The National Cartoonist Society has released its schedule for the September 12, 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards. Streaming broadcast begins at10am Saturday, September 12 at NCSFest.com Official Welcome to NCSFest 2020 from NCS President & thank you’s. From Panels to Publishing (90 mins) Guests: Mark Tatulli, Terri Libenson, Maria Scrivan, and Rob […]
Most comics historians, in writing about Jackie Ormes, note her Torchy Brown comic strip for which she is justly famous. But Ormes’ biographer Nancy Goldstein notes that “it is Patty-Jo that the readers of the Courier whom I talked to seem to remember most vividly.” Goldstein continues: That a girl child expressed wisdom, exposed folly, […]
“That New Carl Smell” cartoonist Carl Skanberg was profiled in a feature story on MLB.com. From the Michael Clair piece: Skanberg is a lifelong White Sox fan who has a long history of covering the team’s exploits through his comics work. After losing his job right before the pandemic hit, the veteran cartoonist decided to devote […]
Today (September 1) cartoonist Jackie Ormes is being honored with a Google Doodle slideshow. Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson on August 1, 1911, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She taught herself to draw at an early age and showcased her skills with a page of cartoons in her high school yearbook. After graduation, she entered […]
Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come […]