Baby Boomers: The Nib Death Issue (#1) is Here
Since Mike reminded some of us how old we are, let’s prepare ourselves with the recently released first print issue…
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Weekend Quick Hits – Cartoonists
Beloved cartoonist Nicole Hollander reflects on a life after ‘Sylvia’ in a 30 minute radio interview. above Nicole Hollander and…
Comic Strip Cartoonist #7 and Hogan’s Alley #22
Comic Strip Cartoonist #7 Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose interviewed Rina Piccolo says goodbye to Tina’s Groove Justin Thompson and…
Mike Holmes’ True Story becomes Real, Dumb
For six years, from 2007 – 2013, cartoonist Mike Holmes contributed “True Story” to the Halifax alternative newspaper The Coast….
My thoughts on the documentary Very Semi-Serious
I know I’ve mentioned the documentary “Very Semi-Serious” here before. It will air next Monday on HBO. I was kindly…
Read excerpts from Charb book, finished two days before Charlie Hebdo attack
The Independent has published a long excerpt from a book (“Letter to the Islamophobia Frauds Who Play into the Hands…
Weird Al issue of MAD on shelves
There’s a lot of positive press surrounding the release of this last issue of MAD Magazine with Weird Al as…
Interviewed: Weird Al and MAD Magazine’s John Ficarra talk about the Weird Al edition
The Huffington Post’s Bryan Young talks to Weird Al and MAD Magazine’s John Ficarra about Weird Al’s Guest Editor edition….
New York Times: New Yorker?s Magazine Covers Shift From Polite to Provocative
Interesting article from The New York times on the changing cover of The New Yorker. At The New Yorker?s Midtown…
Al Jaffee donates life’s work to Columbia University
Al Jaffee, perhaps best known for his three-panel fold-ins for MAD Magazine, is donating the vast majority of his cartoon…
Bob Mankoff memoir to be published next spring
A memoir penned by New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff is set to be released in March of next year….
Help fund MAD documentary
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1438570989/when-we-went-mad-a-documentary-of-ecch-ic-proportiThis looks like a great project. My name is Alan Bernstein – I am the Co/Producer and Director of the…
60 years of MAD Mag analyzed by Fast Company
Susan Karlin looks at the new coffee table book “Totally Mad” about the last 60 years of MAD Magazine for…
Newsweek to cease print publication; going 100% digital in 2013
Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast – which owns Newsweek, has announced that December 31 will be the…
New Yorker cartoon banned on Facebook
The New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff responds to a cartoon by Mick Stevens that was banned on Facebook because…