Friday, January 07, 2011

Stuever's review of Bob's Burgers

TV review: 'Bob's Burgers,' another gross cartoon where the laughs are burnt to a crisp
By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010702663.html

For some reason, this isn't actually in the print paper.

New superhero TV show The Cape reviewed in Express

It's a generally positive review:
 
McDonough, Kevin / United Features Syndicate.  2011.
New High-Flying Hero: A cop transforms into a caped crusader in a new NBC drama.
[Washington Post] Express (January 7): 35

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Comic Riffs 'best in comics' contest open now

THE BEST IN COMICS: Time to vote from these nominees...

Todd Webb illustrates Pluto killer article in Express

Todd Webb illustrates an article about Pluto killer (or downsizer rather) in today's Express with a comic strip.

January 8: Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro showing

On January 8th at 2 pm, the Library of Congress is showing Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, one of the great director's most acclaimed anime films. It's free.

Navy World War 2 cartoon by Hotchkiss online now

MIS 09-7914-1"He had his heart set on pate de foie gras. Navy chow is the best!
Take all you can eat, eat all you can take! Don't be finicky!"
[Nutrition.] [Propaganda.] [World War 2.] [Illustration by "Hotchkiss USNR".] World War II. Cartoon.
1944; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy; U.S. Government Printing Office; U.S. Navy BUMED Library and Archives

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Mike Lupica's Hero novel

Mike Lupica was inspired by comic books to write 'Hero,' about a boy with super powers
by Tracy Grant
Washington Post January 5, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010403727.html

Comic Riffs talks to Stan Lee, AGAIN

STAN LEE gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 4 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/01/stan_lee_gets_star_on_hollywoo.html

Weldon on being scarred by the Teen Titans letter column, and other news

New Year, New Changes; Also, FLEX MENTALLO! HERO OF THE BEACH!
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog January 5, 2011
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/01/05/132672533/new-year-new-changes-also-flex-mentallo-hero-of-the-beach

Comic book reviews on City Paper

International Ink: France, Canada, England, New York, and New Haven
Posted by Mike Rhode on Jan. 5, 2011

 

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Kal on PBS NewsHour's ArtBeat

Kal writes in:

I wanted to alert you that PBS NewsHour's ArtBeat has just posted a 5 minute video interview they conducted with me at my recent cartoon exhibition in San Francisco.

You can view it here:


or at my Sketchblog

Also, due to the success of the 2011 Economist Wall Calendar, The Economist has commissioned me to create the 2012 edition. Get your orders in now! 

January 6: Carolyn Belefski at Looking Glass Lounge

Saw this on Carolyn's Facebook page:

LIVE Talk Show - You, Me, Them, Everybody

@ The Looking Glass Lounge


You are invited to join the live taping of "You, Me, Them, Everybody" hosted by Brandon Wetherbee. Guests include cartoonist Carolyn Belefski, stand up comedian Jeff Maurer, a special set from Armida Lowe, music from Ian Walters and more.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Looking Glass Lounge
3634 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

Show at 8:30 PM, 21+, no cover

http://www.youmethemeverybody.com/events

Fred Harper illustrated Barry's year-end column in Post Magazine

Caricaturist Fred Harper illustrated Dave Barry's year-end humor column in the Washington Post Magazine this year. It was the January 2, 2011 issue.

90 Years Ago....

A guest post from  Warren Bernard:

Almost to the day 90 years ago, the now under-appreciated Art Young penned this cartoon for his short-lived, self-published magazine Good Morning.

Given current events, enjoy it for its timelessness!!


