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July 19th, 2014 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society just released thier full signing schedule for San Diego Comic Con, which includes an appearance by Tenacious D aka Jack Black and Kyle Gass, with illustrator Luke McGarry, who will be there promoting their Festival Supreme show and signing limited edition posters of the event with art done by Luke! Here’s the full schedule: Wednesday, July 23 (Preview Night) 6 PM – 9 PM Greg Evans (Luann) Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine) Luke McGarry (Illustrator) Steve McGarry (Biographic, Kid City) Thursday, July 24 10 AM – 12 PM Greg Evans (Luann) Lex Fajardo (Kid Beowulf) Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine) 1 PM –… READ MORE
July 15th, 2014 | Posted in News
Hard to believe but Comic-Con 2014 is only a week away! I don’t have as hectic a signing schedule as I have had in the past, so I’ll be spending a lot more time at the National Cartoonists Society booth this year… which is good since this is my last year as President of the NCS. Here’s my complete appearance schedule (so far): Wednesday 7/23 (Preview Night) 6 pm-9 pm- NCS Booth #1307 Thursday 7/24 10 am-12pm- NCS Booth #1307 1 pm-4pm- NCS Booth #1307 MAD about MAD Panel- 5:30 pm-6:30 pm- Room 4 Friday¬¨‚Ć 7/25 11 am- 12 pm- Cartoon Art Museum Sketch-A-Thon Booth… READ MORE
July 1st, 2014 | Posted in News
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8X5pcywkaI[/youtube] In the last year or two I have been corresponding with a couple of terrific cartoonists from Europe named Jos?¬© Villena and David Tomaselli, who do a great and clever comic strip called Onion and Pea. They collected their work in a very cool, interactive ebook that I mentioned here before. Now Jos?¬© and David are putting together their first physical “Onion and Pea” book, and have launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund it. They are recently joined members of the NCS and attended their first Reubens this past May in San Diego where they shot a little video for their campaign…. you may… READ MORE
June 26th, 2014 | Posted in News
The blog turns eight today, the first post having appeared on June 26th, 2006. Here’s my annual list of the website stats: Over 6.4 million page views Best day ever-¬¨‚Ć 22,199 views 2,931 total posts over 11,200 comments 388 Sunday Mailbag questions answered 393 Sketches o’the Week posted READ MORE
June 21st, 2014 | Posted in News
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere is a podcast about the greater world of Sherlock Holmes, including his influence in any and all media. I guess they must have been running out of interesting guests, because they asked me to be on the latest episode which just got posted today. I guess they liked me, because we did the interview twice. Well, actually we did it a second time because the first one got lost in a hard drive meltdown. My Sherlock Holmes connection is mostly about my being a pseudo Sherlockian (real Sherlockians have to earn the title) and having done art for a Sherlock… READ MORE
June 5th, 2014 | Posted in News
This Saturday a real gem of a gallery show of original comic art opens at the Kenosha Public Museum in Kenosha, WI… and when I say a “gem” I really mean it. The show is an extension of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, an annual weekend featuring guest cartoonists doing panels, presentation, workshops and meet and greets organized by Anne Hambrock. Anne’s husband John is a cartoonist who does the syndicated daily strip “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee”, and the Hambrocks live in the picturesque little town of Kenosha on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is why this small Wisconsin town hosts some… READ MORE
May 25th, 2014 | Posted in News
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
May 22nd, 2014 | Posted in News
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
