Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, has won the 2010 Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning With a Conscience for a series he did last summer portraying the pressures and difficulties for the poor in Indianapolis. (Read my report on his series) Judges said they found his series entitled “The Path to Hope” “extraordinary […]
Knoxnews.com talks to Jimmy Johnson, creator of Arlo & Janis, about his career in comics and specifically his work with his strip. Unlike some other strips whose characters remain permanently young, the family in “Arlo & Janis” has aged. “They haven’t exactly aged chronologically. I figure it’s about one cartoon year to every three calendar […]
The Ventura County Star has interviewed Berkeley Breathed about his career in comics, children’s books and movies. The film uses motion capture. How cool does that look in “Mars Needs Moms” and are you happy with the film overall? The film is beautiful ? as they say, they put the money on the screen. More […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched a Visiting Artists Blog to showcase the artists-in-residence and visiting artists who come to talk about their art. ht: Tom Spurgeon