Some upcoming events that may be in your area of interest. With Harry Bliss, Edward Gorey, Al Hirschfeld, Ralph Steadman, William H. Walker, and a supporting cast of thousands including members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and The Usual Gang of Idiots. Motion Lines: How Cartoonists Draw Movement Featuring over 100 examples from […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is awarding their Silver T-Square to cartoonist John Kovaleski. From the NCS announcement: The National Cartoonists Society is proud to announce that John Kovaleski will be honored with the Silver T-Square Award at the 79th Annual Reuben Awards, held this year in Boston on August 15th. The Silver T-Square recognizes individuals […]
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., closes Sunday, the 27th, giving you eight days to get there. Stockbridge is about two hours from Boston, two-and-a-half from New York City and less than an hour from Albany. I drove three hours to get there and it was […]
This is who I feel sorry for. Joel Pett works in Kentucky and so has a front-row seat to the result of the betrayal of the coal miners. In the margin of the Lexington Herald-Leader page where this cartoon appears is a headline for another story: “Paychecks bounce, leaving Kentucky coal miners at bankrupt Blackjewel […]
From Today’s New York Times: This crumbling, beer-splotched wall in the back of a sports bar on East 44th Street is one of New York’s more neglected cultural treasures. Created in the 1970s, it is a veritable Sistine Chapel of American comic-strip art: the 30-some drawings across its face were left by a who’s who of cartooning […]