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With Steve Breen, Georgia Dunn, Ralph Hulett, Hartley Lin, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, E. C. Segar, Scott Stantis, James Thurber, and more.
SMERCOMICS raises 200K for Children’s Crisis Treatment Center
From Michael Smerconish YouTube channel:
Thank you to all who purchased Smercomics 2024. Last night I received copy No. 1, and handed over 100% of the profits (and then some) to CCTC. Book sales earned $185,251, which I rounded up to an even $200k.
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2024
From New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen favorite 2024 cartoons from the magazine’s Instagram account:
When it comes to the cartoons we posted on Instagram in 2024, you readers relished jokes about spinach, marriage, laundry, politics, chess, puking, pollen, cats, driving, “The Bear,” and vegan witches, among other things. Meanwhile, Spotify informs me that in December I was into Cottagecore Cowboy Country Folk, but that in July I was digging Coastal Grandmother Old School Soul Motown. We contain multitudes. And, lucky for you, The New Yorker has published many multitudes of cartoons, including some of your recent favorites that I invite you to enjoy, again, here.
Midcentury Christmas Cards of Disney Artist Ralph Hulett Go On Display
From Chris Nichols at Los Angeles Magazine:
Sometime after Coca-Cola (but before Thomas Kinkade) decided what an American Christmas should look like, artist Ralph Hulett was designing Christmas cards. The angular, modernist cartoony collection currently on view at the Hilbert Museum of California art dates mainly from the 1950s when Hulett was a background painter at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. The new exhibit Merry and Bright: The Christmas Cards of Ralph Hulett opens Monday, November 9, at the Hilbert Museum of California Art.
Hulett painted backgrounds and worked on features from the time he arrived at the studio to work on the first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released in 1937. He contributed to all the features and shorts of the company’s golden age, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia, all the way through the 1960s and 70s with The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Robin Hood. “Ralph’s name is on every great Disney feature. The guy is a legend,” [Jerry] Beck says.
If you can’t make it to the exhibit The Animation Guild has a gallery of Ralph Hulett Christmas art.
They Say It’s Your Birthday, It’s My Birthday Too Yeah
December 8, 1930 saw the birth of two cartoonists.
Well, blow me down! On January 17, 2024, Popeye turned 95 years old and the mortification of missing that special date is staggering! However, we are determined to make it up by celebrating the 13oth birthday of Elzie Crisler Segar, his creator, who came into this world Dec. 8, 1894, in Chester, Illinois.
At 13th Dimension Peter Bosch celebrates the 130th anniversary of E. C. Segar‘s birth by profiling him and Popeye.
The Spill celebrates James Thurber every Thursday (“Thurber Thursday”) but as his 130th birthday falls on a Sunday this year, we’ll blow a trumpet in his honor today.
While at Ink Spill Michael Maslin notes it has been 130 years since James Thurber was born.
A New Calendar Year Begins Soon – mark your important dates
Georgia Dunn reminds me…
that it is (past) time to order our 2025 calendars.
Zazzle has the Breaking Cat News calendars as well as more from Hogan’s Alley, Swamp, and others.
Amazon has even more comic and cartoon calendars. The best sellers seem to come from Andrews McMeel.
feature image from KENS-TV
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