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The Daily Cartoonist

Industry news for the professional cartoonist

October 3, 2006

Busy week in Baltimore/DC area

Alan Gardner01 mins

Over on the AAEC web site is a good list of cartoon related events happening in the Baltimore area beginning October 12. Events include:

Small Press Expo featuring Matt Bors, Brian McFadden, August Pollak, Ted Rall, Mikhaela Reid, and Ben Smith.

International Comics Art Festival featuring Jules Feiffer and an exhibit of Herblock work.

Cartoons & Cocktails hosted by Mike Luckovich.

Exhibit of KAL at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (which I’ve talked about earlier).

For more information, including links to these events, visit the AAEC site.

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Joel Pett lectures on cartooning during Archive’s Week

Alan Gardner01 mins

Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will be the featured speaker for the University of Kentucky Libararies’ Special Collection and Digital Programs Archives Week.  Archives Week (running the week of Oct. 9) is a celebration of 50 years of archiving Kentucky’s newspapers in their library.

Joel is expected to talk about his career and influences.

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Garry Trudeau becoming today’s Bill Mauldin?

Alan Gardner13 mins

I read with interest the story posted last week regarding Doonesbury.com adding a blog to its site featuring entries from soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and then another story linked from Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter about Garry’s decision to use his B.D. character as a way of highlighting the sacrifices soldiers are making overseas and it occurs to me that perhaps today, Garry Trudeau is our generation’s Bill Mauldin.

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