The Complete Zap Comix

From Fantagraphics.

There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968.

ByZap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. 

2015 Reuben Awards

From Tom's MAD Blog.

Clockwise from far left: Nick Galifianakis, Mort Drucker,
Brian Crane, Doug Mahnke, Mark Anderson, Jeff Keane,
Ann Telnaes and Juana Medina- 

Members of the National Cartoonists Society will be receiving the official brochure for the 2015 Reuben Award Weekend (May 22-24, Washington DC) in their mailboxes in the next week or so. 

With it goes the announcements of the speaker lineup and special award winners:

Cartoonist RK Laxman dies at 94

From The Times of India.

R K Laxman, India's best-known cartoonist, passed away on the evening of January 26, at the Dinanath Mangeshkar hospital in Pune, where he was on life support for the past few days. He was 93.

Find more about Laxman on PRI.

Bizarro celebrates 30th Anniversary

From Bizarro!

On this date thirty years ago (January 21, 1985 if you don’t have a calculator handy) Dan Piraro got out of bed early and hurried out to the front porch of his cheap little rental duplex on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, to get the latest edition of the Dallas Times Herald. In it was the very first Bizarro cartoon ever published.

If We Back Down On This, What’s Next?

Ann Telnaes in The Nib.

The complete article here.

The Charlie Hebdo cartoons no one is showing you.

From The Daily Kos.

Here are cartoons drawn over the past several decades by Cabu, the most emblematic cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo. Cabu was murdered along with his colleagues this past week. He was 77 years old. 

Although no media outlet in the US will show you these images, they can all be found online with a simple Google search. 

The fallout from the "Charlie Hebdo" tragedy

Published originally in Le Droit on Saturday, January 10, 2015.

You can find more about "Charlie Hebdo" in an interesting article by Olivier Tonneau here.

I lost a friend in the "Charlie Hebdo" terrorist attack

From The Ottawa Citizen.

For longtime LeDroit editorial cartoonist Guy Badeaux, a.k.a. Bado, this week’s terror attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was personal. Not only was his profession targeted once again for violence, but he also lost a good friend in the attack: Bernard Verlhac, best known by his pen name, Tignous. Badeaux spoke to the Citizen’s Andrew Duffy.

Cartoonists react to the murders of their "Charlie Hebdo" colleagues

The whole cartooning profession has reacted to the attack on the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo".

Here are a few drawings found in social medias:

Oleg Dergachov and Behzad Ghafarizadeh Exhibition in Montreal

From the ECC Cartoonbooks Club website.

Cartoon by Behzad Ghafarizadeh

Cartoon by Oleg Dergachov

The Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec will hold an exhibition of the cartoons and illustrations of Behzad Ghafarizadeh and Oleg Dergachov entitled ARToon from January 8th to February 8th 2015 in Montreal. The exhibition includes 50 cartoons and illustration of the two artists.

Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec
615, avenue Sainte-Croix
Ville Saint-Laurent
Montreal, Quebec H4L 3X6

Paperless cartoons

From The Economist.

Political satire will increasingly be pixelated.

In recent years cartoonists around the globe have faced special challenges. With newspapers downsizing in the West and religious sensitivities growing in the East, it is increasingly hard for a cartoonist to know where to draw the line.

Cartoon by Sabir Nazar

Jack Ohman on the role of editorial cartooning

From C-Span.

Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman talked about the role editorial cartoonists play in expressing public opinion about the news cycle. Topics included the top issues portrayed in cartoons in 2014.

Editorial cartoonist Brian Gable shares three cartoons that capture 2014

From The Globe and Mail.

Jeff MacNelly Collection Donated to Ohio State University

From The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum blog.

Susie MacNelly, widow of award winning cartoonist, Jeff MacNelly, has donated his collection of original art and papers to The Ohio State University Libraries’ Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM).