Looking back at the art of cartooning with Bill Mauldin, RL Crabb, Jeff MacNelly, Ian Jones, and Sydney Jordan. Rob Stolzer proclaims: I consider Bill Mauldin to be one of the most influential cartoonists of the 20th century, coming into WWII as a kid cartoonist and leaving the Mediterranean Theater as someone who changed the […]
Cartoonist Sam Gross has passed away. Saturday Review, Argosy, True, Good Housekeeping, Rogue, Gent, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse, Punch, Harvard Business Review, Parenting Magazine, Smokers Magazine, The American Bystander, Comopolitan, and so on. And, of course, The New Yorker. Jason Chatfield in his paean to Sam: I’m devastated to hear that today, one […]
Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in four ultra large panels, writes and illustrates of her friendship with the late, great Vermont cartoonist Ed Koren in a wonderful tribute as seen in Seven Days. Seven Days editorial cartoonist Tim Newcomb also honors Ed with a funny cartoon of Ed entering heaven. Also: Seven Days publisher Paula Routly […]
New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren has passed away. From VTDigger: Edward Koren, who spent more than six decades delighting readers of the New Yorker with his unmistakably shaggy and joyous cartoons, died Friday at his home in Brookfield. He was 87 years old. Koren’s wife, Curtis, confirmed his death to the New York Times. sold […]
Beloved cartoonist Al Jaffee has passed away. From The Washington Post: Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was as adept at creating wacky cartoon gags as he was at producing caustic social commentary, and whose drawings, he cheerfully suggested, helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans, died April 10 at a […]
“I don’t like the area, I love the area. I find it magical,” he said. Jules Feiffer moved not too long ago and Otsego County reporter Daniel Francis paid him a welcome-to-the-neighborhood visit. Though voicing his opinions and challenging society and the current political climate remain the backbone of his career, Jules must now contend […]
Jules Feiffer and I were born 94 years ago in the Bronx, two months apart. We both grew up to be terrible at sports, and we both started to draw characters from the comics when we were 8 or 9 years old. We both became cartoonists, and last year, both of us ended up in […]
Famed British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has many honors – as detailed in his entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Throughout his career, Blake has been covered in prizes. His illustrations for Russell Hoban’s ‘How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen’ won the Whitbread Award (1974), while his work in Michael Rosen’s ‘Sad Book’ […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. It appears a few books were missed last month so we’ll start with November releases. The Art of C.C. Beck: […]
George Booth, who died last month, and Lee Lorenz, who passed earlier this month, were honored by The New Yorker in the Christmas 2022 edition of the magazine. George got the cover and The New Yorker interviewed daughter Sarah for the “Cover Story.” Michael Maslin, who on Mondays notes the drawing contents of the new […]
Portrait by Pete McDonnell for The Petaluma Argus Courier From NPR: Cartoonist Charles Schulz died in February 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday paper. But the characters he created and developed over the course of five decades still endure, in the form of reruns, beloved TV specials, a movie […]
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat features a special Peanuts section today celebrating the 100th birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. An added bonus for those of us not in the PD’s hard copy distribution area is they are making it accessible online for free today. Added bonus: every article has a slideshow. Among the articles […]
Was thinking to hold onto these Charles M. Schulz/Peanuts articles until the actual 100th anniversary of his birth (November 26), but the items are coming in faster than Snoopy in a Sopwith Camel. So… The white-spotted dog, who became “the first beagle on the moon” in a series of Peanuts comic strips in 1969, is […]
The above art by Jules Feiffer is from a September 2022 edition of Dan’s Papers, but the interview conducted by Dan Rattiner for his podcast is this month new. Dan asks Jules about a few of his more than a dozen awards – the Academy Award-winning Munro, his special George Polk Award, and his Pulitzer […]
George grew up on a farm in Fairfax, on the north end of town, but his extraordinary artistic talent led him east, where he made a name for himself in New York as a famous cartoonist. The Atchison County Mail reports the death of famous favorite son George Booth. George Booth, who made a […]