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Category: Cartoons

  • Tony Auth, 1942-2014

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    For over 40 years, Tony Auth was a glimmer of sanity amid the news of the day, in the form of his cartoons on the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2012, Auth — a winner of the Pulitzer and Herblock Prizes — moved to the local PBS affiliate, bringing his cartoons to their

  • B. Kliban cartoons on the web

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    Much to my delight, and considerable surprise, GoComics, the online repository of newspaper comics from both Universal and United Media syndicates, has been placing online the wonderfully off-kilter and reality-warping cartoons of B. Kliban. If you’re not familiar with Kliban, it’s worth noting that The Far Side’s Gary Larson, Bizzarro’s Dan Piraro, the New Yorker’s…

  • Cartoonist interviews on David Wasting Paper

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    Since 2009, David Paccia has been posting short interviews with cartoonists, comics artists and cartoon illustrators of various backgrounds on his blog, David Wasting Paper. The interviews are a standard set of questions, the same given to each artist, the answers to which, of course, are varied. The questions range from interesting and useful, like…

  • Barry Blitt

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    Barry Blitt is an illustrator and cartoonist whose clients include Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone The Atlantic and The New York Times, where he contributes regularly to the op-ed page. He is probably best known, however for his New Yorker covers, which are frequently political (in contrast to the majority of New Yorker covers) and…

  • Eye Candy for today: Ingle watercolor

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    Still Life with Brass Candlestick, John Stuart Ingle — watercolor on paper, 29×42″ (75x107cm). A beautiful bit of watercolor realism by contemporary American artist John Stuart Ingle. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.

  • David Parkins

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    Illustrator and cartoonist David Parkins, originally from the UK and now based in Canada, has had a long career creating editorial illustrations, political cartoons and satirical comics for some of Britain and Canada’s top publications. In addition he has illustrated a number of children’s books. In the introduction to his website, Parkins points out that…