ACC Honorary Member

 

 The 2022 Gable Award by our president Wes Tyrell.

The ACC is very pleased to welcome the great comedian John Cleese as an honorary member.

He performed in Toronto on April 26 and was delighted to be considered a colleague to all the terrific Canuck cartoonists.

The Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award

From Cartoonists Rights.

Freedom Cartoonists Foundation & Cartoonists Rights Network International announce their new international cartoon award partnership: “The Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award” given by FCF to alternate with CRNI’s “Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award”.

The Kofi Annan  Courage in Cartooning Award will be inaugurated at noon, May 3 2022, World Press Freedom Day, at the Geneva Graduate Institute in the presence of 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, journalists Maria Ressa (Philippines) and Dmitry Muratov (Russia).

Marshall Arisman 1938-2022

From Wikipedia.

Photo by Dan Wagner

Born in Jamestown, New York, on October 14, 1938, illustrator, painter, storyteller, and educator Marshall Arisman passed away on April 22.

He studied advertising art at the Pratt Institute and received an Ida Gaskell Grant to travel and study in Europe after graduating in 1960. 

Clive Collins 1942-2022

 

I just heard the sad news that friend and fellow cartoonist Clive Collins has passed away. 

Born Clive Hugh Austin Collins in Weston-super-Mare on February 6, 1942, he had a long and successful career drawing for many publication including Punch, Playboy, The Oldie, Readers Digest, Daily Mail and Sun.

Steve Sack Retires

From The Star Tribune. 

It's with extremely mixed feelings that after 42 years, and some 10,000 cartoons, I have decided to retire from the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune.

I wish I was able to offer a farewell cartoon. I've been away from my drawing table in recent weeks, recovering from hand surgery for carpal tunnel and other nerve issues. 

I'll eventually regain use of my hand, but after difficult reflection I've decided that I'd like to change my focus. At 68, I have other interests and projects, artistic and otherwise, that I'd like to devote more time to.

Guy Lafleur in caricature

  On the Facebook page of Christian Vachon.

Guy Lafleur as seen by Aislin, Bado, McKinnon, Côté, Jean Isabelle, Chapleau, Pascal and Ygreck.

"Still...Racism in America: A Retrospective in Cartoons"

 From The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Pioneering father/daughter cartoonists Brumsic Brandon, Jr. (1927– 2014) and Barbara Brandon-Croft (1958– ) chronicled the nation’s cultural landscape in their comic strips through the lens of racism. 

The elder Brandon, who created Luther in the late sixties, and was later syndicated by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate until 1986, was also known for his blistering editorial cartoons. 

Where I’m Coming From is the work of his youngest daughter, the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist in the mainstream press; it debuted in 1989 in the Detroit Free Press. Universal Press Syndicate later distributed her provocative feature until 2005. 

For six decades, their respective pens lay bare the truth: Nothing has changed. This retrospective reveals how vividly the specter of racism remains in America… STILL.

Still... Racism in America: A Retrospective in Cartoons

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum 

May 21, 2022 - October 23, 2022

Robinson Gallery

Sullivant Hall 

Ohio State University

1813 North High Street

Columbus OH 43202