A collection of comic strip and cartoon adjacent news items. John Wagner, A Life in Comics John Wagner is the creator of the infamous British comic character Judge Dredd and wrote the eponymously named comic strip for The Daily MAil from 1981-1998. According to John Freeman: the strip originally appeared in the form of a […]
Comics Kingdom (CK) has issued submission guidelines for cartoonists attempting to get placed on the CK digital platform – a great step toward being distributed to print newspapers by King Features Syndicate. King Features Editorial Director Tea Fougner introduces the submissions guidelines with a few do’s and don’ts. Friends, we are so excited to introduce […]
Caption contests are not new. They’ve been around since the late nineteenth century, and the newspapers and magazines that sponsored them enticed people to participate by offering cash prizes. In 1912, The San Francisco Call offered twenty dollars for the best title to a drawing of a woman in a cooking apron sifting tiny, well-dressed […]
Comics artist Steve Lieber kicked things off with advice to young cartoonists as if he “were looking at your work in person” and telling the would-be cartoonist what they needed to hear. Then Jim Zub and Patrick Brosseau added advice to young comic writers and letterers. Free advice from Comic Pros to Young Cartoonists! Your […]
Wallace the Brave gets my, to borrow a phrase, Comic Strip of the Day endorsement. © William Wilson A week late. Wayno‘s Saturday roundup is already up for this week’s Bizarro panels but I still want to point out his entry from last Saturday. © Bizarro Studios Wayno says: I enjoy doing clown gags, […]
A flair for whimsical drawings and a keen sense of humor aren’t enough to cut it as a professional cartoonist. With the number of daily and weekly newspapers dwindling in the information age, there’s more competition than ever to land a recurring spot in a paper’s print edition. Making a full-time living–and in most cases, […]
Reading The Funnies as a Family There’s a secret to the comics page, though. The secret is, you don’t need to be a kid tor even have kids to enjoy them. Just as most comic characters don’t age, the audience age group doesn’t change. In fact, now and then, some jokes might just fly over […]
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners of the tenth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize Award in both the Print Comics and Webcomics categories. Each of the 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award winners will receive a $1000 prize and a Wacom One Creative […]
For those who have access to a newsstand that sells the April 2022 issue of Washingtonian – grab it. Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes on her journey from The Brave Little Toaster to a Pulitzer Prize. As told to Bill O’Sullivan. [T]he second season of Woke – debuting April 8th on Hulu – delves […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering… from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.
WQED Education is offering a second season of an innovative and fun project – cartooning. Renowned Pittsburgh cartoonist Joe Wos takes students of all ages (and the young at-heart) through the creative steps of drawing cartoon characters, while sharing educational facts on the cartoon subjects. He’ll also teach a few artistic terms during each online […]
© DC Comics The Jewish co-creators of the comic book superhero Superman will be posthumously inducted into the Jewish American Hall of Fame (JAHF) in a virtual ceremony that will take place in November. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster developed the superhero as well as his companion characters Clark Kent, Lois Lane and others. It […]
Cartographer Kevin Cannon draws a lot into his cartoon maps. But he may have outdone himself with his Minnesota Star Fair poster. From the MinnPost: In late spring 2019, Minneapolis-based cartoonist and illustrator Kevin Cannon learned that he had been chosen as the Minnesota State Fair’s commemorative artist for 2020. Unfortunately, due to The Covid, […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones has written an in-depth review and comparison (“it’s long. I wrote it over three days”) of Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Apple’s iPad. To be specific, my review is of a Surface Pro 6 (16 GB) and an iPad Pro 12.9 (1 TB) as for how they apply for drawing political cartoons […]
© Condé Nast The Argentine artist Liniers is now settled in Vermont, but he knows New York City well. He knows the rhythm of the seasons; and he knows, too, that life begins underground, especially when there’s a whiff of spring in the air. We recently talked to the artist about his work, city life, […]