'The Simpsons' and 'Big Mouth' are recasting nonwhite roles. But it's about more than finding the right voices. [in print as As animated shows recast nonwhite roles, it's about more than the right voice].
Washington Post July 6, 2020
Monday, July 06, 2020
Cartooning in the hands of idiots can be dangerous
Kansas GOP official apologizes for cartoon comparing mask mandate to the Holocaust
Post's best of Covid-19 art includes 3 cartoonists
Natalie Dupille, Tomás Serrano, and Graeme MacKay are the 3 cartoonists who have work selected.
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post JULY 6, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/07/06/art-pandemic-readers/
The Washington Post recently asked readers to share artwork that they have been creating during the pandemic, and received more than 650 submissions.
Art came from near (Washington and its surrounding states) and far (Germany and England, with a nod to Guatemala). The entrants spanned from tweens to artists in their 90s. And the choice of media included oil and acrylic, flowers, cinder blocks, a dryer sheet and hot glue.
The Post considered not only the quality and creativity of the art, but also the fascinating accompanying backstories. Enduring quarantines, some artists rendered what isolation and loneliness felt like, while others depicted longed-for social scenes from a pre-pandemic time.
Sunday, July 05, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Covid Brunch"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -
"Covid Brunch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3022
Here in Washington, DC, we're in Phase II of Pretending It's All Over And Everything's OK — that is, "reopening the economy". Right about now, some restaurants are re-opening for socially-distanced dine-in — meaning, of course, lots of waitstaff and bartenders working for crap wages plus tips, many threatened with firing, desperately trying to avoid infection by getting themselves up like dentists in order to serve maskless, feckless, blissfully ignorant bougie America.
Yet another one inspired by this classic tweet from Benjamin Dixon:
"Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over"
https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1278451410351394819
"Covid Brunch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3022
Here in Washington, DC, we're in Phase II of Pretending It's All Over And Everything's OK — that is, "reopening the economy". Right about now, some restaurants are re-opening for socially-distanced dine-in — meaning, of course, lots of waitstaff and bartenders working for crap wages plus tips, many threatened with firing, desperately trying to avoid infection by getting themselves up like dentists in order to serve maskless, feckless, blissfully ignorant bougie America.
Yet another one inspired by this classic tweet from Benjamin Dixon:
"Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over"
https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1278451410351394819
Angouleme comics museum bookstore recommends Bloom by Panetta
This is a translation of their Facebook post. It's a very good museum and a great bookstore. I loved visiting it last year. (Thanks to Greg Bennett for the tip)
la librairie de la bande dessinée et de l'image
July 4 2020
🕶☀️ Summer selection ☀️🕶
Here we go again for our summer reading tips! 🤩
Every Sunday, we will share a perfect comic book to accompany your beautiful and big holidays, your nice little weekend or simply to relax in the evening at home ⛱
Starting today with the choice of Lou and his favorite title, presented on the page not long ago: "The flavor of spring", by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau at the éditions Jungle.
Ideal when the sun goes down and the air cools, the story of a rising love between a few notes of music and a lot of kneaded bread dough.
Saturday, July 04, 2020
Al Goodwyn takes 2nd place in Green Eyeshade Awards
Editorial Cartoon / Newspapers
- First Place: Freelance – Robert Ariail, 2019 cartoons
- Second Place: Aiken Standard – Al Goodwyn, Al Goodwyn Collection
- Third Place: Chattanooga Times Free Press – Clay Bennett, The Editorial Cartoons of Clay Bennett
Since 1950, The Green Eyeshades have recognized the very best journalism in the southeastern United States – which now includes print, television, radio, and online.
Thanks to DD Degg of the Daily Cartoonist for spotting this.
Tom King writes the American Way for Superman
Tom King Tells Fox News You Can Say Truth, Justice & The American Way
Cavna on the latest political cartoon controversy
How a newspaper cartoon with a swastika-wearing Trump roiled a Florida community
Washington Post July 3, 2020
Alexandra Bowman talks to India's "Wade" animation directors
"Wade" Co-Directors on Discussing Climate Change Through 2D Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNKLXQZkK4&t=1s
"Wade" Co-Directors on Animation Inspiration, Production, and Self-Distribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWjJfPMxlk&t=2s
"Ghost Animation" Co-Founders on Creating an Animation Studio, and Animating for Amazon and Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13X3_mGkGI8&t=2s
From the press release -
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Kalp Sanghvi's 'Wade' addresses the dangerous sea rising levels in Kolkata, India
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Kalp Sanghvi's Wade addresses the importance of climate change by focusing on the dangerous sea rising levels in India. This stunning animation will be screening online as part of Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June and Palm Springs International Shortfest also in June where it will be competing for the Best of the Festival Award and Best Animated Short.
