Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tom Tomorrow wins 2013 Herblock Award

Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.



The Herblock Prize continues to be one of the least tradition-bound cartooning honors around.
Alt-weekly ’pathfinder’ Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) calls it ‘an overwhelming honor’

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Jimmy Margulies laid off from The Record (NJ)

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.


After 22 years as the editorial cartooning voice of The Record (NJ), Jimmy Margulies was laid off last week.
In what has become a tradition when a staff cartoonist loses his job, Alan Gardner presents the exit interview.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013

Calvin & Hobbes original fetches $65,725

From The Daily Cartoonist.


Calvin & Hobbes for auction
Just a couple of months after an original Bill Watterson watercolor Sunday of Calvin & Hobbes was sold for an outstanding $203,150, another original Calvin & Hobbes went to the auction block. This strip is a daily and was part of a swap of originals between Brian Bassett, creator of Adam@Home and Red and Rover, and Watterson back in 1986. Brian’s motivations last fall was to relieve a financial pinch created by a divorce and an upcoming marriage. This latest strip, however was auctioned by Brian’s ex-wife Linda. Both the Sunday original and daily are signed with best wishes to both Brian and Linda.


The November 03, 1986 strip features Calvin making a get-well card with Hobbes with the ulterior motivation of her making his bed, putting away his clothes and feeding him.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Real Life Banksy

From Fubiz.



Banksy is an artist whose true identity is unknown, but whose works are recognized worldwide.
Nick Stern had fun recreating some urban interventions of the English artist:

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

World Press Photo controversy over image manipulation

Donald R. Winslow on the NPPA website.

Bottom: Paul Hansen's photograph as it was published by his Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, on November 11, 2012

In the days following the announcement of the World Press Photo of the Year there's been quite a discussion going on in cyberspace about post-processing of news images, and how far is too far given the ethics of reportage and today's digital photography.

"Art Spiegelman CO-MIX" at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Marsha Lederman in The Globe and Mail.


Art Spiegelman retrospective: A look back on a career that’s been all about looking back