Cartoonists

Daniel Best interviews Gene Colan as the legendary artist recuperates from a broken shoulder. ... I should be thinking more of retirement, I suppose, but I don’t even think about retiring. I need to draw, I love it, so why should I give it up. The link includes information about other ongoing efforts to supplement Colan's income via auctions and so on.

Although political cartoonists are an endangered species -- as are the newspapers that once carried them -- two have won a bit of...

Dave Itzkoff at the NY Times uncovers the story of  a vault of 600 pages of unpublished Jack Kirby concept art.  After leaving DC...

This weekend before MoCCA will be the second Drink & Draw Like a Lady, hosted by Hope Larson & Raina Telgemeier. Both ladies also...

Caeyetano Garza writes to say that his Ignatz Award-winning webcomic The Year of the Rat is now available in book format. It's a surreal...

With Salinger gone, you would have thought that Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson was ready to assume the mantle of the literary world's...

Via the Jack Kirby Museum, the tale of Jack Kirby's foray at costume design for the stage: In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking...

Hans Rickheit's THE SQUIRREL MACHINE was one of the year's most dazzling surprises -- an extremely creepy and imaginative tale that made an indelible...

http://www.youtube.com/v/rcrqHYPKUMo&hl=en_US&fs=1& It's about time cartoonists got embroiled in the fun, easy-to-understand debate over health insurance currently going on. Julia Wertz , author of Fart Party,...

The Boneville blogs reports that The Cartoonist will be airing on some PBS TV stations over the next few weeks. The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith,...

Google is doing one of its birthday tributes to E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye. It's the 115th anniversary of Segar's birth. The Guardian...

by Michel Fiffe Marcos Martin is one of the few modern cartoonists whose work I unconditionally follow. Although his art...