Hilary Campbell, Liza Donnelly, Philip Witte, Caroline Cash, Matt Groening
Hilary Campbell Becomes a Contributor to Hometown Paper
Known by most of the world as New Yorker Cartoonist Hilary Campbell, she is known to most of us as Sonoma Valley local, Hilary Campbell. Hilary visits frequently and considers Sonoma her second home. Because of this, and her incredible talent, it is with great excitement that we entered into an agreement with her to print her comics in the Sonoma Sun! Watch for a new comic every issue.
Alyssa Conder of The Sonoma Valley Sun interviews new contributing cartoonist Hilary Campbell.
Hilary lived in Sonoma until 2009, when she graduated from Sonoma Valley High. The day after she graduated, she moved to SoCal … It was in New York that she realized she wanted to be a cartoonist. She was working odd jobs and began submitting cartoons to the New Yorker weekly. It took a year for them to accept her first piece.
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Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson Talk
The Lincoln Theater is excited to present a unique and enriching event set to take place on Thursday, July 25 at 7 p.m. “An Evening with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson” will feature The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly alongside renowned historian Heather Cox Richardson in an intimate conversation about women cartoonists, American history, and Liza’s new documentary film.
The Boothbay (Maine) Register brings news of an upcoming conversation with cartoonist Liza Donnelly.
Liza Donnell is an acclaimed cartoonist and writer, renowned for her work with The New Yorker. Her cartoons offer a humorous and poignant take on everyday life, politics, and social issues. Liza’s work has been widely published and recognized for its impactful storytelling. In this special conversation, led by local author and historian, Heather Cox Richardson, Liza, known for her wit and unique perspective, will share insights from her illustrious career and attendees will get a rare glimpse into the making of her new documentary film, exploring the lives and contributions of women cartoonists.
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The Wit of Witte
While working up to 60 hours a week practicing insurance and business litigation, Witte carved out a little spare time for a few passion projects. He wrote a children’s book and compiled a few articles for legal publications. The book wasn’t published, but he met a publisher who asked him if he could write novelty joke books about aging. Witte had never written a joke in his life at that point, but he has always practiced the “fake it till you make it” rule. The two books were published in 1999 and in 2006, respectively.
The ABA Journal profiles cartoonist Phil Witte.
During the day, Witte would mull over court proceedings, and as soon as he was out of the office, he would switch gears to consider how relationships, life experiences, childhood and dreams could be funny. Much of it has to do with the visual incongruity, like a bear in a bed. He was done with joke books but realized if he combined his gag-writing skills with drawing, he could be a cartoonist again.
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Caroline Cash’s I Am a Comic
“The more I draw, the more I admire other cartoonists,” says Caroline Cash. In this month’s installment of Drawn to MoMA, the Philadelphia-based cartoonist, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and VICE, explores the process of immersing herself in the visual worlds of her artistic influences.
Caroline Cash creates a graphic journal entry about her cartooning influences for MOMA.
“It can be helpful to look at what others have done and see some of the choices they’ve made—to see what resonates with you and what doesn’t,” she says. “At the core of it all, I see my relationship with these comics as that of student to a teacher.”
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A Hell of a Way to Start a Career
Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of the most iconic names in animation history, but he actually got his start writing a weekly comic strip titled Life in Hell. This comic ran from 1977 to 2012 and, for decades, was the purest way to tap into Groening’s biting, satirical sense of humor.
MSN digs up a 10 month old Collider profile of cartoonist Matt Groening.
Back in 1977, when Matt Groening started drawing Life in Hell, he found the strip to be the perfect creative outlet, so much so that when The Simpsons came along, he latched on to it even harder. In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Groening said, “I’d think about the comic strip all week, spend a day drawing it, and then start thinking about the next one. It was my complete and total focus. Then The Simpsons came along to preoccupy me, and I decided to see how long I could keep the comic strip going… I also liked the idea of having one slice of my creative output being completely solo, unlike TV animation.”
You’d think a paper in Sonoma would know it’s Charles SCHULZ and not “Charles Schultz.”