Tag: Cartoonists
Bernie Wrightson is in hospital but doing well
He was just at HeroesCon, running around, smiling and putting this amazing work (done with Scott Hampton) in the auction (I know it doesn't photograph well but it had everyone amazed), but according to...
Cartoonist Anders Nilsen is taking on Amazon with two new projects
Anders Nilsen—Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, Big Questions, Rage of Poseidon—is surely one of the finest cartoonists of the last decade. Big Questions won lots of awards and helped further the cause of...
RIP: Charles Barsotti
Famed New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti has passed away at age 80. He was 80. Barsotti had been suffering from brain cancer since last year, and he died quietly at home yesterday.
With...
Derf ends THE CITY comic strip
On his blog yesterday, cartoonist Derf announced the end of his strip THE CITY after 24 years. It's a miracle any alt-weekly cartoonist was still going, but Derf's humorous look at Cleveland life had...
Comics’ secret economy: animation hiring boom
While walking around TCAF a ton of conversations I overheard involved boarding, backgrounds and other animation type gigs. One publisher even wondered aloud what would happen if Adventure Time went off the air. ...
TCAF panels in audio: Brubaker, Phillips, Robbins, Johnston, Beaton and more!
Jamie Coville has done his usual amazing job of recording panels from TCAF, including several from the librarian and educator conference, Trina Robbins talk on Nell Brinkley, and the Doug Wright Awards. He also...
Help Seth Kushner Find a Bone Marrow Donor
Photographer and comics writer (Schmuck) Seth Kushner is one of the really good guys and just a few weeks ago he was spotted at MoCCA FESt happily manning the Hang Dai Studios booth and...
A few notes on SVA’s Fresh Meat 2014
I meant to get this post up many days ago but it's been that kinda week. Last Friday I went to SVA's comics/zine fest Fresh Meat where seniors—and some undergrads—learn how to sit behind...
MoCCA Award of Excellence Winners announced — and here’s where you can get them
Saturday night at a rockin party at the Socirty of Illustrators, the winners of the 2014 MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence were announced. Winners were all on sale at the festival and were...
There’s a movie about Bryan Talbot…and here’s the trailer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMq4DsUezg&w=560&h=315]
There is to be a documentary about Bryan Talbot, the creator of he Tale of One Bad Rat, Luther Arkwright, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, Grandville and many more. I can't think of...
New Yorker cartoonists spotlighted in delightful 60 Minutes segment
http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_player.swf
Even in a world where major media coverage of comics personnel is a daily habit, this profile of The New Yorker's cartoon process by Morley Safer is a delight. The occasion is the release...
Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson interviewed on the state of cartooning
Yep you head me right. This weekend the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and LIbrary in Columbus Ohio will open two incredible shows,
The Irresistible Force Meets The Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective and...
