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Conversational Euro-Comics: Bart Beaty On Katz
By Bart Beaty Though questions of parody and appropriation have a long history in comics, they are remarkably little thought through. Cartoonists at MAD regularly stepped on the toes of other comic...
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The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon * it's pretty much the pause before the storm that is Wonder Con and the traditional start of the North American con year. With Emerald City coming hot on the heels of that show, we're...
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Missed It: Lebanese Cartoonist Denies Removing Cartoon
According to a series of reports that first popped up in English at Beirut Spring, the Lebanese cartoonist Pierre Sadek (warning: that link plays synthesizer music) denies have taken down a...
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Go, Read: Robert Boyd's Tribute To The Late Designer Dale Yarger
Robert Boyd has a lovely tribute up to the late designer and art director Dale Yarger at his arts blog. Boyd worked for several comics companies through the 1990s and into the early 2000s; his time at...
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Gary McCoy Receives Blowback On Sandra Fluke Cartoon
So apparently the cartoonist Gary McCoy made a cartoon about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student that testified before Congress about birth control, that echoes vilified statements from Rush...
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Jules Feiffer To Receive John Fischetti Memorial Award
Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist lets us know that the cartoonist Jules Feiffer is this year's recipient of the John Fischetti Memorial Award, given for lifetime achievement. Mr. Feiffer -- a Pulitzer...
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Gabrielle Bell Announces Lucky Collection The Voyeurs
I usually hold off on publishing news until Tuesday's publishing news column, but that's a long way off and I wanted to put as many posts on top of that stupidity from the editorial cartoonists as I...
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The Columbus Dispatch Hires Nate Beeler As Cartoonist
The Columbus Dispatch, a well-established newspaper with a six-figure circulation serving a metro area of about two million, has announced its hire of Nate Beeler to its editorial cartooning position....
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Zunar Profile: Civil Trial Resumption Pushed Back To Early April
There's a bit of hard news in this latest, lengthy profile of the Malaysian cartoonist Zunar: his latest civil trial against authorities over their harassment and work-seizures that was set to start...
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Go, Read: "The Kamen Rider Will Live Forever"
I thought fascinating this article about how absolutely jacked up certain parts of Japan still are following last year's tsunami and earthquake crisis. It's almost relentlessly sobering; even the...
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