In a E&P story: In a poignant, wordless sequence that began Monday and ends Saturday, McDonnell showed a dog named Katrina trapped on a roof in flooded New Orleans. First she looks over the watery landscape, then she howls, then she slumps on the roof in despair. Rescuers finally arrive, and Friday’s strip shows Katrina […]
If your a comic collector, you may want to visit the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla California. LA JOLLA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 11, 2005–Jim Davis, the creator of the world’s most famous cat, Garfield, will have an art show of one-of-a-kind signed works at the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla, California, 1162 Prospect Street. A wide […]
Youd think after several years you’d recognize your own drawing style. David Simpson, who was dismissed Thursday, said he found an unsigned copy of the cartoon in his creative files and mistakenly believed it was his own. He said he redrew the cartoon, which then was published in June 7 in the Tulsa World.
A new strip called “Dog eat Doug” will launch November 14. The cartoonist’s web site was down, but promises to be back up before the launch.
Michael Ramirez, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist for the L.A. Times, is the latest victim of “restructuring”. Cartoonist Michael Ramirez, The Times’ cartoonist since 1997, will leave the paper at the end of the year and will not be replaced.
Congratulations to John Deering of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for Editorial Cartooning. I tried to find a news story covering this, but could only find his name among listings of the winners.
Congrats to Jan Elliot. The 10 year mark happens November 20. “I try to create a comic strip that respects non-traditional family situations, that has empathy for imperfect people, that has empathy for people with less than enough money and less than enough time and sometimes less than enough patience,” Eliot says from her home […]
The pen is mightier than the sword, but a gun trumps a pen any day. ARLINGTON, Texas — A woman who wounded an intruder hiding in one of her closets says she shot his leg because she didn’t want to kill him. Link
Newsday is covering the The ‘New Democrat’ From Hope” conference at Hofstra University. Featured at the conference are editorial cartoonist talking about their cartooning of the Clinton presidency. Making fun of Clinton required little heavy lifting. In fact, says Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and a cartoonist himself, on the spectrum of […]
The Daily Review has a story about the success and impact of Li’l Abner by Al Capp. Last Saturday was Sadie Hawkins Day, created by Capp as a role-switching race in which females become the aggressors in the dating game (something unheard of at the time) and which launched a once-a-year series of girl-asks-boy dances […]
As reported by E&P: Keith Knight is teaching the next “True Confessions of a Professional Cartoonist” workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco Dec. 3. Knight is the creator of “The ‘K’ Chronicles” and “(th)ink” comics. His self-syndicated work appears in newspapers, magazines, and on the Web.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is covering the Produce Marketing Association convention in Atlanta where Scott Adams was a speaker. Most of the story is not about the convention, but about the number of things that are changing for Adams, like: Lost ability to draw with his right hand He’s getting married He’s lost is voice (kind […]
The Christian Science Monitor has a story about the future of print journalism. His refrain is far from unique as newspaper newsrooms cope with a new round of cutbacks. Daily newspapers in New York, Boston, Houston, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and elsewhere are laying off or buying out hundreds of newsroom employees, as well […]
Comic strip character Asterix takes on a figurative foe. After years of bashing the occupying Roman army, the indomitable Gauls have turned their attentions to the stars in their latest adventure, Asterix And The Falling Sky. But it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to realise that the story is actually a none-too-subtle attack […]
Interesting article on how comics are received by men vs. women. Women and men are often perceived as having differences in their senses of humour but, until now, there had been no neurological evidence for such suspicions. The new brain scanning study showed that although men and women tended to agree on which of the […]