Tex Minos wins 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has presented the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to Sheridan College animation major Tex Minos, who has a...
GIve me money part 2: Creators for Creators grant submissions are open
At this year's Image Expo one of the most buzzworthy announcements was the Creators for Creators Grant, and submissions have just opened up and...
Give me money Part 1: 2016 Will Eisner Scholarship submissions open until 5/6
The Society of Illustrators is presenting the 2016 WILL EISNER SCHOLAR, an honor that comes with a $5000 grant. The scholarship is open to...
Preview: Lucy Knisley Explores Marriage in “Something New”
Lucy Knisley is rapidly becoming a household name in the world of memoir, alternating between travelogues such as French Milk and Displacement and more thematic memoir work...
Nice Art: Jillian Tamaki’s print for Gosh! Comic’s 30th Anniversary
Gosh! Comics is one of London's premiere comics shops, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. And to mark the occasion they're selling a print...
Jack Ohman wins the 2016Pulitzer Prize for Editorial cartooning
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday – Hamilton won one, along with the hearts of everyone, everywhere– and the winner in the editorial cartooning...
To do: Roz Chast’s chuckle-filled exhibit at the Museum of the CIty of New...
Well this is pretty cool, and has flown mostly under the radar of my usual comics sites: Roz Chast has an exhibit up at the Museum of the City of New York. It runs from April 14th until October 9th, so you have plenty of time to go see it...and you should. Best known for her 2014 award winning 2014 memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Chast's droll cartoons capture urban foibles of dread, fatalism and UES (upper East Side, to non New Yorkers) neuroses with a levity that barely masks how deep they cut. One of the exhibits mentions that one of her biggest influences was Charles Addams, and it easy to see how Addams' loose penwork and gallery of characters informs her work. She also shifted his emphasis on the lugubrious and horrific to internal anxieties over health, parental guidance, mid-life crises and geographic uncertainty.
Sonny Liew on “Charlie Chan Hock Chye”, Mapping Your Path & Creative Appropriation
The Beat sat down with cartoonist Sonny Liew to chat about The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye – hisvnew graphic novel recently published in the US discussing Singapore’s tumultuous history after WWII through the work of prolific Singaporean cartoonist Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Nice Art: Kyle Baker’s variant cover for Black Panther #3 AND FREE COMICS
Via this month's solicits. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Kyle a bit and interviewing him for an upcoming "More to come"...
TCAF guest list expanding with even more international cartoonists
TCAF is coming down the pike, with dates of May 14th and 15th, and the guest list includes the usual bounty of international domestic...
As cartooning becomes a female dominated profession, will rates get lower?
As you may have noticed, female cartoonists are dominating sales charts (well graphic novel sales charts, anyway) and awards and current cartooning classes are anywhere from 50 to 75% female. It seems that a majority of the most notable "emerging cartoonists" are women, and a lot of folks have been joking that it's hard to find up and coming men in comics.
Tolja! WonderCon cracking down on copyright violators
The great unsanctioned print crackdown we predicted a few weeks ago may be roaring down the highway. The following letter has been sent to...