Amusing blurb on Newseum and National Archives program on Civil War cartoon online at City Paper

"Thursday: The Cartoons of the Civil War at the Newseum," January 4, 2011, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2011/01/04/thursday-the-cartoons-of-the-civil-war-at-the-newseum/

DC Comics letter page to return, says Post wire story

At DC Comics, readers' letters to make a return
By MATT MOORE
The Associated Press Monday, January 3, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010303437.html

Monday, January 03, 2011

OT: Food fluffer Lisa Cherkasky featured on Arlington county website

My friend and neighbor, food fluffer (ie stylist) Lisa Cherkasky is being featured in a "Food for Thought" video on Arlington County's main web page: http://www.arlingtonva.us/default.aspx or you can go directly to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIOBmqyxk0E

More Comic Riffs year in review columns

'Riffs in Review: Top OBAMA cartoons from 2010 By Michael Cavna, and 'RIFFS IN REVIEW: The Top Comics Quotes of 2010 also by Michael Cavna.

2010 comics deaths Comic Riffs and guest post

Comic Riffs is getting back in the swing, and has "'Riffs in Review: Remembering 10 cartooning greats who died in 2010," By Michael Cavna, 01/3/2011, online now. I would quibble with some choices, but it's a good starting list of 'big name' cartoonists lost in 2010.

A few days earlier, D.D. Degg had posted a his list of losses in comic art to a Comic-Strip-Classics, a comic strip history email list that I'm on, so I asked his permission to repost it. Here it is, with suprisingly little overlap with Cavna's list:


These are cartoonists who had a connection to comic strips, editorial cartoons and magazine cartoons.

Someone else will have to add those who didn't drift into those genres from animation (Rudy Larriva, Alex Anderson) or comic books (Valerie Barclay, Vic Dowd) or elsewhere.

If someone wants to post it elsewhere, they have my blessing.

The following cartoonists passed away in 2010:

CHARLES J. (CHUCK) THERRIEN
April 16, 1918 - January 4, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Curry Coastal Pilot 1990s-2000s (15 years)
aeronautical operations analyst

EDWARD LAMAR SPARKMAN
July 11, 1921 - January 6, 2010
sports cartoonist: Tampa Tribune 1947 - 1987

CALVIN C. MAGLINGER
December 5, 1924 - January 20, 2010
art director/illustrator: Evansville Courier Press - 21 years circa ?
painter

REVEREND APOLINARIO ELLIOT MARIANO (BAT) BATIANSILA, JR.
February 29, 1932 - January 31, 2010
comic: Amen
Lutheran minister

FRANK INTERLANDI
March 10, 2010 - February 4, 2010
comic: Interlude with Interlandi (Daily Iowan -college paper)
comic panel: The Cynics Corner
comic panel: Below Olympus
editorial cartoonist: Des Moines Register/Tribune 1953-1962
editorial cartoonist: L. A. Times 1962 - 1981
twin brother: cartoonist Phil Interlandi
painter

MARVIN STEIN
February 11, 1925 - February 11, 2010
comic strip: Funnyman
comic strip: Sky Masters
comic strip: Steve Canyon
comic strip: McGurk's Mob
comic books

CHARLES JERRY GRANDENETTI
April 15, 1926 - February 19, 2010
comic strip: The Spirit
comic books, tv storyboards, advertising

HERMAN GUTIERREZ
April 13, 1924 - March 5, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Corpus Christi Caller-Times
art teacher

DONALD W. (DON) SHERWOOD
September 12, 1930 - March 6, 2010
comic strip: Cotton Woods
comic strip: Will Chance
comic strip: Captain Flame
comic strip: Terry and the Pirates
comic strip: Dan Flagg
comic strip: Deadline
comic panel: Return With Us To...
comic strip: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
comic strip: I Love a Mystery
comic strip: The Flintstones
comic strip: Tom and Jerry
comic panel: Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember
comic books

JOHN M. KANE, JR.
February 9, 1935 - March 10, 2010
magazine cartoonist: New Yorker 2003 - 2010
advertising

WILLIAM STEPHEN (BILL) MURPHY
February 9, 1931 - March 15, 2010
magazine cartoonist: Esquire, Playboy
book illustrator, graphic designer, art director, painter

