Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud are co-chairs; Connie Zeigler on Brenda Starr and Dale Messick; Phil Witte – counsellor, cartoonist, critic; Barbara Shermund biographer Caitlin McGurk; Terry Laban – graphic novelist; Beginning: Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. Telgemeier, McCloud chosen as National Library Week honorary chairs From the American Library Association: CHICAGO — Award-winning author and […]
Playboy cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Don Madden has passed away. Donald Lewis (Don) Madden October 14 (24?), 1927 – June (9? 10?), 2024 Don’s brother Tom revealed the death of the cartoonist and paid tribute to him: Don Madden Left This Week for Studio in Heaven, But My Brother’s Cartoons Will Live on Forever. […]
From Interviewer William Schwartz: From 2006 to 2020, Norm Feuti wrote and drew Retail, a syndicated strip surprisingly low on wacky antics, preferring to deal with the mundane farce of retail employees stuck between intractable corporate policy and arbitrarily unreasonable customers. Feuti spoke with me about this and the other comics of his career. The […]
Children’s author-illustrator Mike Thaler has passed away. Michael Charles (Mike) Thaler October 8, 1936 – March 23, 2024 From the obituary: Mike Thaler’s creative genius captured the imaginations of millions of children with a story called The Teacher From the Black Lagoon. It blossomed into a favorite Scholastic series consisting of 66 titles and selling […]
Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series. Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take […]
The Society of Illustrators announced William Joyce and Dahlov Ipcar winners of Lifetime Achievement Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were established in 2005 by past chairs of The Original Art. Nominees must be judged to have a body of work that documents an innovative and pioneering contribution to the field of children’s book illustration, and […]
(Adam Sacks) (Joy of Tech) So I got on Threads (comicstripoftheday) and yet, unlike Scrooge, my life has not been transformed. I don’t much like it, because it seems crowded, but maybe that’s because I don’t much like looking at things on my phone because they seem crowded. I’m assuming Threads will eventually come to […]
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: […]
When Christopher Weyant ’89 studied at Gettysburg College, he did not anticipate that he would end up publishing cartoons in The New Yorker and The Boston Globe. Weyant grew up in New Jersey. When he studied at Gettysburg College, he majored in political science and economics. The Gettysburgian Magazine profiles alumni Christopher Weyant,cartoonist for The […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. We start with a set missed this past Summer. Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strip Collection – Volume 1 […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Nothing Echoes like an Empty Mailbox (more about the USPS book) Ink, Blood, and Linseed Oil Celebrating 30 […]
The government of People’s Republic of China has disciplined those it deems responsible for “tragically ugly” illustrations that appeared in an elementary school math book. In May of 2022, Photos of the pictures went viral on China’s social media. Related hashtags had been viewed more than 4bn times by Monday and millions of comments were […]
French cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Jean-Jacques Sempé has passed away. Jean-Jacques Sempé August 17, 1932 – August 11, 2022 From The Guardian: Jean-Jacques Sempé, who illustrated the much-loved Little Nicolas series of French children’s books, has died aged 89. “The cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé died peacefully [on] Thursday evening, 11 August, 2022, […]
Author-illustrator-cartoonist Raymond Briggs has passed away. Raymond Redvers Briggs January 18, 1934 – August 9, 2022 “iconoclastic national treasure” From The Guardian: Raymond Briggs, the writer and illustrator who delighted children and inspired adults with bestselling cartoons and picture books, died on Tuesday morning aged 88, his publisher Penguin Random House has said. Ranging from […]