The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has announced this year’s commencement speaker will be cartoonist and comic author Scott McCloud. Scott is an Eisner Hall of Famer, author of the best-selling series Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics, as well as co-creator of The Cartoonists Club (Raina Telgemeier).Commencement will be this weekend on May 17. Included […]
New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell comes to BoiseBoise Weekly spotlights Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell prior to her meet and greet at Pengilly’s Saloon. Hilary Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, comedian and author whose latest project blends humor with vulnerability. Her newest graphic memoir, “The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, is also turning 20 years old this year. They had a small gallery celebration Friday and, since I drive through WRJ several a day, I dropped by to see the place.I got a kick out of Alison Bechdel‘s piece, which was on the wall (pardon […]
Friday Funnies is supposed to be a refuge from ponderous significance, but we’ll start and end with wisdom today and I hope sprinkle in a little more throughout. After all, humor is derived from wisdom, in that you have to know how things work before you can appreciate seeing them twisted.This includes understanding that wisdom is, […]
First, this note: Editorial cartoonists should submit their “clown in a storm sewer” cartoons by Sunday night. A few of you have not yet turned yours in and there will be fines for late additions. Baby Blues reminds me that, yes, we did have this game when my boys were small, and it was fun and, […]
In an interesting but coincidental bit of timing, Leela Corman’s “Life is an Ambush: My Two Birth Stories” came out on the Nib just as the latest edition of “The Best American Comics” is hitting the shelves.In an even more interesting bit of timing, I got hung up at the eye doctor’s for three hours […]
Mike Lynch notes the Toonseum in Pittsburgh’s current exhibition, “Draw Me,” which examines the various cartooning courses offered over the years, back when newspapers and magazines were full of cartoons and, well, back when America was full of newspapers and magazines.America was also full of cigarette smoke back then, and the iconic matchbook inviting you to […]
I’m finding it hard to get too inspired by a lot of cartoons lately, particularly over in the political sphere, and I think I know why. I’ll start with an Ed Hall panel to get the conversation going without tapping into one political wing or the other.This one isn’t bad, but my point is that it […]
Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]
I always hope that people are following at least some of the links here, sometimes because I link to something cool or funny in the way of additional commentary, but first and foremost because I link to the various featured artists and (A) I hope to turn people on to new stuff and (B) it’s […]
Tom Spurgeon, keeper of the must-go site for comic book enthusiasts, “The Comics Reporter,” offers a link to a Canadian history site that featured a brief discussion of this 1958 offering, “Apostle of the Hurons,” a graphic biography of Saint Jean de Brébeuf that appeared in the “Indian Record,” a publication of a religious order that […]
“Pints and Panels” is an interesting use of the medium that I think works very well for what Emily Sauter is up to.Blogging your life through cartooning has become popular, though today’s Cul de Sac points out a slight flaw in the concept:Putting something boring, dull and uneventful into cartoon format does not transform it […]