The Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest in Marceline, Missouri is celebrating its 20th year. This year’s guest speakers include writer and illustrator Ken Alvine, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly, sculptor and art director Ken Melton and “Thatababy” syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Paul Trap. Click here for more info and speaker bios. https://www.facebook.com/events/268339700451960/ Radio interview about Toonfest. […]
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a follow-up piece over at the Washignton Post Comic Riffs section to the Serena Williams editorial cartoon controversary by talking to a few professionals about how they would have handled illustrating an unhappy Serena Williams. From the piece: DARRIN BELL (King Features): “It’s not hard to caricature a black person. Just don’t […]
Cartoonist and worship leader Lorraine Williams has passed away. After moving to Homer, she attended and graduated from Alaska Bible Institute in 1985. That same year, she married her husband, Darren Williams. Moving back to California in 1987, she became an adored worship leader with a wonderful community of friends. She was sent back to […]
Updated with today’s (September 16) Las Vegas Review-Journal introductory article, but mostly because I couldn’t resist the above fantastic cartoon of Ramirez arriving in Las Vegas. “It’s good that, naturally, I’m an evil, demented individual,” Ramirez jokes. We think. “That helps — having a twisted sense of humor.” As such, Ramirez tends to provoke laughter […]
Today’s enlightened column comes from a former publisher and editor at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune. From the piece: One of my fondest memories as a child is flopping down on the living room rug with my sisters, the Sunday newspaper spread out in front of us as our father read the color comics out […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958. I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company […]