RICHARD JOSEPH (DICK) GIORDANO
July 20, 1932 - March 27, 2010
comic strip: Friday Foster
comic books

HENRY SCARPELLI
July 30, 1930 - April 4, 2010
comic strip: Little Sport
comic panel: TV Tee Hees
comic strip: Archie
comic books

THOMAS ARCHER (TOM) RAY
August 2, 1919 - April 6, 2010
comic strip: Starlight
animation

RAY BARTON
December 23, 1929 - April 18, 2010
cartoonist, illustrator, advertising
Minnesota Twins logo

THEODORE M. (TED) PETOK
April 4, 1917 - April 20, 2010
cartoonist: Stars and Stripes (World War 2)
magazine cartoonist and illustrator
animation, advertising and commercial artist

PETER O'DONNELL
April 11, 1920 - May 3, 2010
comic strip: Modesty Blaise
British comic: Belinda
British comic: Garth
British comic: Tug Transom
British comic: For Better or Worse
British comic: Eve
British comic: Romeo Brown
British comic: James Bond
British comic books
author

BERNARD ARTST SCHOENBAUM
August 8, 1920 - May 7, 2010
magazine cartoonist: New Yorker, Saturday Review
magazine cartoonist: True, Wall Street Journal
portraitist, fine art

FRANK A. FRAZETTA
February 9, 1928 - May 10, 2010
comic strip: Flash Gordon
comic strip: Li'l Abner
comic strip: Johnny Comet/Ace McCoy
comic books, book illustrator/cover artist,
movie posters, artist

HOWARD W. (HOWIE) POST
November 2, 1926 - May 21, 2010
comic strip: The Dropouts
comic books, animation

ARTHUR GORDON (ART) LINKLETTER
[nee: Gordon Arthur Kelly]
July 17, 1912 - May 26, 2010
comic panel: Art Linkletter's Kids
radio and tv personality, author

ANTHONY LOUIS (TONY) DI PRETA
July 9, 1921 - June 2, 2010
comic strip: Tim Tyler's Luck
comic strip: Mickey Finn
comic strip: Joe Palooka
comic strip: Rex Morgan, M.D.
comic books

ALFONSO (AL) WILLIAMSON
March 21, 1931 - June 12, 2010
comic strip: Tarzan
comic strip: Ace McCoy
comic strip: Flash Gordon
comic strip: Rip Kirby
comic strip: Dan Flagg
comic strip: Big Ben Bolt
comic strip: Secret Agent Corrigan
comic strip: Star Wars
comic books, illustrator

KENNETH HOWARD (KEN) MUSE
April 28, 1925 - June 19, 2010
comic strip: Wayout
cartoonist, author (how-to cartooning books),
tv clown/artist

JOSEPH HUGH (JOE) MESSERLI
November 18, 1930 - June 23, 2010
comic strip: Ella Cinders
comic strip: Napoleon and Uncle Elby
comic strip: The Flintstones
comic books, animation, freelance illustrator

EDWARD J. (ED) ASHLEY
May 5, 1922 - June 26, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Toledo Blade 1972 - 85

WALTER R. (WALT) STEINSIEK
November 1, 1926 - June 27, 2010
"The World's Greatest Bowling Cartoonist"
columnist

ROBIN KING
August 31, 1919 - July 12, 2010
comic strip: The Spirit
comic books, children's book author/illustrator,
radio personality, tv voiceovers

MICHAEL GLEN (MIKE) GAULDIN
November 13, 1954 - July 22, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Arkansas Times 2005 - 09
Governor Bill Clinton's press officer,
U.S. Geological Survey public affairs officer

JOHN MICHAEL CALLAHAN
February 5, 1951 - July 24, 2010
comic panel: Callahan
cartoonist

ALFRED (AL) CABRAL
February 28, 1925 - August 7, 2010
comic strip: Dr. Pett the Vet
sports cartoonist/illustrator: Standard Times
photographer

