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Judging 2009’s New Yorker cartoonists
The Village Voice’s Brian Parks has ranked last year’s best New Yorker cartoonists. The article doesn’t specify the judging criteria. Top ranking cartoonists included: Paul North, John O’Brien, Alex Gregory, Drew Dernavich and Danny Shanahan. Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff landed at #7.
Posted on: Jan 14, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 5 Comments
News briefs for December 1, 2009
Books
» Todd DePastino Wins 2009 Sperber Prize for his Biography of World War II Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (available at Amazon.com)
» Secret Asian Man creator Tak Toyoshima is releasing a complete collection of his strip that ran in daily syndication. The book is entitled “Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days” and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
Comic [...]
Posted on: Dec 1, 2009, Section: Books, Comic strips, Interviews, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Chicago Humanities Festival wrap-up
Several stories have been filed about last weekend’s Chicago Humanities Festival featuring several notable cartoonists.
The Chicago Tribune writes about New Yorker cartoonists Pat Byrnes, Edward Koren, Roz Chast and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about cartooning humor for The New Yorker.
The Tribune also write about Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry and Matt [...]
Posted on: Nov 9, 2009, Section: Alternative comics, Comic strips, Gatherings, Magazine cartoons, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
News briefs for October 9, 2009
Editorial Cartooning
» Mark Fiore and Matt Bors teamed up to create an animated editorial cartoon poking fun at ACORN.
Interviews
» Comics Coast to Coast interviews Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap.
Magazine Cartooning
» New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff is featured expert on Big Think. The series includes Bob talking about his career in comics, the challenges of [...]
Posted on: Oct 9, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Success in Comics seminar notes: Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson, the comic genius behind Andertoons, was the third speaker in the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. Mark majored in music in college and started his professional career in sales but his passion was always in cartooning. Wanting to do it professionally, he set goals for himself to produce more and more [...]
Posted on: Sep 26, 2009, Section: Magazine cartoons, Self Syndication, Comments: 6 Comments
Throwin’ down a cartoon-off
Victor Vazquez of rap duo Das Racist challenged the New Yorker’s Farley Katz to a cartoon-off. Vazquez wasn’t too pleased with Katz’s “lazy journalism.”
Posted on: Sep 3, 2009, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
News Briefs for August 4, 2009
Comic Strips
» The Aaugh Blog has an interesting post on who draws (and doesn’t draw) the Peanuts characters that appear in merchandising.
» Who does this @#$@ think he is? Sure we all have lists of comics we don’t like, but comics favorites are so subjective, it’s hard for anyone to really argue who’s work is [...]
Posted on: Aug 4, 2009, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Contests, Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Magazine cartoons, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
MAD magazine publishes 500th edition
This week MAD magazine publishes its 500th edition after 57 years. MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond tells us what to expect this week:
The editors and staff wanted to have issue 500 contain as many of the artists and writers who helped MAD get to issue 500 as possible, so MAD took a sort of [...]
Posted on: Apr 23, 2009, Section: Magazine cartoons, Magazines, Comments: 13 Comments
News Briefs for April 16, 2009
Comic Strips
» Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau has a piece in Monday’s New Yorker (now available online). It’s an “unedited transcript of the complete G-20 Summit coverage of Roland Hedley, senior Twitter correspondent for Fox News, who appears regularly in ‘Doonesbury’.”
» Chuck Barney interviews Dilbert creator Scott Adams on what keeps Scott going after 20 years. [...]
Posted on: Apr 16, 2009, Section: Comic strips, International, Magazine cartoons, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments
Caricature organization announces convention details
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the National Caricaturist Network) has announced details to their 2009 convention to be held in Sandusky OH this November.
The confirmed speakers include Sam Viviano, Longtime MAD artist and current art director, Mark Fredrickson, Frequent MAD cover artist, Hermann Mejia MAD caricaturist and Tom Richmond a [...]
Posted on: Feb 26, 2009, Section: Conventions, Magazine cartoons, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 1 Comment
Mark Anderson partners with SlideRock
Mark Anderson, perhaps one of the more entrepreneurial cartoonist in the market, has teamed up with Sliderock.com – an online presentation website. The partnership embeds Mark’s cartoons into their stockphoto section and each time a user opts to use on of his cartoons, they can purchase the usage rights from within the software through an [...]
Posted on: Feb 2, 2009, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Magazine market dropping the use of cartoons
Last week came news of several papers in the alt-newspaper market that were temporarily suspending buying syndicated cartoons. Mike Lynch reports that several magazines have stopped buying cartoons, reduced their payout or started buying Cartoonbank cartoons. Specifically he mentions First for Women, Good Housekeeping, Time Magazine and Woman’s World as having made major changes to [...]
Posted on: Feb 2, 2009, Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
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