty are getting a lot of friendly air time and Internet play.The libertarian notion that people will take care of people relies on two utterly false premises:1. That we live in a society that values and fosters community. Libertarians believe […]
Tom Pappalardo notes that many of the visual props (newspapers, televisions, music players) used to create context for comics are getting smaller and harder to use. The visual language is evolving as technology evolves:In many ways, technology?especially consumer-driven technology?has been striving for the same thing as cartoonists for years now. Simpler, smaller, more streamlined. Minimalist. […]
Michael Ventrella has posted an interview with Candorville creator Darrin Bell.Excerpt: VENTRELLA: How did that get you into doing comics as a career? BELL: In a roundabout way… I was in gifted and talented programs in Jr. High and High School, and I realized my interest in history and civics was outpacing my interest in […]
Tom Wilson Sr., the creator of the iconic Ziggy comic strip passed away last Friday at the age of 80. From Universal Uclick:Ziggy which celebrated 40 years in syndication in June 2011, continues to be produced by Wilson’s son, Tom Wilson Jr., who has handled the day-to-day operation of the panel since 1987. Ziggy is […]
What makes Cul de Sac so special is that Richard Thompson doesn’t just remember what happened when you were a kid, but how it felt.This doesn’t always translate into individual strips that make you fall out of your chair. Last week, he did an arc in which Alice insisted on riding the umbroller to the […]
A twisted little moment from Jeff Corriveau at Deflocked.Today’s cartoon manages to be so very wrong and so very right at the same time.First, let’s deal with the blasphemy issue: Artists do not have to be wonderful their whole lives. It’s perfectly all right to enjoy certain periods of Picasso or Bob Dylan or Marlon […]
Jeffrey Koterba hits the nail on the head. Any grandfather who is primarily worried about what Social Security will be like in 50 or 60 years simply isn’t paying attention.I do wish the headlines on that paper weren’t solely about the economy, because that’s not all of it, though our grandkids will have to figure […]
I’ve taken a couple of respectful lumps for siding with the newspapers that opted to drop Doonesbury for the week. Now that I’ve seen the entirety of the storyline, I can see how a reasonable editor would say, “this is out of bounds.” John Kass wrote an article for The Chicago Tribune about the whole […]
Dave Coverly is giving me flashbacks with today’s Speed Bump.When our first was born, we lived about an hour away from my in-laws and across the country from my own folks. It was like living on a well-stocked desert island — we had total control of the baby’s input. Shopping was one of my […]