Reprint on the "Yahoo! Canada" website (11)

This cartoon was featured last Thursday on the Yahoo Canada website.

American Editorial Cartoonists in Saint-Just-le-Martel (France)

Daryl Cagle is attending the big European editorial cartooning festival in St. Just le Martel, France, with cartoonists Nate Beeler, Steve Sack, Adam Zyglis, Monte Wolverton and Rick McKee.

Everyone Loves Illustration Art, But Where Does One See It?

Daniel Grant in The Huffington Post.

Here's the problem: There is a growing recognition that the commercial work known as illustration art is an important part of American fine art. For instance, Debra Force, former head of Christie's American art department and now a private dealer in Manhattan of 18th, 19th and 20th century American art, claimed that she has sold works by illustrators Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, J.C. Leyendecker and others to "some of my collectors of American art. 

Jerry Holbert uses ‘watermelon’ in an Obama cartoon

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.

A cartoon by Jerry Holbert that ran yesterday in the Boston Herald has people speechless and wondering how it even made it into the paper. Here’s the cartoon as it ran in the Herald (online and print).

A less offensive version has been posted on GoComics (and I assume the one sent out to his syndicate subscribers:

Kirby and Marvel Make Peace

From Mike Lynch Cartoons.

Photo of Jack Kirby via ComicVine.

Just a few days before the Kirby v. Marvel case was scheduled to be considered by the Supreme Court, both parties settled, out of court. This was unexpected and it sure feels good to write that compensation (and, I hope, credit on the movies) is on its way to the Kirby heirs.

Milton Glaser's "10 Things I Have Learnt"

From Design Indaba.

The celebrated graphic designer on the limits of being professional, why style is not to be trusted and other career (and life) lessons.

My bio in Lambiek

My biography and a somewhat recent cartoon in the Lambiek Comiclopedia.