Showcasing the talents of Harley Schwadron, Jeff Koterba, Maximilian Uriarte, Medar de la Cruz, Sydney Lindstrom, Tony Millionaire, and Barbara Shermund. Harley Schwadron Claudia Capos for Michigan Today profiles Harley Schwadron their Wizard of Wit alumni. Schwadron is an internationally acclaimed freelance cartoonist and illustrator whose work has been published seemingly everywhere: The New York […]
Michael Maslin links to a few original art auctions from classic New Yorker contributors. One being a ca. 1937 Peter Arno College Humor cartoon, another being a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon. The former went for $506 the latter for $24,381. A third original art from a Barbara Shermund Pictorial Review cartoon sold for […]
The Harvey Award winners were announced tonight at the end of the New York Comic Con. The Harvey Awards honors books and creators working in sequential art. Additionally, six individuals were inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Here are the inductees and the category winners.Harvey Awards Hall of Fame InducteesBook of the YearWinner […]
The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run.The New York Comic Con also issues the […]
From Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) to The Toxic Avenger (Matt Bors) with Molly and the Bear (Bob and Vicki Scott), Spongebob Squarepant (U.S. Postal Service), Chris Ware (USPS again), Barbara Shermund (Liza Donnelly), and Goofus and Gallant (Garry Myers and Marion Hull Hammel)From Little Orphan to Just Plain AnnieA few days over 101 years […]
Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned.Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?)Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll see how […]
Deon Parson, Kate Beaton, Barbara Shermund, Art Spiegelman, Colin Whittock, Alison Bechdel, Clay Jones$upr Dee Parson Parson, 29, is the creator of multiple comic strips, including “Life With Kurami” (debuted in 2015); “Pen and Ink” (debuted in 2017); and “Rosebuds” (debuted in 2019). “Rosebuds” has been Parson’s biggest financial success thus far in his career. […]
Liza Donnelly TCJ: And during this time you were submitting cartoons to other magazines and selling there? Liza: By then I had met a bunch of other cartoonists. There was a cartoonists association. I met Sam Gross and Roz Chast and George Booth around that time. Particularly from Sam you learned about the other publications. […]
Ask A Cartoonist: Where Do You Find Inspiration?James Allen: “Mark Trail stories are inspired, initially, from actual news stories.” Bill Holbrook: “…the process is a mystery to me even after all these years.” Alex Hallatt: “I always gain inspiration from walking, especially uphill…” (??!!) For the full responses from the above, and more, go to […]