Sculptures by Honoré Daumier
From left to right: Jean-Charles Persil, Ratapoil and Count Francois Dominique Reynaud MontlosierAn interesting article about the "Celebrities of le Juste Milieu" on the Musée d'Orsay website:Daumier,...
View ArticleNRA targets Observer cartoonist
From the Charlotte Observer.Award-winning Observer cartoonist Kevin Siers doesn't like to brag, but he's been bestowed with another honor: He's one of 37 journalists on the NRA's anti-gun list."I'm...
View ArticleMeet the editorial cartoonists for Yahoo! Canada
From Yahoo News.Two of Yahoo! Canada's editorial cartoonists, Wes Tyrell and Terry Mosher (also known as Aislin) discuss the importance of editorial cartoons, and the impact they can have on Canada's...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo 2013
From Fubiz.As in a previous article on Fubiz, here is the very prestigious award of the World Press Photo 2013 to reward the best in photojournalism of the year. The winner is Swedish photographer Paul...
View Article"Art Spiegelman CO-MIX" at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Marsha Lederman in The Globe and Mail.Art Spiegelman retrospective: A look back on a career that’s been all about looking backThere’s an episode in Art Spiegelman’s autobiographical and Pulitzer...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo controversy over image manipulation
Donald R. Winslow on the NPPA website.Bottom: Paul Hansen's photograph as it was published by his Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, on November 11, 2012In the days following the announcement of the...
View ArticleYou are not Banksy
From Fubiz.Banksy is an artist whose true identity is unknown, but whose works are recognized worldwide.Nick Stern had fun recreating some urban interventions of the English artist:
View ArticleCalvin & Hobbes original fetches $65,725
From The Daily Cartoonist.Just a couple of months after an original Bill Watterson watercolor Sunday of Calvin & Hobbes was sold for an outstanding $203,150, another original Calvin & Hobbes...
View ArticleJimmy Margulies laid off from The Record (NJ)
Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.After 22 years as the editorial cartooning voice of The Record (NJ), Jimmy Margulies was laid off last week. What has become tradition when a staff cartoonist loses...
View ArticleTom Tomorrow wins 2013 Herblock Award
Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.The Herblock Prize continues to be one of the least tradition-bound cartooning honors around.Alt-weekly ’pathfinder’ Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) calls it ‘an overwhelming...
View ArticleIstvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum from March 9, 2013 through May 5, 2013An innovative Hungarian-born artist whose illustrations have been sought after by clients throughout the world, Istvan...
View Article2012 Reuben Award Nominees
From the NCS website.NCS membership nomination voting has been tabulated, and the nominees for the 2012 Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” are: Brian Crane, Rick Kirkman and Stephan...
View Article40th International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba 2013, Brazil
REGULATION1- DATESThe 40th International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba 2013, realized by the Piracicaba City Hall/Cultural Action Secretariat/National Graphic Humor Center of Piracicaba will be held...
View ArticlePalestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh Jailed by Israel
From PRI The World.Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh was detained by Israeli authorities on February 16th, 2013 while crossing back into the West Bank from Jordan, where he had been on a...
View ArticleIstvan Banyai : Stranger in a Strange Land (2)
Steven Heller wrote the following essay for the exhibit:Istvan Banyai, Tintin in the Museum, 2011. ©Istvan Banyai. All rights reserved.Istvan Banyai is mad. Not angry or despondent, but mad in the...
View ArticleNew Yorker Cartoonist Charles Barsotti
Richard Gehr in Comics Journal."Oh, yes, sir, the zebra is fresh."In 1990, Charles Barsotti received a piece of fan mail from another Charles – Charles Schulz– who wrote: “I think the little dogs you...
View ArticleNational Newspaper Awards 2012
The finalists in the Editorial Cartoon category are Serge Chapleau, Brian Gable and Andy Donato.After Montreal, Laval, Mascouche... the brown envelopes reach Toronto!Serge Chapleau, La Presse,...
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