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July 22nd, 2014 | Posted in News
The NCS Foundation has really been firing on all cylinders lately, starting several initiatives that are going to be terrific resources fro pro an aspiring cartoonists alike. They and the NCS just announced one of those new initiatives today, the free digital magazine, The National Cartoonist!: From the NCS Website and NCSF President Steve McGarry: The NCS is delighted to announce the launch of our new digital magazine, The National Cartoonist! We’re really excited about this new publication and hope you will be, too! Published by the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, it is a free magazine celebrating the best in cartooning, past and present, with… READ MORE
July 22nd, 2014 | Posted in News
Clicky to embiggen! Holy 50/50 cotton polyester blend, Batman! This year’s official NCS Comic-Con T-shirt is in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of the Caped Crusader! With artwork by Bill Amend, Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Jim Borgman, Jack Davis (!!), Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Morrison, Mike Peters, myself, Stan Sakai, Jerry Scott and Garry Trudeau, this is going to be a hot seller! The NCS will have them in both white and yellow, with a long sleeve option that has the illustrations also going down each sleeve! Visit the NCS booth #1307 at the San Diego Comic-Con and get this… READ MORE
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
