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News Briefs for December 21, 2009

Animation
» Some suspect the Homer Simpson character is a caricature inspired by Irish comic strips of the late 1800s – dumb and drunkard.
Children’s Books
» Stephanie McMillan has put together a video preview of the children’s book she’s illustrating. The book is entitled “Mischief in the Forest”

Editorial Cartooning
» David Willson, the editorial cartoonist for the Palm [...]

Posted on: Dec 21, 2009,  Section: Animation, Children's Books, Interviews, mobile, Comments: 3 Comments

2009 Annie Award Nominees announced

The 2009 Annie Awards nominations have been announced by ASIFA-Hollywood. The award recognizes the year’s best achievements in animation. The features competing for Best Animated Feature include: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells and Pixar’s Up. Here is the full list of [...]

Posted on: Dec 2, 2009,  Section: Animation, Awards, Comments: 0 Comments

2009 Will Eisner nominees announced

This year’s Will Eisner nominees have been announced. The Eisner Awards are each year at the San Diego Comic-Con to recognize the best in comic book, graphic novel and digital comic art.
This year’s nominees are:
Best Short Story

“Actual Size” by Chris Ware, in Kramers Ergot 7 (Buenaventura Press)
“Chechen War, Chechen Women,” by Joe Sacco, in [...]

Posted on: Apr 14, 2009,  Section: Awards, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Comments: 5 Comments

2009 Joe Shuster Awards nominations announced

The 2009 Joe Shuster Awards nominations have been announced. The Shuster Award recognizes the contribution and work of Canadian cartoonists in the comic industry. The nominations are:
Artist

Marc Delafontaine – Les Nombrils, Tome 3 : Les liens de l’amiti’e (Dupuis)
Dale Eaglesham – Justice Society of America #12, 14-15, 18-22 (DC Comics)
David Finch – Ultimatum #1-2 (Marvel [...]

Posted on: Apr 6, 2009,  Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments

News Briefs for February 17, 2009

» After 20 years, The Simpson’s has a new intro. I’m glad to see the inclusion of more characters, but I still prefer the classic intro.
» uClick (the tech company behind Universal Press Syndicate) is the number #1 mobile comic distributed for iPhone and iPod Touch. uClick CEO was on CNNMoney touting his iPhone funny [...]

Posted on: Feb 17, 2009,  Section: Animation, Awards, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 4 Comments

David Silverman wins Animation Feature Award

This year’s NCS division award for Animated feature goes to David Silverman for his work on The Simpsons Movie. David was the director of The Simpsons movie as well as The Road to Eldorado and worked on Pixar’s Monster’s Inc.

Posted on: May 24, 2008,  Section: Animation, Awards, Reuben, Comments: 41 Comments

NCS Division Award candidates announced (mostly)

Most of the NCS Division Awards candidates have been posted. Here is the run down so far.
Animation Feature

Brad Bird, “Ratatouille”
Sylvain Deboissy, “Surf’s up”
David Silverman, “The Simpsons Movie”

Television Animation

Sandra Equiha &Amp; Jorge Gutierrez, “El Tigre: The Adventures, of Manny Rivera
Stephen Silver, “Kim Possible”
Richard Webber, “Purple and Brown”

Book Illustration

Nancy Beiman, “Prepare to Board”
Sandra Boynton, “Blue [...]

Posted on: Mar 31, 2008,  Section: Awards, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 3 Comments

Clay Bennett closes a busy year as AAEC President

E&P has a great story on Clay Bennett’s year as president of the AAEC (whose term ends this tomorrow).  Some of the things I know he had to deal with was the number of cartoonists that lost their jobs or took buyouts: Michael Ramirez, Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher, Stacy Curtis, Tim Menees, David Simpson, and Larry Wright each walked out the door of their respective newspapers – only Michael has regained a staff cartoonist position.

Posted on: Aug 30, 2006,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments

Dan Piraro’s “Baloney” show reviewed by LA Times

I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA.
In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail [...]

Posted on: Apr 13, 2006,  Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments

Last remaining Reuben Award nominees posted

The National Cartoonist Society has posted the last remaining nominees for the Reubens. I’ve updated my previous posting that listed the nominees, but here are the last two categories that were not available earlier:
Animation Television:
GLEN MURAKAMI, Teen Titans
DAVID SILVERMAN, The Simpsons
DAVE WASSON, The Buzz on Maggie
Comic Books
PAUL CHADWICK, “Concrete, The Human Dilemma”
ERIK LARSEN, “Savage [...]

Posted on: Apr 7, 2006,  Section: Awards, Cartoons, Television, Comments: 0 Comments

NCS nominees posted

The National Cartoonists Society has posted the nominees for each of the Reuben award categories.
Here is what has been announced so far:
Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year

“Foxtrot” creator BILL AMEND
“Speed Bump” creator DAVE COVERLY
“Pickles” creator BRIAN CRANE
editorial cartoonist MIKE LUCKOVICH
“Bizarro” creator DAN PIRARO

Other categories:
Advertising Illustration:

ROY DOTY
JACK PITTMAN
KEVIN POPE

Animation Feature:

NICK PARK, Director Wallace & Gromit: [...]

Posted on: Mar 27, 2006,  Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments

Doug Marlette takes the Tulsa World editorial cartoonist slot

The Tulsa World has hired Doug Marlette to take the place of David Simpson as the staff editorial cartoonist.
The Tulsa (Okla.) World has hired Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette, effective Feb. 12.
Marlette, who’s syndicated by Tribune Media Services (TMS), had been working out of North Carolina for the Tallahassee Democrat since the Florida paper [...]

Posted on: Jan 31, 2006,  Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment