The Cartoon Bank is getting into the holiday spirit by offering customizable gifts. All of the new products, which allow corporate gift-givers to expose their “lighter side,” are completely customized with cartoons selected by the company and also feature the company’s branding. The offering includes: A page-a-day calendar with 365 custom-selected New Yorker cartoons A […]
Last Sunday’s Doonesbury used quotes by President Bush back in 1967 while the young Bush was a senior at Yale regarding frat hazing (branding students with a coat hanger). Trudeau tries to tie President Bush’s current stance on torture to his hazing days. The branding, which was exposed by the Yale paper, was first covered […]
The Hartford Courant has a great article on Eric Shansby, who at age 17 was asked to illustrate Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten’s Below the Beltway column. It’s been two years and Shansby is now at Yale and still working with Weingarten. Weingarten tells it differently.”After I talked to his high school journalism class, […]
Today would mark the 83rd birthday for Charles Schulz. The Peanuts creator died in 2000.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi has posted on her blog a review of the National Cartoonist’s Association’s Christmas party in Canada. All party attendees were encouraged to draw something; markers and a stack of paper were provided in a corner of the room. Very cool to see the cartoons accumulate on the wall above the bar (see […]
The Washington Examiner has an opinion article written by Michael Taube about how political leanings sneak into the comics page. Interesting read. Many modern comic strips and one-panel or multi-panel editorial cartoons are also politically charged. In some cases, the direct content of a strip is political, including conservative (Bruce Tinsley?s ?Mallard Fillmore?), liberal (Garry […]
This sounds like fun. More than 20 renowned cartoonists gathered yesterday at a Midtown bar to draw a cartoon mural inspired by a 1976 wall painting across the room that narrowly escaped destruction last year when the bar changed ownership.
I always wondered what cartooning would be like in a nation where your family or yourself could found dead because of a cartoon. According to this article, Iranian cartoonist Majid Amini is doing well (though he says it could be better). TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) — Iranian cartoonist Majid Amini won third prize at the […]
While this blog’s focus is on professional cartoonists, I ran across a posting on the toontalk bulletin board. Lee Nordling, author of Your Career in the Comics will be directing a four day seminar for unsyndicated cartoonists to help them take their creation to a syndicated level. My goal with this seminar is to work […]
A day long cartooning class will be offered in Hingham Massachusetts by John Zaccone. Zaccone will touch upon the three major cartoon formats ? the political cartoon, the single panel cartoon, and the comic strip. But in a certain significant sense, he won?t do it alone. As students explore the process of creating a professional […]
The pen is mightier than the sword, but a gun trumps a pen any day. ARLINGTON, Texas — A woman who wounded an intruder hiding in one of her closets says she shot his leg because she didn’t want to kill him. Link
As reported by E&P: Keith Knight is teaching the next “True Confessions of a Professional Cartoonist” workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco Dec. 3. Knight is the creator of “The ‘K’ Chronicles” and “(th)ink” comics. His self-syndicated work appears in newspapers, magazines, and on the Web.
Comic strip character Asterix takes on a figurative foe. After years of bashing the occupying Roman army, the indomitable Gauls have turned their attentions to the stars in their latest adventure, Asterix And The Falling Sky. But it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to realise that the story is actually a none-too-subtle attack […]
Interesting article on how comics are received by men vs. women. Women and men are often perceived as having differences in their senses of humour but, until now, there had been no neurological evidence for such suspicions. The new brain scanning study showed that although men and women tended to agree on which of the […]
According to Editor and Publisher, Ted Rall will have a weekly radio program in the San Francisco Bay area. Show airs starting on the 13th.