The Great Women Cartoonists by Trina Robbins

Photo via the East Tennesee Writers Hall of Fame It is fitting that his talents will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame ceremonies Friday, March 24, at The Foundry. I hold humor very high in the hierarchy of artistic values. I think that has to do with the times-the difference between Modern and Postmodern, perhaps? But also it has to do with the medium: A cartoon strip has its history/language/conventions and a painting has its history/language/conventions. Stephen Heller interviews artist Vonn Cummings Sumner for Print Mag. Familiar, that is, if you’re a follower of George Herriman’s influential comic strip character Krazy Kat and her unrequited love for brick-throwing Ignatz the Mouse. Second Nature is a curiously familiar solo exhibition of brand-new paintings on paper and canvas by artist Vonn Cummings Sumner. Michael describes his work habits regarding submitting cartoons to The New Yorker. The absence itself is purposeful: we (“we” being the cartoonists) are allowed complete freedom to pursue our work. One of the many things I’ve liked (alright, loved) about working for The New Yorker is the absence of pressure the magazine places on its cartoonists. Michael Maslin has contributed “drawings” to The New Yorker since 1977 …

Norbert by Jerry DeFucchio and Willie Ito, a never-was comic strip © respective ownersįurther reading: Lambiek Comiclopedia Willie Ito entry. … Willie Ito on his long career presented by Jim Korkis at Cartoon Research. I also was involved with magazine cartoons ( Car-Toons magazine in the 1950s), comic strips (four episodes of the annual Disney Christmas comic strip for King Features), comic books (the five Beany and Cecil comic books 1962-1963) and doing subcontract work for other production studios.

Long time animator (1954 – 1999) who frequently dabbled in other comic arts … Willie Ito, Michael Maslin, Vonn Sumner, Charlie Daniel, Ed Steckley, Trina Robbins, Lee Mars, Jules Rivera, more

The Great Women Cartoonists by Trina Robbins