Tag: Cartoonists
The Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Experience with Studio YOLO
In October of 2012, eight cartoonists spent three creatively game-changing weeks at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida as part of a Master Artist-in-Residency program with Emmy Award winning...
New on the Scene: Studio YOLO
New comics collective of the day, Studio YOLO which spun out of a cartooning residency with Dean Haspiel held at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. It consists of 8 cartoonists from around the world:
When great cartoonists ate Korean food together
Natalie Atkinson captures a cartooning summit in Toronto with, l-r, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Seth, Chester Brown, Anouk Ricard, Beguiling owner Peter Birkamoe and Adrian Tomine.
The mystery and joy of BCGF
This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you're in the right place. I wasn't the only one feeling the love.
TRIP CITY at One Year: Around the Digital Campfire with Dean Haspiel
As the “Brooklyn-filtered Literary Arts Salon” TRIP CITY rounds home plate on its first year of existence, the four co-curators Dean Haspiel (BILLY DOGMA), Seth Kushner (CulturePOP, LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS, SCHMUCK), Chris Miskiewicz (EVERYWHERE),...
Check out sweet new Paul Pope website
Paul Pope hasn't been heard from too much of late, but we know he has actually finished BATTLING BOY Volume 1—we saw the triumphant stack of xeroxes in its editor's hands—and now he has...
Cartoonist makes $4.3 million
...from selling his house.
Famed cartoonist/playwright/screenwriter/all-around genius Jules Feiffer is leaving Manhattan, and selling his Upper West Side apartment, a biggish four-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath affair that he probably paid far less than $4.395 million for 34 years ago.
Ditko: “You seem to have chosen the least attractive, the pessimistic, believing there really...
One of the events we missed last week was Steve DIitko's 85th birthday, so a belated birthday greeting, and a link to Michel Fiffe's appreciation and account of his long correspondence with Ditko. As...
Art 4 Sandy Relief Initiative Launches
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which hit America over the past week and caused blackouts, severe damage, and claimed several lives in the process, former Marvel, now Disney art director Rich Ginter has...
On the Scene: Dean Haspiel Storms Long Island
“An Evening with Dean Haspiel”, held at the Cinema Arts Center, in Huntington Long Island on October 4th, was as much a tour of the last twenty years of comics history as a look...
Syrian Cartoonist Ali Ferzat Collects His 2011 Sakharov Award
In August 2011, Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat was pulled from his car by a group of masked gunmen and brutally assaulted, the attack largely focused on his hands. The beating was prolonged, and ended with...
