Great news last week – a couple of old favorites are returning to print. The Comics Journal and nemo: the classic comics library are two completely different takes on comics. I would say “bigger and better than ever” but The Comics Journal seems to be downsized a bit, even from its old magazine format. But […]
The North Shore News out of North Vancouver, B.C., has a fun story about Lynn Johnston’s work with a young art student. From the story: “But the trouble is it’s so much fun to just draw the characters because there’s a spirit in you that is the character,” says Johnston. “If you are drawing a […]
Per Variety, “LaCucaracha” and editorial cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has been named the cultural consultant for Nickelodeon’s new animated series “Los Casagrandes.” The series is a spinoff of Nick’s “The Loud House” and follows the life of a 11-year-old boy with 10 sisters. Alcaraz had served in a similar role on Pixar’s Academy Award-winning “Coco.” @laloalcaraz […]
Erik Pederson at the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune does a short profile of Korean-American cartoonist Dami Lee. Lee’s new book from Chronicle, “Be Everything at Once” hits the streets on August 7th. From the story: So are her parents wishing she had a more traditional career path that didn’t include cartooning? “Not really, because in […]
The Comics Reporter and Telesur are reporting that comic character Mafalda is being dragged into the abortion debate in her native Argentina. Mafalda cartoonist Quino has released a statement: “Images showing Mafalda wearing a blue scarf, which symbolizes opposition to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy law, are spreading. I don’t authorize it; it doesn’t represent my […]
There has been a boatload of editorial cartoons on Trump’s threat to start yet another unwinnable land war in Asia, but Matt Wuerker‘s raises the issue of whether it’s a classic blunder, an attempt to distract, or, perhaps, a blundering attempt to distract. Wuerker is going for (C) a blundering attempt to distract. (BTW, for those […]