As part of the Cartoonists Remember 9/11, The Society of Illustrators are presenting a forum entitled “The Impact of Comics and Visual Art on Culture” tomorrow night (Sept. 8). Panelists include Rick Detorie creator of One Big Happy, Tony Rubino Daddy’s Home and Brian Walker Hi and Lois. King Features Syndicate Comics Editor Brendan Burford […]
Great piece in the the Citizen Times about Chris Sparks’ efforts to create Team Cul de Sac to raise money for Parkinson’s Research. Chris’ day job is that of a web designer, but when he found out one of his favorite comic strip cartoonists (Richard Thompson) was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, he was motivated to […]
Phil Hands, editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, took a bit of heat in an editorial written in the Capital Times that took issue with his reference to Hitler in a recent cartoon. The cartoon sports the governor talking about creating jobs and a hippy looking gentleman carrying a “Recall Walker” sign stating, “Ya […]
In his second post in his Editor’s Dispatch blog, King Features Comic Editor Brendan Burford lays out what he’s looking for in comic submissions.If we knew that a certain execution or approach to making comics was guaranteed to bring success to a cartoonist and, by extension, King Features, we’d certainly point cartoonists in that direction. […]
The comics pages are currently full of back-to-school gags, but Jeff Corriveau goes well past the obvious in today’s Deflocked. Comic strips have only a few seconds to capture the mind, but the more I look at this, panel-by-panel, the more I find to admire in it.”Back to School” is an almost mandatory annual topic […]
If you’re in the area of Philadelphia head over to the Moore College of Art & Design and check out a new exhibit of Signe Wilkinson’s editorial cartoons from her 25 years at the Daily News. Exhibit is entitled “Signe Wilkinson: Keeping the World in Line” and runs through October 15. Here’s the description:A Visionary […]
Yesterday’s Non Sequitur clearly resonated with many people. According to the official GoComics blog, Wiley Miller’s strip was viewed over 300,000 times on Sunday – more than 10 times the normal average for a Sunday comic. The carton depicts a super hero character rushing to save a school bus heading over a cliff. I won’t […]
Former Daily Herald editorial cartoonist Aaron Taylor has started a sports webcomic on the topic of his alma mater BYU. Aaron graduated from Brigham Young University in 1997 and was the campus paper’s editorial cartoonist (and won the John Locher Award for his work there in ’97).Aaron was gracious enough answer a few questions about […]
Darrin Bell brings a deft, expert touch to Candorville: He manages to take some of his own experiences and then fictionalize them until they are universal.The required balancing act is the key to successful fiction, and something that often comes up in the plethora of semi-autobiographical strips that are out there, mostly on the web […]
I work with middle-schoolers. I write for middle-schoolers. I like middle-schoolers. But today’s Rhymes With Orange sums up the essential weirdness of middle school.Any system that puts sixth grade boys and eighth grade girls on the same planet is suspect. Putting them in the same building is insane. It’s like all the boys are Rupert […]
Willy & Ethel pretty much sum it up.There’s a certain type of person out here in the country who will beep the little beeper and lock their car to go into a store or the post office, and everyone turns their heads at the sound.It’s a little insulting, really. We weren’t going to rob you. […]
I guess it’s okay to feature Six Chix twice in the same week if you’re featuring a different … um … chick. Stephanie Piro gets the “You must be looking in my windows” award for today’s piece.I have more than once decided to stream a movie and then spent so much time trying to decide […]
Canadian editorial cartoonist Norm Muffitt (AKA Bush) has passed away at the age of 69 due to cancer.Terri Kemball, who served as editor of the Sherwood Park-Strathcona County News for 12 years, met Muffitt in 1992 and described him as having a delightful and gentle sense of humour. “I think that was one of his […]
Noel Murray has a long (about 2500 words) and detailed article over at the AV Club about the history of the comic strip.In reducing the study of newspaper comics to its most essential titles, some significant artists and strips inevitably end up as outliers, even though they may be worth considering from either an aesthetic […]
Garfield the cat is the 900 lb gorilla on the comics page and now on Facebook. As of this writing, the fan page for Jim Davis creation is 2,497 friends away from having 3 million Facebook fans. His last wall post says that once the 3 million mark has been passed there will be a […]