From the “can I get one now” department comes news that Wacom is introducing a new digital pen called “Inkling” which allows artists the ability to draw on paper while the pen and receiver captures the drawing. The receiver is then hooked up to your computer and you can import the drawing into Photoshop, Illustrator […]
Rina Piccolo hits the nail on the head with today’s Six Chix panel.There are jobs out there, as long as you don’t mind taking two or three and being paid for one.This is not theory talking; I was unemployed for about eight months after my last newspaper job ended with the death of the paper.I […]
Editorial cartoonist Mike Lester is moving to Washington Post Writers Group at the end of September. Previously Mike has been syndicated through Cagle Cartoons. Regarding the switch Mike writes in an email:Daryl and I have been friends since he was drawing Muppets and I wasn’t pissing people off. I owe him a great deal and […]
On Sunday, September 11, more than 90 syndicated cartoonist will dedicate their features to pay homage to those who lost their lives or or were injured in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This year is the 10th anniversary of the attacks in New York City, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. The themes will feature a wide range […]
Sunday was Jack Kirby’s 94th birthday (he passed away in 1994). A couple of sites have posted some of his great artwork. Head over to Tom Spurgeon for scroll after scroll after scroll (I don’t want to pay for his hosting fees) worth of Jack’s work.Bleeding Cool has also posted several pieces (in handy thumbnail […]
Nate Fake’s single panel, situational comedy feature Break of Day debuted on GoComics.com yesterday. The feature also runs in the Tampa Bay Times. Nate’s earlier claims to cartooning fame come from being en ex-intern at MAD Magazine.
Skottie Young and Scott Morse (AKA SkottieScott) have launched new bi-weekly webcomic…. with a yet to be decided title. From the announcement on their blog:We’ve decided to make a departure here at SkottieScott from the re-imagined character designs you’ve come to know and love. Instead, we’re opting to CREATE. We’re opting to OWN. We’re opting […]
The Scranton Times Tribune might be one of the smallest papers with a staff editorial cartoonist. The paper has printed a profile of their current cartoonist John Cole who has been there since 2005. The paper boasts of having a staff cartoonist since the early 1900s.When asked about this “tradition,” Larry Beaupre said, “There is […]
Edge City seems to have a predeliction for picking up little moments in family life that haven’t yet been hammered to death on the funny pages. They don’t slam every ball over the fence, but they get a lot of extra base hits, while just the originality makes the strip worth following (and they do […]
Four pages of a 1754 edition of The Pennsylvania Gazette featuring the first editorial cartoon (“Join, or Die” by Benjamin Franklin) is now up for auction and is expected to fetch more than $100,000. Franklin depicted a snake severed into eight sections representing each of the colonies at the time to build unity in the […]
King Features’ comics editor Brendan Burford has begun blogging over on Daily Ink. His first post debuted yesterday stating that he hopes to write a weekly post on Mondays covering comics that he likes, interviews and King Feature news.As a quick aside, King Features has been doing a lot of big overhauls with their website […]
Funny gag from fake news source The Onion who is reporting that Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has been secretly creating new daily installments of his strip for the last 16 years, but then promptly shreds them. Love this line:According to sources, Watterson also spends a portion of his time calling comic strip syndicates […]
I don’t often pick a cartoon based solely on its artwork, and this Damien Glez cartoon certainly has a deserving message beyond its art alone.But in other hands, it would be “yep, he’s right” and move on to the next one.There is something obscene, after all, in the western nations obsessing over the problems of […]
Tom Spurgeon reports that Center For Cartoon Studies Director James Sturm and several students made a middle of the night heroic effort to move about 70 percent of the print material from the Schulz Library that lies near the White River. The river is threatening to flood due to Hurricane Irene. The other material was […]
Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat was beaten and hands broken by Syrian thugs in an attempt to quiet his work last week. The brutality of the attack has gained international attention. The US State Department has condemned the act. Victoria Nuland, US state department spokeswoman, called the beating (and other such tactics against the Syrian people) […]