Now that we’ve moved on “down range” I can say that our group of cartoonists spent Saturday and Sunday at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the Ramstien Air Force Base in Germany drawing for wounded soldiers, hospital staff, service men and women stationed there and their families. More details after I return. READ MORE
The great Sergio Aragon?¬©s is celebrating 50 years as a professional cartoonist, which since 1963 include his contributions to MAD Magazine. The Huffington Post has an artcile about Sergio and his new book MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragon?¬©s: Five Decades of His Finest Works (which, BTW, is as fantastic as you would expect). Congratulations mi amigo… and here’s to many more years! READ MORE
An Aston Martin DB5 built for the filming of the 1965 James Bond film “Thunderball”complete with (mostly) functioning gadgets was auctioned off yesterday in London. The famous modifications include front machine guns that shoot blanks, an ejector seat (that doesn’t work), radar navigation, a nail spreader, tire shredders, bullet shield and a revolving number plate. Man, I really wanted that car, but as it went for $4 million it was exactly $3,999,990 more than what The Lovely Anna allows me to spend in online auctions. For about seven years I had the cheapest of all the Bond cars, a BMW Z3 convertible like the one… READ MORE
A week or two ago I attended the annual meeting of my chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, which featured a bevy of guest speakers, panels and other great presentations. The featured speaker was Josh Cooley, who was co-sponsored by our chapter and the Kaneko art center. Josh is a story artist at Pixar who did a lot of work on “Cars”, “Ratatouille”, “UP” and the forthcoming “Cars 2”, and he did both a presentation of this work and conducted a workshop on “story art”… which is sort of like storyboarding but in Pixar’s case is a lot more central to the creation of the… READ MORE
While visiting the theme parks here in Orlando this week I got the above idea for a possible promotion Disney could do for the upcoming “Cars 2” movie by modifying their motorized rental scooters. Something tells me not to bother submitting it to Disney World for consideration… READ MORE
What the ?!? Yes, this time I’m off to Orlando and the House of Mouse with the family for a little vacation. I know I promised a report on last weekend’s Festival of Cartoon Art at OSU in Columbus, OH, but as I was forced to leave a day early due to a couple of emergency jobs coming in I could not pass up, I barely got to experience any of it. In fact, I only got to hear the presentations of Paul Levitz, James Sturm and Dan Piraro and hang out with some cartoonists pals for two nights, so I will leave the reporting… READ MORE
I’m currently in Columbus, OH for the Festival of Cartoon Art, a once-every-three-years celebration of the art of cartooning held at Ohio State University and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. You can read all about the event in this post. Should be a great time with plenty of terrific panels and speakers. Full report next week… READ MORE
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