Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away. JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography: Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being […]
There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial. Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings. Hennessy […]
Over on reddit.com, this post getting some love. Twitter: @Garfield
Berkeley Breathed restarted “Bloom County” in 2015 and he’s now onto his third collection of those new strips. IDW will release “Bloom County: Best Read on the Throne” this September. It’s available for pre-order here. From the IDW site: Collecting year three of the Bloom County relaunch begun in 2015! The stakes are higher, the punchlines are […]
The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is to receive their “Visionary Woman Award”. From their site: Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern […]
The Smithsonian.com jumps in on the Olivia Jaimes helmed “Nancy.” From the story: The Revamped ‘Nancy’ Is the Perfect Comic Strip for 2018. The comic’s first woman artist mines her own girlhood experience to make the eternally 8-year-old, cookie-loving grouch even funnier.
Let’s start with a salute to fortuitous timing by Wiley Miller, whose Non Sequitur by, I assume, happenstance hits the comics pages while Wells Fargo’s incompetence, venality and lousy response is in the rest of the newspaper. In another bit of interesting timing, NPR has just started a series on the housing crisis with the […]