"You Might Be From New Brunswick If…"

Dan Soucoup in Atlantic Books Today.

A good idea needs a great execution and You Might Be From New Brunswick If… certainly contains both. 

Michael de Adder’s crisp artwork and clever concepts takes the reader on a journey around the province showing us what’s distinctive and truly unique about New Brunswick. 

New Comics Festival in Columbus, Ohio

Dan Gearino from The Columbus Dispatch.

Columbus will be the site of a new comics festival that will seek to attract a national and international audience, organizers said yesterday.

The first Cartoon Crossroads Columbus — CXC for short — will be held in October 2015.

Reprint on the "Yahoo! Canada" website (13)

Today's cartoon in Le Droit is featured on the Yahoo Canada website.

RIP: Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1971-2013

"It is with great sadness that we announce that Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series, produced annually for the past 42 years, will no longer be published."  

- Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, Publisher

National Gallery of Art Welcomes First Comic Books to Its Permanent Collection

From ArtNet News.

Mr. Crumb goes to Washington. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. has been given an extensive collection of underground comic books and they are the first comic books to enter the gallery's permanent collection.

Terry Gilliam: "Things Happen"

To celebrate his 74th anniversary, an interview with Terry Gilliam from The Talks.

Photo by Alex de Brabant

Mr. Gilliam, you’ve been given the nickname “Captain Chaos” because of all the things that have gone wrong on your film sets. Do you need chaos on set to be creative?

(Laughs) It isn’t really that. I don’t want chaos, I actually want order. I really want it ordered very well and I want to surround myself with really well organized people so that when we’re on the set and an idea comes in we can play with it because we’ve got a really good structure. So it’s not chaos. Between me and the actors, or between me and the director of photography, it’s more like, “Oh, what if we did that? Okay, we can do that.” So the organized people think it’s chaos, but it’s not. I just build a structure that’s really solid so even if the lead actor dies, we can finish the film. (Laughs)

"The Art of Richard Thompson"

Screenshot 

The link:

Art of Richard Thompson from GVI on Vimeo.

British Political Cartoon of the Year Awards

You can cast your vote for the Political cartoonist of the year on the Ellwood Artfield Gallery website.

Steve Bell, The Guardian

Another favourite:

Seven Top Portrait Artists

Steve Brodner interviews Edward Sorel, Burt Silverman, Joe Ciardiello, John Cuneo, Jason Seller, Anita Kunz and Victor Juhasz in the Society of Publication Designers' website.

What is your first conscious or unconscious act in sizing up a face as you begin a project?

Edward Sorel: Since we work from photos rather than from the person, the first question is, "Does this photo look like the person?" If it doesn't, you either need another photo or, if you like the expression, get other pictures from other angles--profiles are helpful. Then you exaggerate the feature that is at variance with the ancient Greek ideal of the face. 



The complete article here.

Dušan Petričić Profiled

Uffe Andersn in TOL.

Cartoonist Dušan Petričić has inspired generations of children to stick to basic rules. He’s now applying the same methods to grown-ups.

Reprint on the iPolitics website (24)

This drawing was featured yesterday on the iPolitics website.

Ben Lafontaine 1963-2014

Jean Chrétien by Lafontaine

It is one of the great tragedies of our times that the daily press only publishes illustrations on rare occasions. Thus talented cartoonists such as Benoît Lafontaine, Patrick Dea or Fred Sebastian are forced either to scrape a living, do commercial work or make a career in education.
The other tragedy is to die prematurely. So it is with sadness that I learned of the death last week at age 51 of a colleague who deserved greater fame.
I hope these few examples of his work prove my case:

Reprint on the "National Newswatch" website (7)

Liberal MPs Scott Andrews and Massimo Pacetti had been suspended from caucus based on harassment complaints lodged by two unnamed New Democrat MPs

My cartoon in today's edition of Le Droit is reprinted on the National Newswatch website.

Bill Watterson draws the Angoulême 2015 Poster

Drawing by Bill Watterson

Here is my translation of his interview in 20 Minutes:

Publicité Sauvage at L'Affichiste

Susan Schwartz in The Montreal Gazette.

If you happen to drop by L’Affichiste, Karen Etingin’s Old Montreal poster gallery, some of the posters in the exhibition she’s mounting in November will perhaps look familiar.