With this morning’s sad news of Bill Gallo’s passing, I asked the few sports cartoonists still drawing for their reactions. Bill Hinds, creator of Cleats and co-creator of Tank McNamara tells me that Bill was a legend.Whenever I would talk to him I couldn’t help but start playing Six Degrees of Bill Gallo in my […]
New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo has passed away from complications to pneumonia last night according to the Daily News. “My father is a lasting legend to New York, and to New York sports,” said Gallo’s son, Greg. “He will be forever thought of as a great cartoonist for the Daily News, […]
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher was invited to give a TED Talk at the TEDx Warwick conference at Warwick University in the UK. He choose to speak on “The Magic and Power of Caricature.” His talk is now available. See below:You can keep up with KAL (who usually has several things going on) on his blog.
Vermont Public Radio interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren about his approach to cartooning.Download MP3 or listen through browser.
The National Cartoonists Society has announced their division awards. The nominees are:TELEVISION ANIMATION Dave Filoni – Supervising Director / Production Designer, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Dan Krall – Art Director, “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated” Scott Wills – Art Director, “Sym-Bionic Titan”FEATURE ANIMATION Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Directors, “How to Train Your Dragon” Glen Keane, Animation […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched a Visiting Artists Blog to showcase the artists-in-residence and visiting artists who come to talk about their art.ht: Tom Spurgeon
I received this notice from The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians:The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians has as part of its objectives the awarding of a scholarship to a student interested in learning the mystical art of sequential illustration. This scholarship will be at least a lowly $100, but might reach loftier sums of $200 […]
I reported yesterday that five media organizations have appealed to the United Nations asking the body for assistance in finding a missing Sri Lankan cartoonist/columnist who disappeared over a year ago. A UN spokesperson has acknowledged receiving the request and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will investigate and report back to […]
David E. Miller writes about the changing rules in the Middle East for cartoonists. he winds of change blowing through the Arab world have brought about a dramatic breakthrough in the liberties granted to the Arab media, and political cartoonists are no exception. Once banned from depicting the image of their leaders, today Arab cartoonists […]
Matt Bors interviews three Hungarian editorial cartoonists who are grappling with a repressive new “fairness law.”Matt Bors: The implications of this law are frightening if fully implemented. Assaulting the “human dignity” of politicians is what editorial cartoonists do for a living. How might this new media law effect cartoons? Gábor Pápai: The consequences of the […]
The Las Vegas Sun ran a full, front page cartoon by their editorial cartoonist Mike Smith. The cartoon is about NASCAR which were in Vegas this last weekend. Probably no other cartoonist knows NASCAR as well as Mike. (He’s even wrote/cartooned a book it).The cartoon was also made into an animated piece for the website […]
Back in December, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly recently spoke at a TED conference dedicated to women. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” The video wasn’t available back then, but is now. Here it is:
Rob Tornoe reports that editorial cartoonist John Trever is retiring from the Albuquerque Journal after 34 years. You’ve been drawing political cartoons for the Albuquerque Journal since 1976, over 30 years. What made now the time to pull back? I guess I should feel guilty, giving up an editorial cartoonist’s position in this environment, but […]
Michael Cavna interviewed San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Breen about his “Living in the Shadows” project. MICHAEL CAVNA: Did you do the reporting for your cartoon, Steve, or was that gathered by other journalists as part of the Union-Tribune’s larger immigration coverage? STEVE BREEN: This cartoon took months of work here and there, but […]