Tag: Cartoonists
Video alert: Kagan McLeod and friends revive the Tit for Tat drawing video
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Kagan "infinite Kung Fu" McLeod writes to tell of a cool video project he put together at this year's TCAF: a collaborative drawing vdeo starring McLeod, Paul Pope, David B, Sam Hiti, and...
Al Jaffee archives going to Columbia University
Librarian Karen Green has done it again! She's gotten venerable cartoonist Al Jaffee (The Mad fold-in guy) to give his archives to the growing collection at Columbia University. :
Karen Green, a Columbia librarian, approached...
On the Scene— Jeff Smith at CCAD/MIX: Avoiding Garfield
by Christian Hoffer
As part of the Columbus College of Arts and Design’s MIX Comic Symposium, Tom Spurgeon (of Comics Reporter fame) interviewed Jeff Smith at the college’s Canzani Center Friday evening. Smith was...
Man of the Day, Ed Piskor
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Ed Piskor's HIP HOP FAMILY TREE is one of the cooler comics of the season—a detailed history of the music and the people who made it drawn in an obsessively retro style—and he's getting...
SPX Shocker: Jeff Smith and Kate Beaton are RELATED
As revealed in Beaton's comic recounting the momentous event, during some SPX chit chat, it turned out they are both related to a family in the same small Canadian town. Needless to say, those...
SPX 2013: 600 cartoonists walk into a bar…
That is not a joke. It is definitely not a joke. With the SPX floor increased by a third to encompass the whole exhibition space it meant there were 280 tables, and with 2-4...
The lost world of Cartoon House profiled
Indie comics folk around Brooklyn and beyond have been quietly grieving over the imminent end of Cartoon House, a giant loft in South Williamsburg inhabited by a bevy of cartoonists over the years, and...
Making of iconic cover examined in new book on Françoise Mouly
Esteemed comics scholar Jeet Heer has just written a book about RAW and New Yorker Art Director Françoise Mouly entitled In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman. Art comics...
Kickwatcher: The Scary Godmother Doll by Jill Thompson
Okay this is one project that really truly deserves all your support! IT's The Scary Godmother Doll designed by creator Jill Thompson. As you can see from the pictures the detail and appearance...
Ben Templesmith: “I’m alive.”
When the story broke about J. Michael Straczynski replacing Ben Templesmith with CP Smith, as artist on his Image series Ten Grand after Templesmith went into extreme radio silence, many wondered if Templesmith was...
Jeff Smith on tour for RASL all fall
The complete RASL by Jeff Smith is out this week, and he'll be touring all over the place—from SPC to CAB—throughout the fall. Here's his schedule:
September 12, 2013
Washington, DC - Politics & Prose Store...
Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison having tea together
We've seen some pretty funny mash-ups photos floating around the web of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore together, photos which are a little ironic since the two titans of comics are not actually besties IRL. However, the above photo of Morrison and Neil Gaiman is 100% real.
