"So You Thought You Could Retire!" by Graham Harrop
From Northwest Prime Time.The award-winning Graham Harrop creates cartoons for The Vancouver Sun and Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, along with the online comic strip Ten Cats. His...
View ArticleNational Newspaper Awards 2022 Nominations
The Canadian Daily Newspaper Association announced today the finalists of the 74th National Newspaper Awards.Michael de Adder (Halifax Chronicle Herald / Hill Times / Washington Post), Serge Chapleau...
View ArticleIt was 20 years ago today
Here are a few cartoons I drew in 2003 about the American invasion in Iraq.
View ArticleThe 19th Doug Wright Awards poster
Dwellings creator and 2022 Pigskin Peters winner Jay Stephens designed this year's Doug Wright Awards poster.The ceremony will take place, Saturday April 29th at 8pm, at the Arts & Letters Club,...
View Article"Milton Glaser: Pop"
From It's Nice That.A new book shows Milton Glaser’s impact in the 60s and 70s, from psychedelia and beyond.Hundreds of Glaser’s works, unseen since their original publication, feature in print once...
View ArticleThe nominees of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards
From the DWA blog.Nominees for the 2023 Doug Wright Awards were selected from entries of books published in the 2022 calendar year. The short list and winners were chosen by a panel of three judges for...
View ArticleA Russian child's drawing sparked a police investigation
From the BBC.Masha's school contacted the police after the 12-year-old drew this pictureIn the centre of the Russian town of Yefremov is a wall covered in pictures of war. Giant photographs of masked...
View Article"Ducks" by Kate Beaton wins Canada Reads!
"We are all implicated in the story Ducks tells. Ducks is one woman's story, but it is the story of an industry that we all rely on in some way.”—Mattea Roach, champion of Ducks on Canada Reads.Ducksis...
View Article"Bill Blackbeard Saves Comics!" Exhibition
From OSU Library.MAN SAVES COMICS! Bill Blackbeard’s Treasure of 20th Century Newspapers, which mines the staggering 2.5 million items in the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, will be on...
View ArticleMad Magazine Cartoonist Al Jaffee Dies at 102
From The New York Times.Al Jaffee at work in 2010 in his studio in Provincetown, Mass.Al Jaffee, a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one...
View ArticleWinners of the 24th Euro-kartoenale Kruishoutem
From the European Cartoon Center.Shahrokh Heidari Sorjani is the winner of the 24th Euro-kartoenale Kruishoutem 'The Future of Mobility: On the Road to Cartopia'.The second prize went to Javad Takjoo...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign for "The Collected Doug Wright Volume 2"
The Doug Wright Awards is launching a crowdfunding campaign for The Collected Doug Wright Volume 2—the companion book to 2009’s much-loved Volume 1.Designed and edited by Seth, it’s a 240-page...
View Article18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustrators
From the Tapirulan Association.From April 15 to June11, the 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustrators will be held in Cremona, Italy with Guy Billout as guest of honour. There will be...
View ArticleEdward Koren 1935-2023
From The New Yorker and Ink Spill.New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren, known for his furry or fuzzy beast, has died at eighty-seven at his home in Brookfield, Vermont.Over the last 60 years, he produced...
View ArticleOfficial posters of the 12th edition of MCAF
From the MCAF Facebook page.This year we asked comic artist Cab (Utown, Hiver nucléaire) to create our new posters. Inspired by this year’s theme "Creation: from imagination to reality", the Montreal...
View Article2023 World Press Photo Contest
From World Press Photo.This year’s World Press Photo Contest global winners highlight the climate crisis, community, war’s impact on civilians, and the importance of press photography around the world....
View ArticleMike Thompson becomes the Star Tribune editorial cartoonist
From the Star Tribune. Mike Thompson was hired as the new staff editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune where he succeeds Steve Sack, who retired from the position last year.He comes to...
View Article"'You're Not A Real Parent Until..."
From Jason Chatfield's Facebook page.This collection of delightful observations from award winning writers and cartoonists Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield will reassure all parents that everything’s...
View ArticleInterview with Posy Simmonds
From The Big Picture.Posy Simmonds, The Guardian 2004, Literary Life 2Born in 1945 in Berkshire, Posy Simmonds drew from an early age. After studying at the Sorbonne and Central School - now Central St...
View ArticleTreasures of comic strip art on "Sunday Morning"
From CBS News.An original copy of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."Bill Blackbeard was something of a superhero. During his lifetime, he collected and preserved 2.5 million ephemeral artifacts of...
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