Big Fat Whale creator Brian McFadden will be the commissioned cartoonist in the New York Times’ Week in Review section starting Sunday. According to Matt Bors Brian will the featured cartoonist for “a few months” and before the space is rotated to other cartoonists. “The strip will cover something topical, but it can be anything […]
Long time NCS and AAEC member Jim Orton has passed away at the age of 81. Jim, for a time, did editorial cartoons for Roll Call. According to the obituary, Jim had a varied career. He was born June 11, 1930, in Oneida, NY, and was high school valedictorian in 1947. He later received his […]
I’ve mentioned before my love of Pixar movies and angst over Cars 2 (based on the trailers). From early reviews, I’m not the only one. Russ Fischer writes over on Slashfilm.com: ‘Cars 2’ Will Be Pixar’s First ‘Rotten’ Movie I certainly take no joy in noting this, and curiously enough I don’t think I’ve seen […]
TIME magazine has listed their top 25 animated films of all time. Here’s the link to the start (#25). You have to go through 25 pages to get to the number one. I’m going to spare you a bit of time by giving you 25-6. The last five you’ll have to visit their site. 25. […]
Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith took first place in the Best of the West journalism contest. The Best of the West is an award honoring professional journalists in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Second place went to Mike Keefe of the Denver […]