NPR’s Scott Simon interviews Art Spiegelman who has a retrospective book coming out this week called Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps From NPR: It’s axiomatic now that comics have gone from being kids’ stuff to, in some cases, adults only. These days, comics are recognized as a real artistic form, one that […]
There’s nothing better than a well crafted editorial cartoon unless the well crafted cartoon runs on the front page. Or even better than that is when it IS the front page. Last Thursday’s Philadelpia Daily News did just that for a cartoon by their editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. Here’s the full cartoon without newspaper masthead. […]
Kudos to New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for showcasing the growing number of women in comics. From Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog: “I was given the opportunity ahead of time to select the presenters for each award to be given,” Donnelly tells Comic Riffs, “and I decided to choose all cartoonists who are women. More […]
GoComics continues to build an impressive list of comics on the internet. Debuting today is Maria Scrivan’s Half Full.
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond takes on the following question in a “I’m not a laywer, but a cartoonist” fashion: I know from reading your blog that a caricaturist can use caricatures of celebrities to display their work, but cannot sell them due to the celebrity “owning” their likeness, and that it is not worth […]
The New York Times profiles cartoonist, author, song-writer Sandra Boynton. LONG HOURS I normally come to the office around 8:30 a.m., and aside from taking a long walk or yoga and eating, I will be at work until midnight or 1 a.m. I work all the time because I really love what I do, as […]