Industry news for the professional cartoonist
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 19 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2024. These inductees include 12 deceased comics pioneers and 7 living creators. The deceased greats are Creig Flessel, A. B. Frost, Billy Graham, Albert Kanter,…
The Society of Illustrators has announced the artists entering their class of 2023 Hall of Fame. Among the inductees is New Yorker cartoonist Helen E. Hokinson. From the Society of Illustrators profile: Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (1893 – 1949) is best known for her New Yorker cartoons depicting the daily lives and social scenes of the…
Cartoonists Charles Addams and George Booth will be inducted into the 2022 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame on November 3, 2022. Charles Addams George Booth The other inductees are Emory Douglas Wendy and Brian Froud Reynold Ruffins Sarah Stilwell-Weber
Dale Messick and Floyd Norman are the comic artists inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame this year. Known as the “Grand Dame of the Funnies,” Dale Messick … for creating the popular adventure comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter. Debuting in June of 1940, it was an immediate hit. Each…
Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the New York Daily News, is being called out for a racist cartoon about New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Chief among those decrying the cartoon are Evelyn Yang, wife of the candidate, and the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Alliance. From Evelyn Yang’s Twitter account: From the…
Marshall Ramsey began his career at the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon (sample above). His post-college career led him first to Pope High School in Georgia, where he was a janitor who rolled around a barrel with his diploma attached. After a six-month “pity party” and a Sunday sermon about the parable of the talents,…
Multiple sources reporting the New Yorker cartoonist and Reuben Award-winner Roz Chast is to be inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame at this year’s New York Comic Con.
Congratulations to The Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel who will be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. From the The Indianapolis Star: Nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate, Varvel counts graphic-novel projects “Path to Hope” (2010) and “The Father Factor” (2012) among his career highlights at The Star. The former addressed child poverty,…
You’ve seen them on Facebook or even participated yourself – the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS wherein if challenged, you dump a bucket of ice water over your head and challenge three others to do the same within 24 hours as well as donate money to ALS Association. Yesterday, Nick Galifianakis threw down the challenge…
The National Cartoonists Society announced that Bunny Hoest and John Reiner will be honored with the Gold Key Award at next year’s Reuben Award Weekend and thus becoming inducted into the NCS Hall of Fame. From the announcement: Bunny Hoest is the writer of several cartoon series, including The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade and Howard Huge,…
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston was inducted into the International Women’s Forum International Hall of Fame this last month. Lynn joins several high profile, successful women – a list of who’s who in media, politics, entertainment. In her acceptance speech, Lynn mentions that as a kid she never felt connected with the…
The world’s largest comic collection on the move. The largest comic collection in the world has been successfully moved to its new home in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Having just moved to a new home, I can appreciate to a small degree the logistics, coordination, planning and hard work this effort must…
Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy is one of two staffers being inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. Jeff was selected by the Press Club of Cleveland. Jeff was a finalist this year for the Pulitzer Prize and has been with the Plain Dealer since 1993.
Among the 2013 inductees to the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame are Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and Krazy Kat creator George Herriman. Members of the Hall of Fame are artists “recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration.” Other artists inducted include: Ted CoConis, Sandy Kossin, Murray Tinkelman and Arthur Rackham
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants is the number one book most likely to be challenged for removal from a school and library in America according to the annual study released by the American Library Association. The Huffington Post reports that it’s due to “offensive language, unsuited for age group”. From the Post: “It’s pretty exciting to…