The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired in 1966, and, to quote Linus, it’s still “nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” To be honest, I was ambivalent about seeing it. Although I’d decided not to…
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This week Inside the Cartoonist’s Studio welcomes Bob the Angry Flower’s Stephen Notley! Stephen Notley… Come on down! 1) If you were to cast a movie entirely with cartoon characters, what movie would it be and who would star in…
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Last night I attended a wonderful panel discussion at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago with New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff and cartoonists David Sipress, Charles Barsotti and Matt Diffee. “A History Told Through Humor” examined how The…
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It was about 7:45 last night and my wife had just retrieved our Chicago Tribune from her Oldsmobile when, flipping through looking for the grocery ads, she told me there looked like a fun cartoon article in the Tempo section….
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It’s not often I write “thank God someone made this” in my notes while reviewing a film. But Susan Dryfoos’ “The Line King – The Al Hirschfeld Story” deserves such praise and more. A lovely biography of entertainment caricaturist Hirschfeld,…
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