Video: Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum Archives

From Mike Lynch Cartoons.
Curator Jenny Robb shows us through The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum archives.

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet

From Wired.

A skull which is also an ampersand: the monthly reference magazine of new technologies has selected a visual shocker.

Reprint on the "Yahoo! Canada" website (6)

The above cartoon was featured on the Yahoo! Canada website today.

The visual identity to mark Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017

Steven Heller on the Print website.

The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada asks: “As proud Canadians, do you want something truly memorable for Canada’s 150th anniversary logo? Help us send a loud and clear message to Ottawa about the identity development process for Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations. Use the form below to send your message and sign the national petition:”

Canada’s Centennial Logo. Stuart Ash FGDC

Canadians are using this website to petition the Government to develop a Design Advisory Board for the 150th celebrations identity. We are recommending that the board have representation from each of Canada’s three design associations (GDC, SDGQ, RGD). Use the petition form to make your voice heard, show your support for Canada’s professional design community, and send a clear message to Ottawa about the development of the identity for Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

UPDATE:
Canada’s 150th birthday will be ‘partisan’ bash without anniversary agency: NDP

Revolution in Kiev

A first hand photographic report here.

Fleg Cartoon Goes Viral

More than 30,000 people have so far shared Fleg's "Bieber @ Ford" cartoon published in Yahoo! and Yahoo Québec. Facebook figures also show that more than 500,000 people have seen it.

Let it snow

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.

Dave Coate has an excellent round-up of comic strips by legendary cartoonists Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson on the theme of snowmen. Snowmen have so much potential for humor and both cartoonists mined it well.

B’nai B’rith Canada Condemns Montreal Gazette Editorial Cartoon

From the Algemeiner.

Frank Dimant, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, who traveled with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week to Israel, on Wednesday condemned an editorial cartoon by Aislin published on Tuesday in the Montreal Gazette, showing the prime minister defaced with an Israeli flag.

Edward Sorel Interview in Comics Journal

From The Comics Journal.

Excerpts from an April 1993 interview with Edward Sorel by Gary Groth:

That knob on Mort Drucker's lamp

David Apatoff on his blog Illustration Art.



Mort Drucker didn't like the way he drew this knob, so he painted it out and re-drew it.
The knob was located on the back of an electric lamp:

Cartoonist summoned after offending Ecuador's Correa

From Agence France Presse.

Ecuador's new media regulator, considered a censorship tool by the opposition, has opened proceedings against a press cartoonist whose drawing was considered offensive by President Rafael Correa.

Xavier Bonilla, who works for El Universo, one of Ecuador's main newspapers, which is known for its critical tone against the president, told AFP he had received notification of a summons January 15.

The drafting table is going the way of the Dodo bird

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.

The drawing desk of Rina Piccolo.

The fine folks over at King Features posted photos of some of their talent’s studios. 

I love photos like these. What stands out to me is the lack of the drafting tables. 

I Wish I'd Drawn...(24)

...this wonderful cartoon by Peter Brookes.

More from the Times cartoonist:

"Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo" at the Gothenburg Film Festival

The 37th Göteborg International Film Festival (January 24-February 3) will host the "Sketch Freedom" Cartoon Exhibition with cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Cristina Sampaio, Ann Telnaes, Damien Glez, Vladimir Kazanevsky, Riber Hansson, Kianoush Ramezani and Jaume Capdevila.

Bizarro Original Art for Sale

From the Bizarro blog.

I stopped doing drawings on paper in November of 2011 (I now draw directly on computer) so my original art from previous years is now all that will ever be available. A friend of mine has begun offering one image per week on eBay, which is a great way for you to get one for less than I normally charge. Here’s this week’s eBay listing of a Sunday cartoon which I have featured on this blog. I charge $600 for these but as I write this, the bid is less than $50! I’m late in posting this so there are only a couple of days left on this sale, I think. Hop on over there and pick it up, I need the money!

Ariel Sharon by Ann Telnaes

From Ann Telnael's blog.

The post Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has died appeared first on Ann Telnaes.

USA Today swipes graphic from Scott Bateman

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.

Scott Bateman’s infographic on the recent cold spell that he posted on his Tumblr site last Friday ended up in USA Today yesterday – kind of. The infographic that ran in USA Today was cleaned up (language), but essentially left intact (see below).

The incident was reported by Jim Romensko. USA Today’s editor-in-chief David Callaway apologized to Scott and assured that he was addressing the issue to make sure Scott receives the proper credit and the lapses inside the paper were addressed.

The Art Of Rube Goldberg

Many people know Rube Goldberg as an adjective — a shorthand description for a convoluted device or contraption. But Rube Goldberg was a real person — one who earned a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and who captivated imaginations with drawings of complex chain reactions that completed the simplest of tasks.

Goldberg died in 1970, but Jennifer George, his granddaughter, has collected the zany world he created in a coffee table book, The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius.

Frédéric Back 1924-2013

From Sequential.

Oscar-winning animator of “The Man Who Planted Trees” started career as cartoonist on Quebec TV.

by BK Munn

Frédéric Back, the animator best known for his Academy Award-winning short films, The Man Who Planted Trees and Crac!, died December 24 after a long battle with cancer.