Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Sorting through the responses to yesterday’s SCOTUS decision raised a number of questions, starting with whether I should wait for the slowpokes, which I decided against because the weekend approaches and not only would they be that much slower, but my readership declines on Saturdays and Sundays and I wanted to strike while the iron…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — An Italian company did not get away with contesting the copyright of the Caped Crusader on Wednesday, as the EU’s second-highest court rejected a claim the logo was too generic. Courthouse News Service reports on the win for the owner: The comic creator has held the rights to use the…
Ramsey, editor-at-large of Mississippi Today and editorial cartoonist, has been working in news for over two decades and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He shared the story of his career and some of his cartoons with the Starkville Rotary Club on Monday. Marshall Ramsey gave a talk and Abigail Sipe Rochester for The Columbus…
In the 1990s Dave Blazek and John Gilpin were working for the Philadelphia Inquirer when they thought it would be a good idea to combine their talents, Gilpin as artist and Blazek as humorist, and try out a comic panel. According to sources the panel began 25 years and a couple weeks ago. I couldn’t…
Ted Richard’s family has released a notice of his passing: The family of Ted Richards wishes to make his friends and associates aware that Ted, the cartoon artist and tech marketing and design innovator passed away peacefully at age 76 on Friday, April 21 after a bout with lung cancer. Ted Richards was prominent as…
Ann Telnaes reminds us that this is World Press Freedom Day. Telnaes is active in the topic year ’round and you’ll note that she includes words, images and sound in her media roundup. But I’d also point out, in case you missed it, that the visible brushstrokes and jagged edges suggest art made by a…
Oz Black. Plus Thomas Nast, Paul Conrad, Ted Rall, Bill Bramhall, Ann Telnaes, Herblock, Zapiro, Edmund Duffy, Barry Blitt and more Here in Lincoln by Oz Oswald Ragan “Oz” Black studied art at the University of Nebraska from 1918 to 1923. He went on to document local news 365 days a year for nearly four…
Odd timing at Non Sequitur (AMS) this morning, as Danae might well have watched the most popular cable news channel last night, but she’d have likely absorbed a less promising message about career paths. For those not operating on long lead times, however, the firing of Tucker Carlson called forth a torrent of intentional commentary,…
Underground comix cartoonist Ted Richards has passed away. From Last Gasp publisher Ron Turner: Talked to Miranda Lee Richards today… She let me know her father, the cartoonist Ted Richards had passed away on Friday of Lung Cancer… Ted was the creator of Dopin’ Dan comix, The Astral Outhouse and was one of the infamous…
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 15 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2023. These inductees include 11 deceased comics pioneers and 4 living creators. The deceased greats are: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green, Jay Jackson, Jeffrey…
James Swinnerton, Bill Watterson, Henry Jackson Lewis, Leonard Starr, Walt Disney and Company “Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to die in peace – and found so much beauty to paint that he crossed up the doctors and got well.” Years before, in 1892, Hearst had plucked the 16-year-old artist out of the California Art…
The MoCCA Fest is this coming weekend to NYC and the National Cartoonists Society will be represented. Saturday April 1 will see Bob Eckstein, Mike Cavallaro, Ellen Liebenthal, Ruben Bolling, and Hilary Campbell manning the booth and Sunday April 2 has Mike, Hilary, and Ellen again plus Isabella Bannerman, Robert Pollack, and Pat Higgens making…
Bill Bramhall takes a shot at New York City’s new and improved “We (heart) NYC” logo. I won’t dispute him on whether the place has too many rats, because I’m not a city person to begin with and NYC is not high on my list. If I had to live in a city, my first…
Chip Bok apparently went to the drawing board as soon as the election was called, but before Lightfoot responded. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election. But I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks,” Lightfoot told supporters shortly before 9 p.m. That’s how it’s done on the blue side…
Following Saturday’s mention of the time Boss Tweed was arrested in Spain with the aid of a Thomas Nast cartoon acting as a mug shot, Friend of the Blog Ann Telnaes retrieved the cartoon with which Spanish authorities identified the prison escapee and posted it on-line. I knew the story, but the Harper’s clipping offered…