Winners of the 2016 Bedelys Awards
BK Munn in Sequential.The winners of the 2016 Prix Bédélys, awards dedicated to comics published in the province of Quebec during 2015, were announced Thursday night at a ceremony presided over by...
View ArticleNew Yorker Cartoonist Frank Modell Has Died at 98
Michael Maslin from Ink Spill.Frank Modell, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of July 20, 1946 died last Friday just a year and small change from his 100th birthday. Frank was a...
View ArticleThe Winners of the 4th Niels Bugge Cartoon Contest
Artists from France, Italy and Belgium were the winners of the 4th Niels Bugge Cartoons Awards, which focused this year on Europe's migrant crisis.Winners Adene, Marco d'Agostino and Luc Vernimmen.Anne...
View ArticleDan Piraro Wins 2016 Reuben Award for Newspaper Panel Cartooning
Gag cartoonistDan Piraro won the 2016 Reuben Award in the Newspaper Panel Cartoon category at the 70th annual Reuben Awards ceremony held this weekend at the Peabody hotel in Memphis, TN.
View ArticleAnn Telnaes Wins 2016 Reuben Award for Editorial Cartooning
Supreme Court bobbleheadsWashington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes won the 2016 Reuben Award in the Editorial Cartoon category at the 70th annual Reuben Awards ceremony held last weekend at the Peabody...
View ArticleMike Ramirez Wins 2016 Golden Reuben Award
Freelance editorial cartoonist Mike Ramirez won the 2016 Reuben Award at the 70th annual Reuben Awards ceremony held last weekend at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN.
View Article"EU must be joking!" Exhibition at The Political Cartoon Gallery
From The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.A new cartoon exhibition about the EU Referendum will open June 2 at The Political Cartoon Gallery and Cafe.EU must be joking! includes original cartoon...
View ArticleCartoon Propaganda
From Cartoon Movement.A photo of the award ceremony.There’s a line between thought-provoking, sharp, even controversial cartoons and cartoons that are simply propaganda, reinforcing prejudice and...
View Article"For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnson" at the Beaverbrook...
From the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston looks at the career of popular comic artist Lynn Johnston. Throughout her career Johnston consistently drew from...
View Article"Drawing Conclusions: The Political Art of Michael de Adder" at the...
From the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.Drawing Conclusions: The Political Art of Michael deAdderA retrospective of Michael de Adder’s art , curated by Virgil Hammock, will be presented at the Beaverbrook...
View Article"A Fine Line: The Caricatures of Anthony Jenkins"
From The Dufferin County Museum & Archives.The Dufferin County Museum & Archives will host the works of Anthony Jenkins in a retrospective show of his career as a cartoonist and illustrator at...
View ArticleExpozine Prize Nominees
BK Munn from Sequential.The nominees for the Prix Expozine have been announced. The nominees for the awards are chosen every year from participants at the Expozine Fair in November. The winners will be...
View ArticleMort Drucker in Conversation with John Reiner
From the NCS website.One of the most innovative, inspirational and imitated artists in the history of cartooning, Mort Drucker has illuminated the pages of MAD Magazine since 1956 with his brilliant...
View ArticleCartoonist Ann Telnaes on Pat Oliphant
From The Columbia Journalism ReviewI became aware of Oliphant’s work years before I ever considered becoming an editorial cartoonist myself. I was studying character animation in the early 1980s at...
View ArticleFarewell to Two Long-lived New Yorker Cartoonists
From Bob Mankoff's Desk.Cover by Anatol KovarskyArs longa, vita brevis. For cartoonists, especially long-lived ones like Frank Modell, who died two weeks ago, at the age of ninety-eight, or Anatol...
View Article"Quo Vadis Europe?" Cartoon Contest Winners
From the Don Quichotte website.First Prize: Oleksiy Kustovsky, Ukraine
View ArticleMarco de Angelis Wins 33rd Aydin Dogan Cartoon Contest
From CNN Turkey.Marco de Angelis, Italy
View ArticleThe Top 10 Cartoonists in Africa
From This is Africa.Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil: The work of many of the cartoonist featured on this list was graffitied on walls during the Arab Spring.Africa has some of the best...
View ArticleLiza Donnely: Political Cartoon Humour in the 21st Century
From Liza Donnely's website.In a frank interview, Liza Donnelly tells Varoom!about the changing forms and contents of the political cartoon in the 21st Century, and how she sees it evolve in the...
View ArticleGary Groth Explains Why San Diego Comic-Con Sucks
From Seattle Met.The Fantagraphics founder explains how he brought his comic book company back from the brink—and why San Diego Comic-Con Sucks.This July some 130,000 fan kids will shuffle into the San...
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