Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar in San Diego; Wayno in Pittsburgh; Steve Bell in London; Bill Watterson in Amazon; High and Middle School Cartoonists in Wisconsin; Hilary B. Price in Massachusetts.
While TDC’s Mike Peterson is giving us “live” reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention (Day 1, Day 2) it took six weeks for us to get Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar‘s Comic Lab report on the Reuben Awards weekend from arrival to departure with special emphasis on the Awards Dinner.
Includes a bunch of behind-the-scenes happenings throughout the three day event.
This year, I was again invited to design a poster for a Pittsburgh Steelers home game. It’s a cool project that hires Pittsburgh artists, and poster sales benefit Artists Image Resource, a nonprofit resource for printing and education.
My poster is for the October 28th Monday night game against the New York Giants. As we approach game day, I’ll reveal the entire design.
Sneak peek from The Pittsburgh Steelers 2024 Gameday Poster page and Wayno with his 2022 poster.
Steve Bell‘s new collection of his newspaper strips If… Stands Up [link added] is described as “a new satirical extravaganza from one of Britain’s best-loved political cartoonists”. Best-loved, that is, unless you are on the editorial board of the Guardian newspaper, and then you are ghosted and dumped like yesterday’s pixels after forty years.
But Steve Bell, who no longer has a regular cartooning gig, owns his own work and so has been able to collect his last six years’ worth of strips for the newspaper in this new book.
Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool catches up with Steve Bell to see what he’s up to these days.
I chatted to Steve, as he sketched his far superior Keir Starmer on the inside pages. About how he has no regular gigs right now, save for a quarterly commission to keep the wolves from the door. His Guardian contract did he well for many year but, man, he still has every power on hand in those hands of his. He remains a tour de force amongst cartoonists and it feels that someone somewhere must have a place for the great man.
You know, the Guardian is now selling The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media, the podcast company. Might the Observer want something a bit old-school to bring Guardian readers over to the austere publication?
Okay, we missed the big discount, though it is still going for a sale price.
But another Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson boxed set still has a deep price cut.
Volume One of The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium is currently 55% off at Amazon.
The WNA [Wisconsin Newspaper Association] Foundation is excited to announce the fourth annual Editorial Writing & Cartoon Contest, which aims to increase civic education and engagement while celebrating the rights established by the First Amendment.
Wisconsin Civics Games Editorial Writing & Cartoon Contest now accepting entries.
The contest is open to all Wisconsin middle and high school students, including home-schooled students. Essays and cartoons should focus on the importance of the First Amendment. Students are encouraged to draw from personal experiences, current events and historical examples.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, and winners will be announced in early January.
First-place winners in each contest will receive $500, second-place winners will receive $250, third-place winners will receive $100 and honorable mention recipients will receive $50. Winning entries also will be published by newspapers across the state.
The 2023 First Amendment cartoon winners and Honorable Mentions for High School (Margot Eck, Zoe Bouboutsis, Tessa Seippel) and Middle School (Kate G., Ella Nerby, Ethan Collins) are shown here.
Back to The Reubens but on the other side of the country.
Cartoonist Hilary Price, who lives in Florence, won the 2023 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society, in August of this year.
Hilary B. Price talks to Carolyn Brown of The Daily Hampshire Gazette about cartooning, writing, and Reubens.
Price draws the comic “Rhymes with Orange,” [link added] which is syndicated to 261 newspapers — including the Daily Hampshire Gazette … Price said that the award is special because it’s chosen by other cartoonists — people who know the particulars and nuances of the job…