Becoming a great comedian or cartoonist doesn’t happen overnight. As with many professions, it takes tremendous commitment and practice, a bit of failure and some luck along the way. For Bob Mankoff ’66, these were all part of his journey to becoming a prominent cartoonist and cartoon editor for major publications such as The New […]
By high school Robert Ariail was the school paper cartoonist, inspired by his 10th grade English teacher who introduced him to Pat Oliphant and other notable artists. The principal canned his first cartoon. “My first taste of the editor/cartoonist relationship,” said Ariail. He landed his first job with The State the month he graduated from […]
Kearney grew up in a radical FDR New Deal household in New Sharon, Maine, a town of 1,400 people. He still speaks a distinct Maine dialect and spins a good yarn. “(My family) were radical, supporters of socialists, FDR, and New Deal, and I grew up in that milieu of labor democratic politics and we […]
William Hamilton and The New Yorker, the animated adventures of Prince Valiant, Bill Gallo, Romero’s Axa, Jay Stephens interview, the dark side of book publishing, Brian Fies, and why cartoons are still worthwhile. I may have some doubts about the cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker for the past quarter century as to […]
Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios has the images where they can be supersized and also adds more biographical information. Book Jacket Bios is an occasional blog about writers and artists. These biographies and other images come from an invaluable treasure […]
The September 25 issue of The New Yorker saw Kyle Bravo debut as one of two new cartoonists to the magazine. Michael Maslin at the time noted: Two newbies: Amelia Cossentino, and Kyle Bravo. They are the 12th and 13th cartoonists brought into the magazine’s cartoonist stadium this year, and the 138th and 139th cartoonists […]
Signe Wilkinson is widely acclaimed and celebrated for her remarkable contributions as an editorial cartoonist at The Inquirer and the Daily News. With an illustrious career spanning over 35 years, Wilkinson has established herself as a prominent figure in the world of cartooning, garnering numerous accolades, including the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Despite the adjectives the […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons… Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for […]
For 30 years, Houston-based cartoonist Mary Lawton submitted her work to The New Yorker. For 30 years, she received a series of rejection notices, most of them quite polite but with the same gist: thanks, but no thanks. Occasionally the rejections came with a nice note: “I’m sorry.” She took this as an encouraging sign […]
Borgman began drawing weekly cartoons for the school newspaper, where the thrill of others seeing his work grew. A week after graduating from college, Borgman started as The Enquirer’s editorial cartoonist. Victoria Moorwood at The Cincinnati Enquirer profiles cartoonist Jim Borgman. (hat tip: Lynn Larkin) Borgman and ‘Zits’ writer Jerry Scott went from friendly acquaintances […]
The Staunton News Leader is part of Gannett’s USA TODAY Network, and so their comics page will now consist of that newspaper’s choice among a selection of comics as handed down by headquarters in Gannett’s effort to standardize the group’s funnies. Unfortunately Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by local cartoonist John Rose, which The News […]
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz returns to The Canton Repository today as part of the USA TODAY Network’s comics pages standardization resolution, the strip is a component of their Group 2 of comics. As today is also the anniversary of Peanuts’ October 2, 1950 debut, The Repository found it fitting to highlight the comic strip […]
note: The Daily Cartoonist has no idea if other USA TODAY Network newspapers will follow and run profiles of local newspaper cartoonists; it is our hope that more will take up the banner, and so we add “Part One” to our header. Prior to the USA TODAY Network standardizing their comics pages tomorrow a couple […]
Ithaca N.Y.—“My country is under a dictatorship, so even if you don’t want to talk about politics — politics is everywhere.” Pedro X. Molina, renowned Nicaraguan cartoonist, has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent for his work as a political cartoonist. That work has continued since Molina fled his home during a […]
‘Red and Rover’ cartoonist, based in Edmonds, looks back on career Brian Basset has drawn newspaper comic strips for decades. Now he’s preparing for the next phase of his career. If you are like me the Everett Herald headline and subhed shrieks that Brian Basset is retiring. Rest assured that is not the case … […]