I’ve come across quite a bit of Hank Ketcham’s work in the pages of my old magazine collection, and every once in a while something really cool crops up - like this very familiar looking kid, who predates Dennis the Menace by about a year. In The Merchant of Dennis, Ketcham describes how he [...]

A year before National Cartoonist Society member John Prentice began his 43 year run on the newspaper comic strip, Rip Kirby, he illustrated the story below for Coronet magazine.

You can find Prentice’s biographical “sketch” here on the NCS website, but I hoped to find some additional anecdotal material… and Tom Heintjes article about the Johnstone [...]

Past president of the National Cartoonists Society (1979-81), John Cullen Murphy, in his own words from his biographical “sketch” here on the NCS website:
“Born in N.Y.C. 1919, raised in Chicago. Studied at Art Institute age 9. Moved east 1930, studied with Booth, Rockwell, Bridgman, Dickson, etc. Did covers for Liberty, Collier’s. [...]

“My formal education got me as far as the seventh grade in elementary school,” Albert Dorne says in Ashley Halsey Jr.’s book, Illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post.

“After which,” Dorne continues, “I immediately became a high-powered business executive.”

Albert Dorne was not only the 1947 president of the Society of Illustrators, he was also a member [...]

Looking at this 1951 basketball illustration from Collier’s magazine, its no wonder Willard Mullin has been called the greatest sports cartoonist of all time.

With his remarkable ability to imbue the human face and form with a sort of expressive elasticity that enhances action and motion to the nth degree, Mullin provided a template for a [...]

Because of the intricacies of the contract process involved with securing a syndicated cartoon strip, author Fred C. Rodewald does not go into much detail about opportunities for illustration jobs in that field. His October 1954 article in American Artist mentions only that, “salaried employment for cartoonist, illustrators, letterers and mechanical men” does exist [...]

The Cartoonists Rights Network International has posted an online petition supporting the freedom of expression of cartoonists (and others). The petition was originally conceived after threats were made against the creators of South Park after the show satirized Muhammad.  Signed by Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists, it has now become a more generalized statement of [...]

High-resolution images of the stamps are available for media use only by emailing mark.r.saunders@usps.gov
From the US Postal Service:
‘Sunday Funnies’ Comic Strips Get Stamp of Approval
What:
First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony of the Sunday Funnies 44-cent Commemorative First-Class stamps. The event is free and open to the public.
When:
10:30 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2010
Where:
The Ohio State University
Performance Hall at the [...]

The 64th Annual Reuben Awards dinner was held tonight at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City in New Jersey. This year’s winners:
THE REUBEN AWARD for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year:
Dan Piraro

TELEVISION ANIMATION
Seth McFarlane - “Family Guy”
FEATURE ANIMATION
Ronnie del Carmen - Storyboard Artist - “Up”
NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
Tom Richmond
GAG CARTOONS
Glenn McCoy
GREETING CARDS
Debbie Tomassi
NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman [...]

Mengxin Li is a Film and Animation major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Born in China, she grew-up in Japan, drawing cartoons from a young age. She received the third place prize at the Beijing International Student Animation Festival and her comic “Wind Chevalier” has been featured in the Japanese manga publication, Shoujo Jump.

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