Getting back home later tonight from San Diego and the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend! Full wrap up coming Thursday. Too tired for anything else… plus my liver hurts. READ MORE
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at a piece I did for MAD Kids, the short-lived pre-teen version of MAD. The first of the Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” movies had just come out, and these large spot illustrations were called “Wall Webbers”. In the magazine, these were two page spreads containing two main images (and some accessories). The art department at MAD added dotted lines around them so they could be easily cut out, and indicated where a piece of yarn was supposed to be inserted. Then they could be taped to a wall and the yarn stretched from Spidey to the other image to… READ MORE
Whew. Another NCS Reuben Award Weekend in the books. I’ll write a complete wrap-up later this week after I recover. In the meantime, here are the complete award results. Congratulations to the winners! The Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year: Wiley Miller Editorial Cartoons Mike Ramirez Newspaper Illustration Miel Prudencio Ma Feature Animation Hayao Miyazaki: Director, “The Wind Rises”- Disney TV Animation Paul Rudish for Disney Channel’s “Mickey Mouse” shorts – Disney Newspaper Panels Dave Coverly Magazine Gag Cartoons Matt Diffee Advertising/Product Illustration Rich Powell Greeting Cards Mark Parisi Comic Books Sergio Aragon?¬©s –Sergio Aragon?¬©s Funnies Graphic Novels Andrew C Robinson- The 5th… READ MORE
Greg Evans, creator of the syndicated comic strip Luann READ MORE
Animator, illustrator and creator of Reed Gunther, Chris Houghton! READ MORE
Eddie Pittman, animator and creator of Red’s Planet, talking about his work and career at the Friday NCS speaking program. READ MORE
This weekend is the big National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award Weekend in San Diego, where between 200-300 cartoonists will get together and eat, drink, be merry, and honor their fellow cartoonists with various awards. This year, we’ll be honoring some other folks as well… those that have served our country in the military. Those who follow this blog will know I have been privileged to have been a part of several USO cartoonist tours to visit both wounded warriors and serving active military personnel in places like Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations both in and out of war zones. Our groups meet and… READ MORE
This week’s SotW subject in our ongoing “Game of Thrones” series is everyone’s favorite gold-digging husband’s bane Margaery Tyrell, as portrayed by Natalie Dormer. Gotta love that twisted, duck-lipped smirk of hers. Or hate it. READ MORE
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