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Anton Emdin posts inking with a brush tutorial
Anton Emdin, one of this year’s NCS nominees in the Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has posted a tutorial on inking with a brush. Inking is fun! There’s something intoxicating and slightly scary about laying down permanent ink over a sketch you may have spent hours on. When I was starting out I often felt that [...]
Posted on: Apr 19, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
Profiled: New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly
Carolina Pedraza over at Wacky Short Creations interviews New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly. HW: What part of your day is spent sketching and drawing, and what part is spent infusing your brain with what’s going on in the world so you can draw about it? LD: (laughter) That is well put. When I was younger, [...]
Posted on: Apr 13, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
Profiled: New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren
Vermont Public Radio interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren about his approach to cartooning. Download MP3 or listen through browser.
Posted on: Mar 17, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Profiled Liza Donnelly and her New Yorker career
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly had not one but two articles profiling her this weekend. The Daily Camera writes about her new book “When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman” and the Poughkeepsie Journal delves into her marriage with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin
Posted on: Mar 14, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Profiled: MAD Mag cartoonist Tom Richmond
The Dakota County Tribune Business Weekly has great profile of MAD Magagzine cartoonist Tom Richmond and how he became a MAD Magazine regular, his caricature business and his obsession with Batman. Richmond broke in after “relentlessly” sending his work to the magazine’s art department and meeting twice with the art director in the summer of [...]
Posted on: Feb 15, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Liza Donnelly profiled in The Daily Freeman
The Daily Freeman profiles the career of New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly
Posted on: Jan 6, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
Interview: Sergio Aragonés on his 5 decade career
Sergio Aragonés is interviewed by The National Post regarding his book, MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works. Q So when you were looking through your older work, were there any that surprised you? A Very much. I’ve got tens of thousands, and sometimes when I look at them I’ve completely [...]
Posted on: Dec 22, 2010, Section: Cartoons, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 4 Comments
Liza Donnelly gives TED talk on cartooning
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly gave a talk at a TED conference dedicated to women in Washington D.C. yesterday. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” Her involvement with TEDWomen includes curating an exhibit of international cartoons entitled, “The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Women.” I’ll post [...]
Posted on: Dec 8, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum passes at age 68
New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum has passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 68. The New York Times’ obituary notes that for most of his career, Leo was a TWA pilot but he will be remembered for his cartoons – some 819 of them. The magazine rejected his early submissions but bought some [...]
Posted on: Oct 27, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
Festival of Cartoon Art notes: Roz Chast
Roz Chast began selling cartoons to the New Yorker in 1978. She’s been a fixture in the publication ever since. Her presentation was a gallery of some of her best work over her amazing career. Roz Chast: It would be great to draw one cartoon a week & get published, but the reality each cartoonist [...]
Posted on: Oct 17, 2010, Section: Festival of Cartoon Art, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
MAD Magazine comes to Cartoon Network
The LA Times reports that Spy vs. Spy and other MAD Magazine classic cartoons are now on the Cartoon Network as a 15 minute comedy show. Noelene Clark has posted an interview with the show’s producers Mark Marek and Kevin Shinick. NC: How did the idea for a Mad magazine-inspired cartoon end up on Cartoon [...]
Posted on: Sep 8, 2010, Section: Animation, Magazine cartoons, Television, Comments: 8 Comments
Mankoff responds to New Yorker/Kanye tweet mashup
Cartooning “tweets” has been a rage of late. I’ve reported that Paul Sabourin started pairing New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West’s tweets and yesterday I posted news that Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was drawing original sketches of other people’s tweets. And with that post, I learned that BECK has been doing this for a [...]
Posted on: Aug 19, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Kanye West Tweets paired with New Yorker Cartoons
Paul Sabourin, co-comedian in the musical comedy duo Paul and Storm, has started substituting New Yorker cartoon captions with recent Kanye West Twitter tweets – often with very funny results. urlesque.com interviewed Paul in the motives and inspiration between the mashups. The pretentious explanation: Kanye’s tweets are more or less raw id (unfiltered, portraying base [...]
Posted on: Aug 5, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
MAD Magazine rejection letter to Tom Richmond
MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has posted a rejection letter he received from MAD Magazine back in the early 1990s. There’s something to be learned in how to reject somebody from that letter.
Posted on: Jul 29, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 14 Comments
“Being Bob” starring cartoon editor Bob Mankoff
A funny (somewhat predictable video) starring New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff on what it’s like to be him.
Posted on: Jul 8, 2010, Section: Magazine cartoons, video, Comments: 1 Comment