EDWARD GEORGE (EDDIE) KEAN
October 28, 1924 - August 13, 2010
comic strip: Howdy Doody
tv writer/composer/lyricist
creator of the word "kowabunga"
stock broker

WILLIAM LARRY HOLLOWAY
October 22, 1937 - August 14, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Orlando Sentinel (freelance)
architect, artist

RONALD PAUL OVERMYER
July 18, 1948 - August 27, 2010
comic strip: Hollywood Dog
cartoonist

PAUL FRANCIS CONRAD
June 27, 1924 - September 3, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Denver Post 1950 - 64
editorial cartoonist: L. A. Times 1964 - 93
editorial cartoonist: syndicated 1993 - 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist (1964, 1971, 1984)

HOWARD JOSEPH BRODIE
November 28, 1915 - September 12, 2010
sports cartoonist/illustrator: San Francisco Chronicle
combat artist
courtroom artist
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame

STUART ERTZ (STOO) HAMPLE
(aka Joe Marthen)
January 6, 1926 - September 19, 2010
comic strip: Long Sam
comic strip: Robin Malone
comic panel: Children's Letters to God
comic strip: Rich and Famous
comic strip: Inside Woody Allen
comic strip: The Islander
studio assistant to Al Capp (Fearless Fosdick Wildroot advertising strips)
author, tv writer/performer, advertising

EDWARD M. (ED) HECHTMAN
September 19, 1922 - October 4, 2010
comic strip: Tommy Gun (Stars and Stripes)
comic strip: The Best Years
cartoonist, advertising, painter

CONRAD E. DAY
May 6, 1920 - October 5, 2010
comic strip: By Ned
grocer

JAMES EDWARD (JIM) SEED
April 14, 1927 - October 9, 2010
comic strip: Cranberry Bogg
comic strip: Dr. Guy Bennett
comic strip: Jane Arden
comic strip: Steve Roper
comic strip: Judge Parker
comic strip: Rex Morgan, M.D.

EUGENE GRAY (GENE) PAYNE, JR.
January 29, 1919 - October 14, 2010
editorial cartoonist: Birmingham News 1959
editorial cartoonist: WSOC-TV 1971 - 78
editorial cartoonist: Charlotte Observer 1958, 1960-71, 1978-2009
Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist 1968

LEO ALOYSIUS CULLUM
January 11, 1942 - October 23, 2010
magazine cartoonist: New Yorker 1977 - 2010 (gagman earlier)
magazine cartoonist: others (his last published cartoon may be
the one published in the December 26, 2010 edition of Parade)
airline pilot

MICHAEL R. (MIKE) ESPOSITO
July 14, 1927 - October 24, 2010
comic strip: Terry and the Pirates
comic strip: Apartment 3-G
comic strip: The Incredible Hulk
comic strip: The Amazing Spider-Man
comic books

PATRICK WESSEL
July 16, 1985 - October 24, 2010
cartoonist: The (St. Louis) University News
model, actor

DAVID SCULL BIDDLE
April 23, 1925 - November 10, 2010
comic strip: Biddle's Birdcage
illustrator, painter, sculptor,
high school English and history teacher, banker

ADRIENNE ROY (TOLLIN)
June 28, 1953 - December 14, 2010
comic strip: The World's Greatest Superheroes/Superman
comic strip: Batman
comic books

WILLIAM T. (BILL) KEOUGH
October 7, 1936 - December 17, 2010
editor: The Gag Recap
editor: Cartoon Opportunities
editor: The Directory of Cartoonists and Gagwriters
newspaper reporter/columnist/headline writer/editor
stand-up comedian

RICKY GENE (RICK) HUPKA
July 9, 1953 - December 21, 2010
cartoonist: amateur
associated with: North Central Chapter of National Cartoonists Society
phone company, hardware

Corrections and additions encouraged
D.D.Degg

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