Tuesday, May 20, 2014

You Had Me At "Maggie Gyllenhaal is the theremin player"

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From last week's New York Times Movies section:
Monday, May 19, 2014

Video: Gahan Wilson and The Chicago Art Institute

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From the GAHAN WILSON: BORN DEAD, STILL WEIRD channel:

Colson Whitehead: Obama Should Read RAW Comics' "Amy and Jordan" by Mark Beyer

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(Illustration by Jillian Tamaki for the New York Times.) The New York Times Book Review has a short "By the Book" interview ...
Friday, May 16, 2014

True Story: Overheard in McDonald's

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True story: I overheard these two old fellows at a McDonald's in Des Moines, Iowa. Related:  T...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

The Garden As of May 15, 2014

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Well, it sure feels good to type in the word "garden" after a long winter. Actually, there's not much to see. Three rows o...

Video: Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes

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David Filipi, director of film/video at the Wexner Center, and Jenny Robb, curator and associate professor at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Libr...

Video: Kyle Baker Talks About Gahan Wilson

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Video: Clay Bennett: "I really want to offend them for the right reasons."

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Here's a short promo for a longer interview with Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett from WRCB TV:

Ronald Searle's A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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This is new to me. The good news: there was going to be a Ronald Searle-drawn animated adaptation of Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Video Preview: Karen Gillan's New ABC TV Comedy

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Hey, you got your DOCTOR WHO in my STAR TREK!!! Here's a short preview of the new ABC TV comedy "Selfie," starring t...

Short Film" "Courtroom Sketch Artist"

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This short documentary by Ramtin Nikzad captures the rise and fall of Gary Myrick , a courtroom sketch artist in Texas. He was a busy pro be...

Video: Australian Editorial Cartoonist Mark Knight

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Mark Knight shares how he works as a political cartoonist for Australia's Herald Sun. And isn't it terrific that his cartoon is in f...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Nintendo: Before the Video Games

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Nintendo "grabbers." Say wha -- ???? I have no idea what the context is here, but this family looks like they are having a good ...

1961 Give-A-Show "The Haunted Mine"

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The Give-A-Show projector was a small, plastic projector with which one could insert Give-A-Show filmstrips that tell a story. The Save...
Monday, May 12, 2014

New York Times: "The Paradox of Art As Work" by A.O. Scott

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"If money is not the ultimate measure of creative labors, then it's tough to imagine what else is." A.O. Scott has a New Yo...

Video: Walt Handelsman Draws Live on TV

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Matt Bors on CNN: "The End of the Political Cartoon?"

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Andre the Giant Graphic Novel by Box Brown

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The NY Times, in its Sports section, had a feature article on Sunday on the new graphic novel about the wrestler Andre the Giant. Box B...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Friday, May 16: See You at Lexicon!

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(Art by Anna Rodman.) Dateline: Boston! Well … Lexington, MA, anyways!  It's Lexicon -- wherein kids chat with cartoonists...
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Friday, May 09, 2014

Ludwig Bemelmans' Art for HOLIDAY Magazine

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Back in the summer rerun doldrums in the 1990s, NBC used to have an incessant promo where they would show clips of their shows and told yo...