Patrick McDonnell’s successful “Gift of Nothing” book is getting some positive press in the Royal Gazette. Although Mr. McDonnell’s 10th cartoon compilation “Who Let the Cat Out: Mutts X” was released in April, “The Gift of Nothing” is his first children’s book. So far it has been well received. “It has been on the New […]
Off topic for the Daily Cartoonist, but I found this funny. A MAN who allegedly robbed a renowned Victorian cartoonist has been caught, thanks to a detailed caricature drawn by his victim. Police said the cartoonist, Bill `Weg’ Green, who is famous for his drawings of AFL Grand Final teams, offered to draw a picture […]
As a cartoonist, what do you do when your intended audience is not in the mood to laugh? Steve Kelley, stand up comic and editorial cartoonist for the Times-Picayune, found himself in such a situation when Katrina hit New Orleans. He has written a very good piece in the Winter 2005 Nieman Reports about his […]
Local cartoonist Tom Garland in Battle Creek Michigan is putting on a 9 week cartooning course called “Drawing Sunny-side Up! Cartooning from the heart.” This class is geared toward kindergarten through fifth graders. “Kids don’t live by rules. They know the stove is hot and that is about it. They have such an imagination, the […]
Eldoni Dedini, noted magazine cartoonist for New Yorker, Esquire and Playboy passed away“If 20th century cartooning is ever looked at seriously,” said Lee Lorenz, former art director at The New Yorker magazine, “Eldon Dedini will be one of the outstanding figures of American comic art.” Dedini was named the best magazine cartoonist four times by […]