New York Times profiles Lynda Barry
The New York Times has an interesting profile of alternative newspaper and author cartoonist Lynda Berry and the ups-and-downs of her career. She had an unpleasant childhood but was able to attend college where she became friends with Matt Groening, creator of Life in Hell and The Simpsons. It was there that she started [...]
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments
News Briefs for May 5, 2008
» The Beat has your Free Comic Book Day round up.
» Webcomic PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) has partnered with the AfterCollege network to post career and job information to its comic subscribers.
» Tom Richmond reviews Axiotron’s Modbook vs. Cintiq 12 WX for those who draw directly into the computer.
» E&P mentions that Ticonderoga Cartoon [...]
Posted on: May 5, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Museums, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom Richmond on the latest Orphan Act
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond takes issue with an article written by Meredith L. Patterson entitled “Six Misconceptions About Orphaned Works” and why artist have no need to fear the 2008 version of the Orphan Works bill that is making its way through Congress.
A week or two ago I found this sarcastic but reasonably [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Legal, Comments: 1 Comment
Get a free copy of Hogan’s Alley
Tom Heintjes, publisher of “Hogan’s Alley,” is renewing his Free Comic Book day offer this year. Anyone who emails him a request for a free copy of his magazine on Saturday, May 3rd, will receive a free copy of the magazine. The only stipulation is that the request must be received on May 3rd and [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Comics in the 21st Century panel
Scott Lincoln, creator of Ralf the Destroyer, attended the “Comics in the 21st Century” panel at this year’s New York Comicon. He was able to record the session with a hand-held tape recorder and has converted it to MP3. You can download and listen to it from his web site. The recording runs about 53 [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Syndicates, Comments: 0 Comments
Jay Kennedy’s cartoon collection now at Ohio State Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State Cartoon Research Library has announced that Jay Kennedy, the former King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief, who died last year has bequeathed his entire collection to the library. The collection has more than 9,500 items and is considered one of the most extensive collections of underground comics in the world.
Regarding Jay’s collection, [...]
Posted on: Apr 18, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Museums, Comments: 1 Comment
Stay Tooned magazine profiled
The Clarion Ledger has a nice, lengthy article on John Read and the launch of his new quarterly magazine, Stay Tooned!.
While reading an autobiographical piece written by Marcus Hamilton, who was hired at age 50 by retiring Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham, the bulb appeared.
Just as Hamilton began drawing Dennis dailies at age [...]
Posted on: Apr 3, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Magazines, Comments: 2 Comments
April Fools jokes around the cartoonosphere
Here’s a list of some of the April Fools jokes I’ve come across being perpetrated on the cartoonosphere:
» Ted Dawson has the newly re-release of Calvin and Hobbes - Manga edition
» Tom Richmond is hanging up his Mad Blog.
» Rich Stevens‘ Diesel Sweeties is going non-pixel.
» Francesco Marciuliano is quitting writing for Sally Forth and [...]
Posted on: Apr 1, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, others debate webcomic impact on cartooning
Editorial cartoonist and United Media’s Acquisition and Development Editor Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, creator of online and print comic Diesel Sweeties, along with web cartoonist Dean Haspiel, Raina Telgemeier, Collen Venable were at the first Graphic Novel Symposium held on March 15th to discuss the impact and viability of webcomics in the cartooning industry.
The item [...]
Posted on: Mar 25, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, web comics, Comments: 267 Comments
News Briefs March 11, 2008
» Tom Richmond has posted his 3rd how-to article on the topic of caricature. As always - a wealth of information.
» Check out Cafe Con Leche creator Charlos Gary on TV.
» Ted Rall reacts to “Bad Cartoonist” in a very “modern, post-MacNelly style.” (See the March 9th blog post.)
» Mike Lynch has video of an [...]
Posted on: Mar 11, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazine cartoons, Television, Comments: 1 Comment
Stay Tooned! Magazine launches
John Reads long attempt to start his Stay Tooned! quarterly magazine has hit its first milestone - launching. The premiere issue features Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), John Rose (Snuffy Smith), Greg Cravens (The Buckets), Scott Stantis (Prickly City), Steve Kelley (The Times-Picayune), Marshall Ramsey (The Clarion-Ledger), Steven Butler (Sonic X), John Deaton (The [...]
Posted on: Mar 10, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazines, Publications, Comments: 6 Comments
Westergaard wants to auction off Muhammad cartoon; nobody wants to do it
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the now iconic Danish Muhammad cartoon would like to be rid of the cartoon, preferably through an auction, but no auction house will touch it. The proposal to sell the drawing also creates another issue - how much is it worth?
“I would like to think that it has some value,” [...]
Posted on: Feb 29, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Controversies, International, Comments: 1 Comment
17 Danish papers reprint Mohammed cartoons igniting another round of woldwide protests
After the arrest of three men for suspicion of plotting to kill famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, 17 Danish papers have reprinted the 12 Mohammed cartoons “vowing to defend freedom of expression” and in doing so, igniting another round of worldwide protests. Pakistani youth rallied in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and other places burning the Danish [...]
Posted on: Feb 19, 2008, Section: Cartoons, International, Comments: 21 Comments
Tom Richmond posts first of series on how to do caricatures
MAD Magazine cartoonist/illustrator Tom Richmond, has posted the first of a multi-part series on how to do caricatures.
I’ve been working with young caricaturists at theme parks for over two decades now, and I’ve learned one very important lesson… it’s impossible to teach someone to draw caricatures. I can teach them to DRAW… that isn’t [...]
Posted on: Feb 15, 2008, Section: Cartoons, How-to, Comments: 3 Comments
Another Mohammad cartoonist murder plot discovered
Last September I reported that Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had a $100,000 reward on his head after one of his cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad’s head on the body of a dog was published. It’s now being reported that the Sweden’s Economic Crimes Bureau conducted a raid of a home back in November and found [...]
Posted on: Feb 13, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Controversies, International, Comments: 1 Comment
