Listing Toward the End of the Year
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Lists and Best-Ofs will be coming fast and furious. Here’s a few before the rush.
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2021
Do you use Instagram? Or does Instagram use you? Whatever the answer is, let’s hope that it results in personal gain for Mark Zuckerberg—he’s had a tough time recently and really deserves a win.
cartoon by Paul Noth and © Condé Nast
The New Yorker has a gallery of their cartoons that garnered the most Instagram likes.
The cartoons aren’t necessarily from 2021 (my favorite is from 2010).
Multiversity Year in Review: Best Cartoonist
Some comics are a team effort, with various folks chipping in parts both large and small to make a comic get in front of you. But sometimes, there are folks who take on the lion’s share of the responsibility, writing and illustrating – and sometimes coloring and/or lettering – their own work. These are, in some ways, the purest expressions of creativity we see in comics. Today, we honor those doing the heavy lifting.
Multiversity picks the best of the year. Categories for Cartoonist, Webcomic, and Digital First Comic.
All the (primarily comic book) categories can be gotten from this page.
Best Movies and TV Shows Based on Comic Strips
Comic strips are usually pretty simple. Oftentimes they are only a handful of panels. And yet, sometimes they are still adapted into more meaty forms of storytelling. There have been several movies and TV shows based on comic strips created over the years. This includes “The Snoopy Show,” which is coming to Apple TV+ in 2021. Beyond that show, here are some more films and TV shows based on comic strips. We didn’t overload any specific strip, though, so that this isn’t all “Peanuts” and “Garfield.”
The only 2021 thing about this Yardbarker list is it came out a day ago.
2021 Additions to the National Film Registry
Two-color Technicolor had already been employed in several Hollywood features in the late 1920s and early ’30s (including “The Vagabond King,” “King of Jazz,” and “Under a Texas Moon”), but it paled against the rich hues available through the new three-strip Technicolor process. Walt Disney was the first filmmaker to utilize it with this short “Silly Symphony” cartoon, whose vibrant hand-drawn animation charmed audiences … “Flowers and Trees” is also notable for being the first animated film to win an Oscar.
© Disney
Again the only 2021 thing is that this is the year these films were voted in (via CBS).
It’s the Summer Solstice!
Behind the Lines – The Year in Political Cartoons 2021
In a year where Australians sought consolation in statistical models and predictions, one thing became clear: you just can’t predict the future.
And that’s exactly what’s on display at this year’s Behind the Lines political cartoon exhibition.
The annual exhibition offers up a satirical summary of the year that was in politics with 126 different artworks from more than 40 cartoonists.
© Glen Le Lievre
The Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s article about the annual exhibition down under.
In a time of uncertainty, it’s good to know some things never change.
One is that politicians will, day in, day out, provide ample fodder for political cartoonists to comment on and ridicule.
This was borne out at the launch of Behind the Lines – The Year in Political Cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy on Tuesday.
Curated, for the third time, by Holly Williams, this year’s Behind the Lines selection was the biggest to date, with 126 cartoons from 42 cartoonists.
The Canberra Times article with an emphasis on Political Cartoonist of the Year Glen Le Lievre.
In addition to some talented familiar faces, led by our Political Cartoonist of the Year, Glen Le Lievre, Behind the Lines is introducing several first-time contributors into the mix who reflect our dynamic democracy. Curator Holly Williams presents her highlights from this year’s exhibition.
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