In an imagined future where Kolkata is rendered unlivable by rising sea level, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger in the flooded streets.
Co-director Upamanyu Bhattacharyya is an animator, filmmaker, comic artist and illustrator. Upamanyu co-directed the highly acclaimed short film Wade with Kalp Sanghvi. As a founding partner of Ghost Animation in Kolkata, he has worked on a wide range of animation and illustration projects for clients including Google, Amazon, and Penguin. Bhattacharyya worked on the title sequence for acclaimed director Mani Ratnam's film OK Kanmani, storyboarded his other film Kaatru Veliyidai and has also worked with Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman to create storyboards for his VR project Le Musk. Currently, he is finishing his work on his next solo animated short Ten, a dark comedy about the mass exodus from Bangladesh in 1971 and is developing his animated feature City of Threads, set in Ahmedabad in the 1960's.
Co-director Kalp Sanghvi is also an animation filmmaker and illustrator who co-founded Ghost Animation in Kolkata in 2015. He has worked on various animation and illustration projects for clients including Amazon and Sony Entertainment India. Kalp has worked on title sequences for feature films including acclaimed director Umesh Shukla's 102 Not Out, featuring Amitabh Bachchan & Rishi Kapoor. He is developing his first animated series Rajbari: The Ancestral House, a fantasy family drama set in Kolkata and working on an animated short film about tiger conservation in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust of India called Remains.
Wade has currently applied to over 60 festivals and its selections so far include Palm Springs International Short Fest, Brooklyn Film Festival (Best Film, Audience Award), ITFS Stuttgart, Krakow Film Festival, Animayo Film Festival (Best Art Direction) and OFF Odense International Film Festival.
This film screened online as part of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 15th to June 30th and won the "City of Annecy" Award and at Palm Springs International ShortFest on June 16th to June 22nd.
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Recent Cartoon (click on Image for larger view)
"Saint Putingrad" |
| ©2020 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • all rights reserved |
Friday, July 03, 2020
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Reprise of a 2014 Cartoon following Redskins owner declaring there will be no name change, It uses the famous 1911 sculpture by James Earl Frazier on the shameful treatment and ultimate defeat of Native Americans — (click on Image for larger view).
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| ©2020 Steven G Artley • All Rights Reserved |
New Kickstarter from Rafer Roberts
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NIGHTMARE THE RAT - The NEW collection! 
Put them side-by-side! They look great together! 
Baltimore's David Plunkert interviewed by Steve Heller
The Daily Heller: A Commingle of David Plunkert’s Line and Collage
Steven Heller
June 30 2020
https://www.printmag.com/post/the-daily-heller-a-commingle-of-david-plunkert-s-line-and-collage
Thursday, July 02, 2020
Bianca Xunise in The Lily
It's not my job to absolve your white guilt
It should not take our deaths for people to realize our worth
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "So Over Quarantine"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -
"So Over Quarantine"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3016
All across the US, the economy is "reopening". Despite new cases hitting a new record, cities all over the country are beginning to re-open bars and restaurants so that selfish, pasty-assed, whiny, non-mask-wearing America can go out and be served by people working with little or no adequate protection for crap wages and crap benefits — or often, no benefits at all. In my own hometown of Washington DC, we're currently in Phase II of Pretending It's Over And Everything Is OK.
"Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over"
—Benjamin P. Dixon @BenjaminPDixon on Twitter, 07.01.2020
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3016
All across the US, the economy is "reopening". Despite new cases hitting a new record, cities all over the country are beginning to re-open bars and restaurants so that selfish, pasty-assed, whiny, non-mask-wearing America can go out and be served by people working with little or no adequate protection for crap wages and crap benefits — or often, no benefits at all. In my own hometown of Washington DC, we're currently in Phase II of Pretending It's Over And Everything Is OK.
"Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over"
—Benjamin P. Dixon @BenjaminPDixon on Twitter, 07.01.2020
Cavna on protest and mask editorial cartoons
How cartoons are chronicling the battle between mask wearers and Trump
Washington Post July 2, 2020
The powerful cartoons mocking Trump's response to the protests
Washington Post June 2, 2020
Is Tom King writing a Watchmen sequel?
Bleeding Cool thinks he is.
Will Tom King and Jorge Fornés' Watchmen Comic Be Announced Soon?
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