cartoonists

A National Rifle Association Institute for Legistlative Action blacklist archiving various organizations, celebrities and journalists for lending their "name and notoriety to anti-gun causes" and various other means of support for things like gun control is getting attention for its inclusion of 14 political cartoonists...

Video: Make: Believe profiles the mega influential Scott Hensey, who has shaped childhoods (and adulthoods) with his work on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure line, among many, many others. Creators: Michel Fiffe has been chronicling his early experiences breaking in to comics over at his blog, as pointed out by Tom Spurgeon...

Film-maker Fred Schroeder and webcomic creator Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive) of Big Fish Studios have completed more than 230 (and counting) hours of interviews with prominent cartoonists spanning several generations and two mediums for their planned documentary, Stripped...

Earlier this week a flurry of pretty righteous criticism befell The Village Voice for somewhat ironically publishing comics commissioned on the free alongside a cover story that explored the essential poverty of the profession in their comics issue...

In anticipation of this weekend's MoCCA Festival, The Village Voice published its Cartoon Issue, featuring an exhaustive and fascinating article on the grim financial realities of cartoonists. Among the many depressing facts reported were that Fantagraphics makes only $6 million in sales a year; the Diamond Comic Distributor's total sales figures for 2009 were only $428 million; and that The Villa

Sometimes a striking image calls for a composition rendered in equal parts literal and metaphorical substance. Take cartoonist Steve Breen's BP oil spill images, which pointed out the social and environmental implications of the disaster in the pollutant itself...

As has been reported in numerous outlets, cartoonist John Callahan died on Saturday, July 24, after an extended hospital stay. He was well-known for what is now being politely referred to in obituaries as his "politically incorrect" sense of humor...