... his latest podcast endeavor, The Secret Life of Cartoonists. Hear the intrigue! Experience the sordid stories! And ... do solo. And that brainstorming lead to The Secret Life of Cartoonists. Here’s the elevator pitch: You get a drink or two in me and I can’t stop talking. Not ... a lot of stories. The Secret Life of cartoonists is a candid conversation overheard at a bar and secretly recorded for ...

... a podcast I could do solo. And that brainstorming lead to The Secret Life of Cartoonists. Here’s the elevator pitch: You get a drink or two in me and I can’t stop talking. Not ... submitted it to the iTunes podcast directory so that you can subscribe to it there, but in the meantime, just visit cartoonists.tumblr.com to check out our first episode. If you like it. I’ll make more.

This tweet below, from a man who is one of the best selling single-panel cartoonists in the country -  his drawings of big nose, big feet, bug eyes, to go with his obvious gags, ... all about. Ya think? This is why single panel cartoons and magazine cartoons are a dying breed. There are many cartoonists like him, using a style they learned 40 years ago, with the same type of 1950’s humor &# ...

There's big money in cartooning and enormous markets, so says the Cartoonists' Exchange booklet titled HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH SIMPLE CARTOONS. Here are the principles that all successful comic ... caricature, proportions, realistic figure drawing, the "three steps in developing a cartoon sketch" and so much more. This is copyright 1949 The Cartoonists' Exchange, Pleasant Hill, OH.

... buy the book, meet some of South Africa's top political cartoonists featured and get them to sign your copy.   DON’T JOKE! THE YEAR IN CARTOONS ... represents a transitional moment in the history of South African cartooning. For the first time, cartoonists representing the country’s full demographic spectrum, articulating a range of ...

Anyone interested in professional storyboarding, comic book inking and writing can apply for winter courses at the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop! The instructors are well known in the industry with a lot of credit to their names and the fees are very affordable! See their flier here for details: More info is available on their website:

Good word "Whereas most cartoonists, lacking the economic resources of a Nero, a William Randolph Hearst, or a sir George Reresby Sitwell, are unable to amplify their fantasies into anything so ambitious as a Golden House, a San Simeon, or a Renishaw, I reflected that Disney (whose brother and chief business associate, Roy, has a sound understanding of banking principles) has since 1928 ...

... erroneous notion that the drawing of funny pictures is not a serious business.” All this week on my blog I’ll be showcasing the work of some exceptional mid-20th century cartoonists – and accompanying their work with excerpts from Taylor’s 1950 article. (Above, a Hank Ketcham illustration that predates Dennis the Menace by one year). Posted by Leif Peng on Drawn! The ...

... else to call the dying models of the daily big city and alternative weekly newpapers and the diminishing number of cartoonists who can make a living from their checks?).  You have to hope that cartoonists recognize that losing a "job" (i.e. a business model) is not the same as losing your talent and that as old ...

Hey, cartoonists! Holmes, of the truly excellent vintage comic strip site Barnacle Press, needs your help! I know that all of us who are familiar with BP love the site (and are all big fans of Everett True!) and I have a feeling that those of you seeing it for the first time are going to fall in love. BP does a great service for fans of classic cartooning, and now they could use some help with a ...

... the lack of papers willing to use non-humorous cartoons on an event like Veterans Day. I know it's not a connection he likely intended, but I think that horrible story and its responses in cartoon form may provide something of a test case on the collective ability of editorial cartoonists to respond in sober, serious fashion to such a major story. If you're interested, you might look in.

The Internet may be great for trivia and ordering those last-minute holiday gifts, but it's killing the comic industry.   That's the opinion of Julie Larson, creator of "The Dinette Set," the satirical comic panel that runs in the Journal Star along with 50 other papers across the country.

As Sarah Palin sold 300,000 copies of her book last week, she became an even bigger target for everybody from cartoonists to political readers lurking in the GalleyCat comments section. Today msnbc.com cartoonist and cartoon curator Daryl Cagle (pictured) has archived 30 different editorial cartoons mocking the former Alaskan governor as she embarks on her book tour. The comic images ...

My friend Gogue (if you remember some time ago I interviewed him, and you can read it here) went to New York again this last week, after 5 years and was received by Bill Gallo in the editorial office of the New York Daily News. Bill Gallo was born in... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***

My mentor Sir Arthur C Clarke was fond of saying that there is nothing too serious in this world that you can’t make fun of it. (He should know – he once wrote a funny story about the end of the world, the mother of all disasters!) On this blog, I’ve written about creative efforts at