New York Times: The demise of sports cartoons; Bob Staake at USC; Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Fest 2012

Richard Sandomir has written a great (but sad) piece for The New York Times on the demise of sports cartooning, “Lost Occupation, Lost Art  as Sports Cartooning Declines” — sorry, no link:  check out the NYTs homepage, scroll down to INSIDE NYTS.COM and look for the sports illustration.   From dailytrojan.com, April 19, 2012, “Cartoonist Bob Staake began his career

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All Cartoonists Are Actors

“If I’m drawing a certain type of character, I try to get into the spirit of the thing – and my wife complains about the faces I make while I’m working. All cartoonists, I guess, are actors in a way.” — George Price to Jud Hurd, Cartoonist Profiles, March 1975   If you can find it, Jud Hurd’s Price interview

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Tribeca Film Festival to show Every Tuesday; Gahan Wilson teaches; Slightly more on The New Yorker Big Book of Dogs

From EW.com, April 16, 2012, “Tribeca Film Festival: New Yorker cartoonists in ‘Every Tuesday’” (with a brief clip of the film showing Zach Kanin at work)   From Gear Live, April 14, 2012, “Gahan Wilson Teaches”   From Library Journal, April 16, 2012, this trickle of information about the forthcoming New Yorker Big Book of Dogs (Random house, Fall 2012)

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