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Busy week in Baltimore/DC area

Over on the AAEC web site is a good list of cartoon related events happening in the Baltimore area beginning October 12. Events include:

Small Press Expo featuring Matt Bors, Brian McFadden, August Pollak, Ted Rall, Mikhaela Reid, and Ben Smith.

International Comics Art Festival featuring Jules Feiffer and an exhibit of Herblock work.

Cartoons & Cocktails hosted by Mike Luckovich.

Exhibit of KAL at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (which I’ve talked about earlier).

For more information, including links to these events, visit the AAEC site.

Garry Trudeau becoming today’s Bill Mauldin?

I read with interest the story posted last week regarding Doonesbury.com adding a blog to its site featuring entries from soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and then another story linked from Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter about Garry’s decision to use his B.D. character as a way of highlighting the sacrifices soldiers are making overseas and it occurs to me that perhaps today, Garry Trudeau is our generation’s Bill Mauldin.

Thanks to Aaron Taylor

I want to take a moment to thank Aaron Taylor for once again assuming the reins of the Daily Cartoonist to make sure news was posted everyday while I was away on vacation. I knew before I left that there would be some big announcements (like Boondocks not returning), and I equally knew that Aaron would catch it all and get it posted.

Thank you, again, Aaron.

Berryman Award entry deadline

I’m assuming that anyone who’d be interested in entering this competition is already informed of the coming deadline, but for the sake of complete coverage…The deadline for the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning is this Friday (Oct. 6).

Open Season takes top spot on opening weekend

Open Season opened as the number one movie in America on it’s debut weekend.  According to “Movie Web,” Open Season grossed $23 million knocking Jackass Number Two to, well, number two and edging out new movies The Guardian and School for Scoundrels.Open Season’s executive producer is Steve Moore.

Daryl Cagle visits Wabash College

Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle wrapped up his visit to Wabash College with a public lecture Thursday night, during which he talked about the craft of cartooning, the business of running a syndicate, and how, sooner or later, cartoonists make just about everybody angry.

Music inspired by ‘Peanuts’ to air

As a fan of music, Charles Schulz named Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in a strip, which started a correspondance and inspired the composer to create music based on Peanuts characters. The latest performance is being recorded for PBS to air on stations in October.

Cartoonist Ted Rall discusses his new book

Editorial cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall talks about his new book with fellow political cartoonist and reporter J.P. Trostle. The book, “Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?,” is described by Rall “as a blend of graphic journalism, travelogue and analysis.”

Cartoon exhibit at Library of Congress

“Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature” will run from Nov. 2 to Jan. 27 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. On display will be original artwork from Rube Goldberg, Bill Mauldin, Pat Oliphant, George Herriman (“Krazy Kat”), Lynn Johnston (“For Better or For Worse”), Winsor McCay (“Little […]

Tom Toles returns to Buffalo

An interesting Q&A of Washington Post editorial cartoonist in anticipation of his return to Buffalo deliver the keynote address at the â??Challenging the New Censorshipâ? seminar presented by the University at Buffalo and the Erie County Public Library. Tom Toles was the editorial cartoonist at the Buffalo News before filling the vacancy at the Washington […]

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