Bernard Schoenbaum RIP - Updated

New Yorker cartoonist Bernard Schoenbaum died on May 7, 2010.

There are few details, but there is some more information at Michael Maslin's Ink Spill blog.

UPDATE:


The New York Times has an obituary for New Yorker cartoonist Bernie Schoenbaum. He died May 7, 2010 at the age of 89 in his home in Whitestone, Queens. The cause was cancer. Bruce Weber, writing for the Times, "adds significantly to what was publicly known about Bernie's life," to quote fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin.

Mr. Schoenbaum was born in Manhattan on Aug. 8, 1920, to Jewish immigrant parents from Eastern Europe, and grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx, where his father, Abraham, started a number of small businesses. He attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx and the Parsons School of Design. In addition to The New Yorker, his work appeared in a number of publications, including Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal. For years, Mr. Schoenbaum also worked as a portraitist on cruise ships.

Hat tip to Michael Maslin.

Swedish Muhammad Cartoonist Attacked at Lecture

Via Reuters:

Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted on Tuesday while giving a lecture about freedom of speech, he said.

A video of the incident (embedded below) showed an angry crowd in the lecture hall with many people on their feet and shouting. Police were at the front of the hall and one policewoman used pepper spray on a man.

Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog in 2007, said he was assaulted by a man sitting on the front row as he spoke at the University of Uppsala, about 70 km (44 miles) from Stockholm.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/11/swedish-muhammad-cartoonist-attacked-at-lecture/#ixzz0niVHJC8Q

Walt Kelly Tuesday Twofer

Here's a Walt Kelly twofer for your viewing pleasure.

Comicrazys blog presents "The Cow That Jumped Over the Mood" from THE POGO STEPMOTHER GOOSE.


And Thomas Haller Buchanan's Whirled of Kelly blog gives us "The Prince of Pompadoodle."

Frank Frazetta 1928-2010

One of the giants ...

The cause of death was a stroke.

More here.

Can Mike Come Out and Blog?

Richard Thompson's Shiny New Site

Ooh! Take a look at Richard Thompson's new site!

Video: Anton Emdin

Illustrator Anton Emdin, who is nominated for an NCS Division Award this year, talks about drawing for a living.





This video remains the property of Anton Emdin, Lew Keilar, and Illustrators Australia.

Comic Books as Paperbacks

A gallery of famous comic book covers visualized as dime store paperbacks at Fonografik's Gallery.

Thanks to Drew Dernavich via Largeheartedboy.

One Fine Day on the Cliffs of Moher

Ahh. The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland's most visited tourist attraction.


Some friends recently visited and shared these photos. While there are no guard rails around the 214 meter high cliffs, there are these helpful pictograph signs.



Not that everyone understands pictures.

What's On Mark Guggenheim's Shelf

Robot 6 has a continuing feature titled "Send Us Your Shelf Porn!" This week, TV and comic book writer Mark Guggenehim allows his collection of nerdcore books and ephemera (lots of superhero statues) to be exposed to all of us on the Web. Go and look. It's a lotta dusting!

And I just had to share the shelf of Captain Marvels -- a dozen of the Big red Cheeses!

Big hat tip to Stephen DeStefano.

Sir Terry Pratchett on DOCTOR WHO

Sir Terry Pratchett, guest-editing SFX Magazine, talks about why he cannot hate DOCTOR WHO.

"... I will watch again next week because it is pure professionally-written entertainment, even if it helps sometimes if you leave your brain on a hook by the door. It’s funny, light-hearted, knows when to use pathos and capable of wonderful moments .... And I remember too, “The Empty Child” – I never once hid from the Daleks but the Empty Child was almost a back of the sofa moment."

Hat tip to Journalista!

Who Drew This?

Ger Apeldoorn asks who drew this undated giveaway comic book, and offers up some educated guesses (and probably correct ones). Click the link and you can see the entire book, as well as Ger's comic book style detective process.

The book, published by the US government for the Treasury Department, was credited to the Charles Biro studio "through the National Cartoonists Society as a Public Service."

Patrick McDonnell's LITTLE KING Tribute

I missed Patrick McDonnell's tribute to Otto Soglow's THE LITTLE KING comic strip this past Sunday.

