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The Far Side trails 'new online era' for Gary Larson's beloved cartoons
Immediate excitement has greeted one of the first sign of life from the hugely popular franchise since the publicity-shy artist retired it in 1995
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics.
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‘I Feel Like We’re Replaying World War I’: A Conversation With Ben Katchor
Nearly two decades after winning a MacArthur Genius Grant, Ben Katchor finds hope in the proliferation of independent comics—but not in many other places. By Oliver Lee Bateman.
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Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from Japanese animating great Hayao Miyazaki to sci-fi writer William Gibson...
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The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist—and Almost Ruined His Life
Trolls tried to destroy Ben Garrison’s name—but they also taught him how to internet. Now his cartoons are everywhere. By Emma Grey Ellis.
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Saul Steinberg’s View of the World
As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg’s that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought. By Chris Ware.
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How Donald Trump Hypnotized Scott Adams
Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States. By Caroline Winter.
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Marie Duval, the Pioneering 19th-Century Cartoonist That History Forgot
Duval is responsible for developing the world of Ally Sloper, 19th-century England’s most iconic comic character. By Lauren Young.
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‘Spy vs. Spy’ Was The Subversive Brainchild of An Exiled Cuban Illustrator
One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.
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Got $75,000? The LA Times Is Trying to Bankrupt Me
“My bosses never had a complaint — to the contrary, I received nothing but praise. What I didn’t know, and my editors didn’t know to tell me, was that the political cartoonist of The Los Angeles Times isn’t allowed to criticize the police. I wish I’d been informed…” By Ted Rall. (Aug. 10, 2016)
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Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
On the Ontology of a Stuffed Tiger and Finding the Whole World in a Comic. By Gabrielle Bellot.
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The Making of Daniel Clowes
And a golden age for comics. By Robert Ito.
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Selling Out the Newspaper Comic Strip
In 1989, organizers of the Festival of Cartoon Art, a triennial gathering of cartoonists and their fans at The Ohio State University, tapped Bill Watterson, the creator of the newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to deliver one of the keynote addresses. The reclusive Ohio native put forth a list of demands... By Luke Epplin.
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