Lego Versions of Famous Artworks

David Griner in Adweek.



Late last year, Italian designer Marco Sodano received global praise for his creative pixelation of famous paintings remade with Legos. At the time, he said he wanted to convey "the belief that every child with Lego can become a great artist like Da Vinci and Vermeer."

Reprint on the iPolitics website (20)

Thursday's cartoon in Le Droit was reprinted on the iPolitics website.

Droodles

One of Price's original Droodles serves as the cover art for Frank Zappa's 1982 album.

Droodles was a syndicated cartoon feature created by Roger Price and collected in his 1953 book Droodles. The trademarked name "Droodle" is a nonsense word suggesting "doodle", "drawing" and "riddle."

Their general form is minimal: a square box containing a few abstract pictorial elements with a caption (or several) giving a humorous explanation of the picture's subject.

Here are a few classics:

Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue (1)

From Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Exploring Calvin and Hobbes is the catalogue for an exhibit by the same name at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum at Ohio State University, which opened in March 2014. The exhibit is Bill Watterson's personal exploration of how the wonder of Calvin and Hobbes came to be. It includes original art of Calvin and Hobbes, along with Watterson's original commentary on each. The show will also include art from cartoonists who Watterson has identified as influential in the development of his art, including Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Doonesbury, Pat Oliphant, Jim Borgman, Flash Gordon, Bloom County, and Ralph Steadman.

 The Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library is the repository of the Bill Watterson Deposit Collection (including the entirety of Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes artwork).

2014 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award Winners

From Mike Lynch Cartoons.

Drawing by Ed Steckley

Here is the list of winners from the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Awards ceremony held May 24, 2014 in San Diego, CA.

Canadian Editorial Cartoonists meet in Cuba

From Graeme Mackay's blog.

An excerpt:

The housing crisis, the occupy movement, and the Obamacare mess have provided Cubans a front row seat to view the parade of pitfalls of capitalism and the widening gap between the super rich and the growing poor. Today’s hardships have darkened the once colourful picture Cubans had of the USA, making people I met wonder how pathetically desperate fellow countrymen must be to board rafts bound for the the shores of Florida in the 21st century.

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

From David Cowles.