Jason Chatfield, President of the Australian Cartoonists Association and Ginger Meggs artist, was dragged aside a speeding taxi last Saturday in a hit and run accident. After spending an evening with friends watching a comedy show, Jason and his girlfriend, Sophie, had trouble hailing a taxi to head home. They called a taxi service to […]
Well, timing is everything and sometimes it’s nothing, but you’re probably better off for it. I just got “Waiting for Superman” from Netflix but haven’t watched it yet, which forestalls a long rant about this Signe Wilkinson cartoon.But it doesn’t preclude a shorter one which will be quite long enough, I’m sure.She’s right, of […]
This would be a good time to dip into Dick Tracy for a few weeks and see how you like it.The strip had been drawn by Dick Locher since 1983, but he has just retired and handed it over to a new team, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis, longtime fans of the 80-year-old […]
Sometimes stupid is what you wanted, and today’s Sherman’s Lagoon is a really stupid comic strip that gave me a chance to write a really stupid headline.It was a near thing. Given the purported location of Sherman’s Lagoon, it would perhaps be more logical to suspend the fan from a dugong rather than a manatee, […]
The Charles M. Schulz Award for best college cartoonist went to John Vestevich of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. this year. The Schulz Award is sponsored by the The Scripps Howard Foundation. John will receive $10,000 and a plaque.Finalists for the award were David Zaleski, Los Angeles Loyolan Newspaper, Loyola Marymount University, Los […]
Mike Thompson has been awarded the Scripps Howard Award for Editorial Cartooning. Mike takes home $10,000 and a trophy. His submission contained traditional editorial cartoons as well as his animation.The Scripps Howard Foundation also announced that Ted Rall and Steve Breen were finalists.
Another nugget of excellent advice from Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove regarding the keeping of sketchbooks. I used to be afraid of brand new sketchbooks. The blank, pristine pages were intimidating, and seemed to look back at me with a demanding stare: Draw Something! The pages wanted something else from me, too ? they […]
Mike Rhode continues interviewing cartoonists whose comics are returning to the City Paper. Today he writes about David Malki! and his comic Wondermark. WCP: What do you think the future of comics will be? DM: The future of comics will be a single giant Garfield panel that everyone can type their own name into, and […]
Yesterday, the House pushed through a bill defunding public broadcasting, in an effort to make a grandstanding ploy to energize their nutbase. The bill probably won’t even get a vote in the Senate, much less pass.I can relate to today’s Knight Life strip, though, because we just went through another pledge drive here. Yet another […]
I’m told The Pearls Before Swine: An Evening with Stephan Pastis event put on by The Cartoon Art Museum has sold out. The book signing is still an option if you want to meet Stephan. The lecture and book signing is this Saturday. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, check it out.
Later this month the New York Times will implement the long anticipated subscription pay-wall. In a column by Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. the six access scenarios were listed out. They are: On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we […]
Vermont Public Radio interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren about his approach to cartooning.Download MP3 or listen through browser.
Mike Rhode interviews Derf in his Washington City Paper column. WCP: What other type of cartooning or illustration do you do? Derf: I’m a graphic novelist. My last book, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, was included in the prestigious Best American Comics 2010 and my next one, My Friend Dahmer, a memoir of my teenage […]
The Denver Post Editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has been named the winner of the 2011 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. Keefe’s winning entry for the most recent competition pokes fun at legislation enacted by Arizona last year, the “broadest and strictest in the nation” to curb illegal immigration, according to The New York Times. The […]
Brock Heasley became really close to closing down his five-year-old webcomic Superfogeys after feeling more and more like he needed to devote his time to other things. He was convinced the keep the story going and turn over the drawing to another artist. Starting next week Marc Lapierre’s work will debut.Change is hard. I appreciate […]