Archives for 2012
NYT highlights Rage Comics
The New York Times tech section highlights a popular community created comics on Reddit called Rage Comics. In that way, rage comics are not like the average viral YouTube video. They are more like a Bob Newhart sketch: the laughs come not from replaying the public foolishness of some stranger, but from watching the awkward [...]
Posted on: May 11, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 6 Comments
Batman #1 sold for $850,000
A near-mint first edition of a Batman comic book has sold for $850,000 in a private transaction through Heritage Auction. The edition was first printed in 1940. The new owners are only disclosed as an “investor partnership.”
Posted on: May 11, 2012, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Charlie Daniel to be honored for political humor
Knoxville News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel, will be honored next week at a luncheon hosted the by Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy for his “long and illustrious career.” The event is being sponsored by Senator Baker and his wife, Senator Nancy Kassebaum.
Posted on: May 11, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
CRNI awards Courage in Editorial Cartooning to Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi
Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has announced they are awarding their 2012 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award to Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, from India. CNRI is dedicated to defending the human rights of cartoonists who are threatened due to their work. Ali gained international notoriety after Syrian government thugs tried to silence [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Bill Rechin family to retire Crock
Kevin Rechin, son of Crock co-creator Bill Rechin, had decided to retire his father’s strip which he took over shortly before his father passed away of esophageal cancer last year. A quote from Kevin in The Free Lance-Star: “It’s very hard,” he said. “I still go back and forth. In my gut, I want to [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 12 Comments
Update on the Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashings
Yesterday I posted news that Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye had been sentenced to 25 lashings for depicting a local official in a football (soccer to us Yankees) jersey. Information about the case has been limited, but The Guardian has picked up the story and provides a bit more context and detail. Doesn’t change much, though. [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Kenosha Festival of Cartooning receives matching grant from NCSF
The National Cartoonist Society Foundation has offered to match all new donations to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Kickstarter effort until it reaches its $10,000 goal. As of this writing, the festival has raised nearly $5,000 which means that it will need to raise at least $2,500 in the next 13 days in order to [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Gatherings, Comments: 5 Comments
Joel Pett hacks off Kentucky Fans
From The Quad blog at The New York Times: “You can draw all the cartoons you want about things like the global plight of women and it’s this kind of thing that gets people going,” Pett said in a telephone interview Tuesday. To the Kentucky faithful, Pett is raining on their championship parade by criticizing [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Stephanie McMillan wins RFK award
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green. Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Happy birthday american editorial cartooning
Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial cartoon in the Americas. It was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette as a rallying cry unity among the colonies. May the profession continue for many more years and cartoons with labels many more years beyond [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 5 Comments
Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashings
Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh has been sentenced to 25 lashings after drawing an Iranian parliament member in a football jersey. The cartoon appeared in the magazine Nameye Amir. While I’m not 100% certain, the image left might be the offending image.
Posted on: May 8, 2012, Section: International, Comments: 11 Comments
Maurice Sendak passes at age 83
Sad, sad day. Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, has passed away at the age of 83. From The New York Times: In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American children’s literature, in which young heroes and heroines were typically [...]
Posted on: May 8, 2012, Section: Illustration, Comments: 6 Comments
Interviewed: Jonathan Mahood and Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood: Audio Excerpt: JONATHAN MAHOOD: “With newspaper comics, it’s got to be easy for the reader to get on board. I got my first iPod and I was sitting outside with my dog. I was thinking about how these two things follow me [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Ruben Bolling launches Inner Hive
Ken Fisher (AKA Ruben Bolling) has announced that he’s created a monetizing effort called the “Inner Hive” to fans of his comic Tom the Dancing Bug. Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Avengers take in $200.3 MILLION in opening weekend
From Yahoo Movies: Avengers is now positioned to reach $1 billion in global grosses in a much-needed win for Disney, which posted a $200 million loss after John Carter cratered at the box office earlier this year. It’s also a validation of Marvel’s strategy to build a franchise by turning out single titles — Iron [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Movies, Comments: 7 Comments
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