Category: Cartoons
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R.J. Matson
Whenever the topic of political cartoonists comes up, the question of political bias raises its smirking little head and I get comments about “How could you feature this flaming liberal terrorist sympathizer?” or “How could you showcase such a right wing fascist nut case?”. I’ll start out by saying that RJ Matson is unabashedly liberal,…
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Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee is a cartoonist and comics artist who is best known as a long-time contributor to Mad magazine. Early in his career, Jaffee worked for Timely Comics and then Atlas Comics, which were early forms of the company that became Marvel Comics. Jaffee joined Mad magazine in in 1955, shortly after editor Harvey Kurtzman…
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Heinrich Zille
Heinrich Zille is an artist I was unfamiliar with until I came across this article in the New York Times. Apparently, I’m not alone, in that he is not well known outside his native Germany. There, however, he is not only well known but celebrated, particularly in his adopted home of Berlin, where he came…
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75 Artists You Must Know and Where to Find Them, from DaniDraws.com
Dani Jones, the illustrator behind the long-running and very informative art blog, DaniDraws.com, has posted a list of 75 artists, including illustrators and cartoonists, that are suggested as “must know”, along with a good shot of 6 or 8 links to resources for each one. There isn’t much in the way of description, just a…
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The Many Faces of Eustace Tilley
Had I been on the ball, I would have told you about this earlier, as well as probably entering myself for the fun of it. Every year The New Yorker holds a Eustace Tilley Contest, in which participants get to draw (or paint) their interpretation of the venerable magazine’s upper-crusty top-hatted and monocled iconic character.…
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Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle, the well known English cartoonist and satirist, started drawing cartoons professionally for the Cambridge Daily News at the age of fifteen. He served in WW II as an architectural draftsman and, while stationed in Singapore, was taken prisoner of war when that city was surrendered to the Japanese. Despite the horrific conditions of…