Cartoonists

Poster above is by Giselle Sarmiento. SVA—the School of Visual Arts— holds a yearly mini comic-con for its senior class Fresh Meat.  SVA has been a hotbed...

The Beat has been reporting over the last few weeks on Ty Templeton's severe heart attack and I'm pleased to report that he's...

The Pulitzers, awarded for excellence in journalism, were announced yesterday, and the winner for cartooning was Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Finalists were...

Cartoonist Ty Templeton—generally considered one of the funniest people of his generation—is in stable but critical condition after suffering a heart attack wife, KT Smith reported on Facebook. Templeton, 52, suffered the attack yesterday but in an update today she reports he's in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, but expected to be taken off of it tomorrow.

There are a lot of comics events going on around town tonight but here's a pretty cool one, especially if you'd also like...

This exhibit of works from Craig Yoe's original art collection has already garnered stellar accolades - tonight you can see why. And that's not...

By and large, American comics are exercises in external action.  Rare is the superhero who ends up blighted by some existential crisis and is...

Today is a day to send shout-outs to the Center for Cartoon Studies, located in White River Junction, VT and recognize it's many good deeds. While my shout out should be a loving essay on how teaching comics has had a strong effect on storytelling and how the bucolic yet isolated campus in rural Vermont allows students to focus in on making comics, or the print room or the other great things about the faculty which includes James Sturm and Steve Bissette, I don't have time for that. Instead I will just direct you to Rob Clough's series looking at the WORK of CCS grads and spotlight a few of them:

April Fools? Or totally cools?

Beloved comics figures Jen Vaughn is leaving her marketing position at Fantagraphics, and Tom Spurgeon has her exit inerview: VAUGHN: The plan was to stay...

After a four year hiatus, a new issue of Sammy Harkham's acclaimed Crickets is coming at the end of April. You can pre order...

Photo by Luigi Novi. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons This weekend's SC Comicon will feature a tribute to artist Jeremy Dale who...