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  Animator vs. Cartoonist: Drawing Looney Tunes Characters From Memory. The gang tries to draw Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Marvin The Martian from memory. How well would -you- do? A BuzzFeed Video.            

Matt Davies was, for a second time, awarded the Herblock Prize, and much as I dislike awards in general, I like this one for two reasons: One is that it’s kind of an inside job that consistently honors people who live up to Herblock’s traditions and standards. I mean, they don’t require Nobel laureates to […]

Wwwwhhhirrrrrr…tic….tic…..tic……tac   Merrie Melodies, Silly Symphonies, and Looney Tunes Meet The Queen’s Cartoonists, a New York jazz band bringing back cartoon music. As I watched The Queen’s Cartoonists slip and slide through decades of cartoon music in a matter of minutes, with the animations projected on a large screen behind them, I followed a captivated […]

$25,000 prize to the winner. For more details, go here. bit.ly/2Ihhy5x 

This last weekend was the annual Reuben Awards where the National Cartoonist Society bestows their best of in various categories and the big prize for Cartoonist of the Year. This year, the Reuben Award went to New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. In the division awards the winners are: Magazine Feature / Magazine Illustration Tom Richmond […]

FYI for those who like to enter contests. From Slate: Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. (Last year?s winners: Taiyo Matsumoto and Emily Carroll.) The creators of two exceptional comics will be awarded $1,000 each. Winners will be selected by Slate Book Review editor Dan […]

The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio have announced a third “So Ya Wanna Be A Cartoonist” contest. The 10-week contest is slated to launch by February 11. The contest prize has a financial award to the winner and a chance to be mentored by professional cartoonist in the studio who will also help […]

I told you last week The Cartoonist Studio was sponsoring another cartoon contest – two actually – but this time on a political theme. They’ve now posted all of the FAQs and contest rules. The prize on this go around is an advertising split from the advertising fees collected during the contest. The first contest […]

On the heels of their second annual “So You Want to Be a Cartoonist” contest earlier this spring, The Cartoonists Studio will launch two politically themed contests in June and August with winners of both contests announced the day before this year’s presidential election. More details will be posted at a later date, but here’s […]

The Cartoonist Studio’s second annual “So Ya Wanna be a Cartoonists” has declared a winner. This year the winner goes to Greg Wallace, an illustrator and caricature artist, who’s feature Nothing is not Something bested over 125 other cartoonists over 10 weeks of voting by fans and professional cartoonists. As the winner, Greg’s feature will […]

The gentlemen over at The Cartoonist Studios have sent me more news about their second annual cartooning contest. The contest will kick off on February 6th and a big change from last year is that there will be more weight given to contest judges (panel of professional cartoonists and syndicate representative) and less on the […]

Okay, now that I have your attention with the headline, it’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Six Chix cartoonist Stephanie Piro is talking about how cartoonists approach drawing breasts in comics. She’s posted a small gallery of various cartoonists drawings of women (all safe for work) and she’s holding a contest to determine if […]

The Washington Post’s America’s Next Great Cartoonist Contest has a winner. Olivia Walch, 20, of Fairfax Station, Va. is the contest winner, impressing the judges with her “Imogen Quest” cartoon and winning over readers. She emerges as America’s Next Great Cartoonist after our panelists picked 10 finalists, celebrity judges critiqued entries, then thousands of readers […]

Good luck to the finalists.

Say that headline five times quickly! Comics Riff’s Michael Cavna has announced his comic contest has been whittled down to five. Finalists are: Hoxwinder Hall by Daniel Boris. Real Time by Bob Erskine Forever Endeavor by Thomas Mullany Stupid Inventor by Zachary Snyder Imogen Quest by Olivia Walch The final five now submit Sunday cartoons […]