It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and what your heirs will do with all those comics. EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE NOT MEMES! Graeme MacKay, “One of the last staff editorial cartoonists still slogging away at a daily newspaper,” discusses the difference between editorial […]
With the imminent release (unless you already got a special edition at the San Diego Comic Con) of Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Hogan’s Alley Tom Heintjes interviews the author. TH: Conversely, we all hit dead ends in our research, always frustrating. Were there questions you had going in that you were unable […]
The 2024 season of KPBS’ Comics culture has kicked off by interviewing Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher. Famed for weirdness, Peter discusses how the weirdness must be a natural occurrence, not forced. Also Peter talks of cartoonists block, his preference to physical (pen and paper) over digital, his love of being able to draw backgrounds in […]
Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So it is a fine time for The New Yorker to review and preview the book and interview the author. My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to […]
Pearls Before Swine comic strip creator Stephan Pastis is returning to Spokane, Wash. and The Spokesman-Review is celebrating the imminent arrival with a series of article highlighting the cartoonist. Ed Condran speaks to Stephen: It’s about the past, present and future when Stephen Pastis returns Tuesday for a Northwest Passages Book Club event at the […]
Darrin Bell’s The Talk reaches bookstore shelves on Tuesday June 6 (though it is already on the shelf at my local Barnes and Noble). Darrin sat for an NPR interview today: The audio interview with transcript is here. DARRIN BELL: I’m having to grapple with whether my 6-year-old son is old enough for the talk. […]
Philadelphia native and cartoonist Robb Armstrong has been making waves and history his entire career. He created his comic strip “Jump Start” in 1989, currently the most widely syndicated daily comic strip from an African American cartoonist in the world. The Philadelphia Sun profiles favorite son Robb Armstrong. After attending Shipley, he went on to […]
What started as the humorous misadventures of the teens from Westview High School eventually morphed into a serialized drama tackling issues such as cancer awareness and teen pregnancy. After 50 years Tom Batiuk will end his Funky Winkerbean comic strip at the end of this month. I like to describe it as starting out as […]
Harry Bliss is ready to retire. At least, he might be. Maybe. Sitting across from a crackling woodstove in the cluttered but cozy wood-paneled living room of his Cornish, N.H., cottage, the 58-year-old New Yorker cartoonist and part-time Vermonter turned reflective as a reporter peppered him with questions about his life and career. Behind a […]
Ricardo Siri Liniers was born on November 15th, 1973, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [T]he comic artist…owes his fame to the series of strips that he has published daily since 2002 in the Argentine newspaper “La Nación”. The project was called “Macanudo” – a word that, in Spanish, means “magnificent”, and “nice”. In “Macanudo’s” strips, there […]
Batiuk Does the Time Warp Again Tom Batiuk begins to bring the Funkyverse and the Crankyverse into sync as Funky Winkerbean winds down and the characters prepare to guest star in Crankshaft. Red and Rover and Brian Comes Over Red and Rover cartoonist Brian Basset will be at Scrawl Books next Thursday to sign […]
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 […]
Liz Montague! Elizabeth Montague is a cartoonist and author known online as “Liz at Large” or simply Liz Montague. She made national news in 2019 for being the first [second*] [third**] Black cartoonist for the New Yorker. Since then she has worked with President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. Open, and Google, where she […]
“I love to draw, it’s as much draftsmanship as it is storytelling, and it’s as much character delineation as anything else.” – Ed Koren Ed Koren continues to make people laugh even as he faces a serious predicament: He has incurable lung cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2020. Koren, 86, is one of […]
… Aragonés contributed to a special edition of MAD, publishing Tuesday, that marks the magazine’s 70th anniversary. The special edition also spotlights Aragonés’s status as the oldest artist currently drawing for MAD. He says he’s been blessed with six fruitful decades at the iconic magazine… Once Aragonés left for New York in 1962, he didn’t […]