Peripherally I watch the magazine market because I enjoy the art, but since magazine gag cartoons aren’t this blogs focus, I’m rounding up some of the news I’m seeing in that market space because I know there are a lot of magazine cartoonists that read this blog: John Donohue is a frequent New Yorker cartoonist […]
Harry Katz, the curator for the Cartoon America exhibit in the Library of Congress, published a book last fall called “Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress” and will be in speaking about his book and signing copies at two times/locations in southern California – first at 1 pm at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium […]
Running Press Books has announced that they have joined with MAD magazine to reprint every cartoon of MAD magazine cartoonist Don Martin over his 30 year with the magazine. The book is entitled “The Completely MAD Don Martin” and will be a two volume set at over 1,000 pages and seventeen pounds. The forward is […]
E&P is reporting that Luann cartoonist Greg Evans will be speaking at the Charles M. Schulz Museum on March 17 to discuss Schulz’s influence on his comic.
Monica Bartoszek, senior editor/operations for the Times Union questioned the perceived practice of commercial product placement in comic strips after a reader mailed her 10 comic strip clippings from a 4-day period which included: Pickles: Feb. 5, iPod The Pajama Diaries: Feb. 5, Barbie Grand Avenue: Feb. 5, Calgon Close to Home: Feb. 6, Target […]
According to Daryl Cagle, Time Magazine has stopped printing editorial cartoons and there hasn’t been any complaints that they’re gone. Regarding their decision, Daryl writes: I have mixed feelings about Time running political cartoons. It is a great venue for our art form, and we want more readers to appreciate editorial cartoons, but Time was […]