Yesterday’s editorial cartoon by Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler has a striking similarity to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress (see both below).I asked Jeff for a response to which he’d only say, “my only explaination [sic] is that it’s a coincidence.”This is the second coincidence this year. Last March, one of his […]
CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over another. […]
Dylan Horrocks has created this faux-Tintin cover as an auction item for a crowd-sourcing effort to send freelance journalist and fellow Kiwi Jon Stevenson back to Afghanistan for another look at the situation there, where New Zealand has SAS forces stationed.Of course, it’s brilliant of him to riff on the current interest in Tintin, whose […]
One good thing about Newt Gingrich moving into the forefront of the GOP Nomination Extravaganza is that he inspires more incisive commentary.As has been noted before, others in this college of clowns have been so ridiculous that they left cartoonists with nothing to work with. Cain, Perry, Bachmann and such were like the pathetic, deluded […]
One of the problems with making “Cul de Sac” the CSOTD is that Richard Thompson can contain an entire rant within, in this case, five panels. He leaves me little upon which to fulminate.But not today.In the real world, I edit a publication for middle-school students which often contains book and movie reviews. There is […]
Sean Pitts profiles Orlando Sentinel editorial cartoonist Dana Summers about his sketch to color process .Dana also does the Bound and Gagged comic strip.
From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves:“While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the strip, […]
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the […]
I love Tom Toles’ ability to create genuinely funny cartoons with substance, and much of that humor comes from a simple style that allows, for example, this plummeting European to maintain a completely bland expression as he assesses his situation.As the EU struggles to avoid an across-the-board collapse, it begins to seem like the Black […]
The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year.From Michael Cavna:The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million […]
Thomas Nast, the founding father of modern editorial cartooning, has been nominated to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, but one influential and vocal group is taking issue with the nomination. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, “an Irish-Catholic fraternal organization founded around the principles of Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity” says that Nast was a […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnson has been producing a volume of video podcasts (59 so far). It’s a trove of information for all things Lynn Johnson, her strip, and cartooning in general. If you’re in the earlier stages of a career in comics, there is a lot of good information on her […]
Rich Diesslin has kicked off his annual The Cartoon Days of Christmas for the ninth time. Everyday the site posts holiday related cartoons today through January 5th. Participating cartoonists include: Larry Miller, Ron Morgan, Sean Boley, Dale Hunt and Rich himself.
I’m becoming a fan of Vladimir Kazanevsky, who I featured here just a month ago with another cartoon published on the Cartoon Movement site, of which I am also a fan.That cartoon had a great metaphor, but employed it in terms of a specific situation in his native Ukraine. This one, by contrast, is sadly […]
The British film archive discovered an episode of “Hungry Hobos” – an animation short by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks dated 1927. It features the Oswald character which is considered by most to be the prototype of Mickey Mouse.Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain’s biggest independent film libraries, said he […]