Some cartoonist news.
“I do oil paintings of horses,”
“A friend I’ve done Super-Pet commissions for asked if I’d do an oil painting of Comet. So I gave it a try and he was happy with the result.”
Comet made his first appearance in 1961’s Adventure Comics #293, which featured the debut of the Legion of Super-Pets.
Dan Greenfield showcases a painting by Mary Worth artist June Brigman. Full painting at 13th Dimension.
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The cartoonist who had no fear – walking the line between art and trash.
The Pompidou Centre is currently running an excellent exhibition on modern comics, which selects as its starting point the countercultural explosion of the Sixties.
In his early work, [he] lifted the cute look of early 20th-century cartoons from the Fleischer Brothers, honed from a job at a greetings card company, and gave them an LSD-fuelled twist. One story depicts a spate of mysterious meatball attacks that are thrown from off-camera and change the personalities of their victims.
James Riding at Unherd critiques the influence of underground cartoonist R. Crumb.
Fact check:
In one strip from Zap Comix titled “You may not think it’s funny, but I’ve got a morbid sense of humour”, a bespectacled artist resembling Crumb guffaws and sketches a woman as she is crushed by a bus.
Morbid Sense of Humor originally appeared in Despair and then reprinted elsewhere, but never in Zap Comix.
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A Newspaper Comic That Shows a Changing America.
[He] talks about getting the strip into print in the early 2000’s and the ways his characters keep evolving [and] explains how hard it was to get [his strip] picked up for syndication and how all newspaper comics artist face an up-hill battle when it comes to getting published. He also talks about his routine for creating new strips every week, how he develops his characters, and real-life issues that inspire the strip’s political commentary.
Roland Young, Jr. at Slate interviews Darrin Bell. Or YouTube audio only. Or read the transcript here.
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A blend of [“one of today’s great New Yorker cartoonists”] classics and never-before-seen material, this collection gives the people what they want: universal health care. Okay, not that, but something almost as important: a delightful book, chock-full of over 150 cartoons about everything from a dog’s encounter with a genie to the Tin Man’s trip to Jiffy Lube.
Funny Times interviews cartoonist Asher Perlman.
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‘The UWS Is the Cool Table at School’
[He] grew up to become an avid museum-goer, a successful illustrator, cartoonist, and author of new book called “Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums.” He is a frequent contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker and West Side Rag.
West Side Rag interviews its cartoonist Bob Eckstein about his new book.