The day in political cartooning
§ Gawker predicts hard times for political cartoonists if Obama is elected. Part of the problem is that caricaturing the African-American candidate could draw...
Bill Leak on the mend
Great news from down under, as cartoonist Bill Leak, who was in a medically induced coma for three days after experiencing a severe head...
Charles Crumb remembered
This remembrance of outsider artist Charles Crumb, who committed suicide in 1994, and was the brother of the cartoonist, has been linked...
24 Hour Comics Day remembered
Last Saturday saw cartoonists all over the world put pencil and pen to the grindstone for this year's 24 Hour Comics Day. Since the...
People are talking about…
§ Berkeley Breathed talks about the end of Opus:
While fans won’t know the penguin’s fate for two weeks, Breathed did say the character...
BATTLING BOY preview
Paul Pope previews a page of his long-gestating GN for First Second, BATTLING BOY:
>In Batman Year 100, I had room for a couple of...
Australian cartoonist in a coma
Famed Australian cartoonist Bill Leak, an editorial cartoonist for The Australian as well as a highly regarded portraitist, is in a coma ...
Meanwhile, in Indie land…
§ Jesse Reklaw has been cartoon-blogging his tour.
§ The Daily Cross Hatch presents cartoonists cartooning about how they are getting to SPX, including...
Kirkman and Bendis battle for the very soul of comics
So anyway, the Kirkman/Bendis debate thingie. Perhaps it was just because everyone was still amped about the previous night's Obama/McCain matchup, but everyone came...
Pope, HAPPY CORP. B-day and DKNY Jeans launch pics
Last Thursday Paul Pope celebrated both his birthday and the launch of his "2089" clothing line for DKNY Jeans at THE HAPPY CORP headquarters...
The Cartoonist’s Ten Commandments
Via The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
1 You will not surrender your talent for the rest of your life.2 You will not...
Political comics roundup
§ Matt Shepherd remixes McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More. (In case (like The Beat) you don't have Frank Miller's oeuvre memorized, the captions...