Mike Peterson, the eagle eyed comic strip watcher and creator of Comic Strip of the Day.com, caught it. Thanks, Mike!

Related: Mike Peterson interviews Mr. McDonnell.

STAR TREK Actors in THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Above: "STAR TREK Meets TWILIGHT ZONE" via CelebrityOdor.com


Hey! You got your TREK in my ZONE!

Here is a fun tally of STAR TREK actors who were also in THE TWILIGHT ZONE, courtesy of Luvinthe60s:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (William Shatner)
A Quality of Mercy (Leonard Nimoy)
Valley of the Shadow (James Doohan)
The Encounter (George Takei)
Twenty-Two (Arlene Martel)
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville (Julie Newmar)
The Long Morrow (Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley)
People are Alike All Over (Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver)
Dead Man's Shoes (Warren Stevens, Joan Marshall)
Probe 7 - Over and Out (Antoinette Bower)
The Lateness of the Hour (John Hoyt)
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank (Sherry Jackson)
Five Characters in Search of an Exit (William Windom)
The Passersby (James Gregory, Joanne Linville)

Vic Perrin did a lot voiceover work for TREK as well.

I have a feeling this is not exhaustive. Even though I haven't seen every episode of TZ, I know that Shatner was in another episode, Nick of Time. Someone could do the same for THE OUTER LIMITS -- and list of actors would be similar!

And, while we're on the 1960s crossover topic -- here are some TREK actors who were on WILD WILD WEST, thanks to Ptolemy1961: :



And while we're on the subject, here is the WILD WILD WEST theme mashed up with the UFO theme. And it all fits real nice, too!

Sam Cobean

The Hairy Green Eyeball 2 blog starts the day with some Sam Cobean gag cartoons.

VELIA, DEAR by Rina Piccolo

Rina Piccolo announces a new Webcomic: her own VELIA, DEAR. The comic begins today, with updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Rina's new strip is "a humorous look at the life of Velia, a young woman who trades her inner city lifestyle to move in with her aging Italian mother."

Rina notes:

"While I continue to love the world of the newspaper comics page, I just feel I have so much more to give, and — I gotta tell you — the independence of an on-line strip, with its liberties and lack of censorship, sounds like a hat I want to try on right now, just for laughs.

"Oh, and something more … I’ll be blogging often — not just words, but cartoons and comics, too. Check in regularly here and at rinapiccolo.com and I promise I’ll try not to bore you."

Yes, this is in addition to Rina's own 2 syndicated comic strips (TINA'S GROOVE, SIX CHIX) and her gag cartoon output. Not to mention her work in the SYNCOPATED COMICS books.

This may make her the hardest working woman in the comics biz!

Draw, Rina, draw!

Related: From August 8, 2006: A Visit to Rina Piccolo's Studio.

JEST IN PUN by Bil Keane

Mark Anderson showcases a 1966 cartoon book JEST IN PUN by Bil Keane. The cartoons are "Sidesplitters from Bil Keane’s Sideshow."

"Sideshow" was a reader-contributed topper to his FAMILY CIRCUS Sunday strip. The feature ran on the top of the FAMILY CIRCUS cartoon, hence the term "topper." Readers submitted puns to "Sideshow," and Bil would illustrate them.

From a 1975 Cartoonist PROfiles interview with Mr. Keane (via Michael Sporn):

"When my Sunday 'Family Circus' page started in 1′ appended it with a weekly panel 'Sideshow,' consisting of reader-contributed puns. The 25,000 letters a year that this feature drew, as well as the enthusiastic response other pun features, convinced me that thi [sic] many pun-lovers in the country. (And quite few in the city, too, but they won’t admit it.)"

Maine Comics Arts Festival

Less than 3 weeks until the Maine Comics Arts Festival in Portland, ME on Sunday, May 23, 2010!

I'll be there, sharing a table with my inky pal Mark Anderson.

Video: Martha Goldman Sigall Remembers Termite Terrace

Martha Goldman Sigall talks about the practical jokes that Looney Tunes cartoonists used to play on each other during her years at Termite Terrace.

Happy Bloggerversary Sherm Cohen!

Happy 3rd anniversary to Sherm Cohen's CartoonSNAP! blog!