Last week during the Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention the organization presented Guy Badeaux (aka Bado) and Dale Cummings with their George Townsend Awards (aka The Townsie) proclaiming them as Cartoonist(s) of the Year. As the Canadian ACI explains the award is a “two part award, one for the best Anglophone cartoon and one for […]
For 30 years, Houston-based cartoonist Mary Lawton submitted her work to The New Yorker. For 30 years, she received a series of rejection notices, most of them quite polite but with the same gist: thanks, but no thanks. Occasionally the rejections came with a nice note: “I’m sorry.” She took this as an encouraging sign […]
The world is full of weighty matters, but we’re going to, in the words of Eddy Arnold, make the world go away and get it off our shoulders. And, yes, I know it was written by Hank Cochran, but this is being written by me and we’re not picking nits today. Okay, we are. But […]