Chris Sparks who is heading up the Team Cul de Sac project raising money for a Parkinson’s cure has announced that they are extending the deadline for cartoonists still wanting to contribute to the cause. He writes:We have extended the deadline until June 17th! we did this for a couple of reasons. Lee Salem, Caty […]
The Cartoonist Studio’s Cartoon Contest has yielded a winner. Daniel Beyer is the winner and takes home a development contract with Creators Syndicate. Daniel isn’t new to cartooning. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Reader’s Digest and he has a single panel feature on Comics Sherpa called Long Story Short.Daniel works in […]
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) was last weekend and with it the results of the Doug Wright award to honor the best of Canadian cartoonists. The three winners are:Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (BEST BOOK) Alex Fellows for Spain and Morocco (BEST EMERGING TALENT) Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (PIGSKIN PETERS AWARD for experimental and […]
Lee Judge who is the Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist and blogs about the KC Royals recently wrote:About a month ago, I wrote that Wilson Betemit should be willing to get hit by a pitch (it was an 81-mph slider) with the bases loaded in a tie game. Then I started thinking ? what if […]
University of New Mexico African-American students are demanded and received an apology from the student paper, The Daily Lobo, after it ran a cartoon depicting the scene from The Lion King where the monkey Rafiki holds up the young Simba lion cub, but in the drawing President Barak Obama was the Rafiki character holding Osama […]
Phil Hands, editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, was featured on a local news segment about his work and process. Runs about 5 minutes.
Yesterday’s post regarding Bill Watterson’s Mark Twain cartoons caught the eye of Nevin Martell, the author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (my review of Nevin’s book). He passes a long a few more of the cartoons that he’s collected. He notes that the […]
Artist and photographer Thomas Haller Buchanan has posted several cartoons by Bill Watterson that were published during those brief months while Bill was the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Post. I’ve seen a lot of his earlier editorial cartoons, this is the first I’ve seen of a thematic collection.
Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist on Nancy announces that he’s publishing a first Today’s Dogg collection. The book will be in traditional print but also in digital formats with a portion of the proceeds to be donated to pet organizations. The-ebook version will feature a recording and video of “Take Me Home” a song written by Guy […]
Today is May 4th – ‘May the fourth be with you’ day. Not sure how big of a deal it is. Google did not change their logo to commemorate it, but Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted one of his Richards Poor Almanacs cartoons featuring “The Handy Condensed Version of Star Wars Revenge […]
Check out Jeff Stahler featured in a short documentary about editorial cartoonist. Directed and Edited by Amanda H. Cook. Music by Nickel Creek.INK. from Amanda H. Cook on Vimeo.via: Mike Lynch
Jason Oberholtzer, writing on forbes.com, interviews Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal creator Zach Weiner regarding his comic and his first collection of comics, Save Yourself, Mammal!.JO: What made the book so much more work? ZW: A couple things made it harder. First off, this is a compilation, so there was a lot of selection involved. At […]
According to Maurice Horn, editor of 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, Charles Schulz was a fan of Percy L. Crosby the creator of Skippy which ran from 1923 to 1945. Comic critic Domingos Isabelinho writes and shows examples of the visual influence of Crosby’s work on Peanuts.via: Tom Spurgeon
Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine interviews Donna Lewis who recently launched her feature Reply All through Washington Post Writers Group. Recently syndicated writer and artist Donna Lewis joins me to talk about her strip that launched this past February 28th, “Reply All.” We talk about her background as a lawyer, her journey to syndication […]
I noticed on Karen Montague-Reyes’ blog that she’s announced she’ll be ending Clear Blue Water for good at the end of this week. It left syndication in 2008 and Karen planned on turning the strip into a webcomic but struggled to keep it regularly updated.She writes:On another note, some may be wondering where I’ve been. […]