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WHEN GLC MEMBERS ATTACK!
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Member News:
8/30/04 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION
8/25/04 GLC ON THE ATTACK
8/18/04 BORGMAN ROCKS! (updated 8/27/04)
8/12/04 PACKO MENTALITY
8/11/04 TONY COCHRAN TAKES TO THE AIR
8/05/04 BEAUCOUP BONE
7/31/04 DISNEY'S DIGS
7/12/04 STAHLER UNHITCHES FROM POST
6/25/04 RUBBER MAN WEDS BEARDED LADY
6/25/04 C.F. PAYNE WINS AGAIN
5/29/04 NODS AND WINKS
5/12/04 ROY DOTY GOLF STRIP TEES OFF
5/10/04 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
5/05/04 C.F. PAYNE'S BACK
3/26/04 DOWLING IN HOCKEY H-O-F; BREAKS H-I-P
1/19/02 GLC MEMBERS BRAVE THE ELEMENTS TO PRESENT PROGRAM
BOLDMAN BRICKED
Bethesda, MD: The 2004 Ignatz Award nominees have been announced, and GLC member and (GLyph website operator) Craig Boldman is among them.
The Tenth Anniversary of the Small Press Expo marks the eighth year for the prestigious Ignatz Awards. The awards, named for the brick-throwing character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, is a festival prize that recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The ballot is created by a panel of five cartoonists and is then voted on by the attendees at the event. This offers a unique reflection of the views the professionals and their fans.
The recipients of the awards will be announced at the Ignatz Awards Ceremony held on Sunday, October 3rd, 2004.
Craig's nomination is in the Outstanding Web Comic category for his fledgeling web strip, Tailipoe, about a young man tormented by a strange creature who has taken up residence under his bed.
WHEN GLC MEMBERS ATTACK!
GLC members Donald Peoples and Jeff Stahler are represented in a new book from Dork Storm Press, Attack Of The Political Cartoonists: Insights and Assaults From Today's Editorial Pages. The book is billed as a celebration of an art form for the mature mind, and devotes a page each to 150 members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, offering a short bios, photos and examples of the artists' work.
Our own Lucy Shelton Caswell, curator of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, contributed the introduction to the volume.
The book, edited by J.P. Trostle, is a bit of a departure for Dork Storm Press which typically publishes books, comics and magazines for the gaming industry.
BORGMAN TAKEN FOR GRANITE
If you thought Jim Borgman only drew teenagers and political figures, think again. Turns out he does large, Druid-style rock arrangements as well.
For the second year, Jim has donated the poster art for the annual Pyramid Hill Art Fair. The three-day festival takes place the weekend of October 8-10 at the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio. Stonehenge notwithstanding, Jim's drawing also suggests the work of Jon Isherwood, whose granite arrangement "The Age of Stone" is featured in the park.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum is a 265-acre outdoor museum focusing on monumental pieces of sculpture in an environment of lakes, meadows, forests and gardens.
The festival will include booths and a display of the work of artists from all over the country. There will be on-site educational workshops, music and food.
Click the art at right for a larger view.
EVENT INFO:
2nd Annual Pyramid Hill Art Fair Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 8, 9 and 10 2004 Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum 222 High St. Hamilton, OH 45011 513-868-8336 pyramidhill.orgUPDATE 8/27/04: Christina Waddle, Art Fair Coordinator for Pyramid Hill, tells how Jim's poster has already sparked area artists into creativity: She explains:
"Visionaries and Voices" is a studio and gallery in Cincinnati for people with disabilities, whether Cerebral Palsey, physical or developmental disability. They were at the Art Fair last year, and they're coming back this year.
I had stopped at their studio, and I had a copy of the poster with me. When they saw Jim Borgman's new poster, it inspired them to create a line of stone artwork, which they will have for sale at the Art Fair. Is that too cool, or what?"
Visionaries and Voices Studio Coordinator Shawna Guip tells us that the studio's member artists, who range in age from 16 to 60's, have been busy creating paperweights, mosaic stepping stones, and painted rocks which will be available for purchase at the Art Fair.
Waddle says that, schedules permitting (the event schedule hasn't been finalized at this early date), Jim Borgman will hold a clinic on the Saturday afternoon of the fair.
Above: Pete Hoffman's tough-guy reporter, Jeff Cobb, somehow laid his hands on a rare copy of the print edition of the GLyph! If he can solve the mystery of where the rest of the print run is, we'll give him a job on the investigative reporting staff.
GLC members gathered at the famous Tony Packo's Cafe in Toledo, Ohio on Saturday, August 7 to honor longtime member Pete Hoffman with a surprise party in recognition of the 50th anniversary of his adventure strip, Jeff Cobb. It was a healthy turnout of about 30 members and guests, including new members Dan Collins and Dan Davis. Pete was duly surprised, and fun and hot dogs were had by all. Thanks to Frank Pauer for arranging everything!
A full report and photo roundup will appear in the fall edition of the GLyph.
Left: Man of the Hour, Pete Hoffman with chief instigator, Frank Pauer.
Photo courtesy of Mark Szorady
WAIT WAIT... IT'S TONY COCHRAN!
TONY TO BE CELEBRITY GUEST IN A LIVE STAGE PERFORMANCE OF NPR'S WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME!
The GLC's own Vice-Chairman, Tony Cochran, will appear in a live performance of National Public Radio's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! at the Ohio Theater in Columbus on Thursday, August 19. Cochran, Columbus native and internationally-syndicated cartoonist of the comic strip Agnes, will guest on the It's Not My Job segment of NPR's nationally-syndicated quiz program. In the segment, celebrity guests attempt to answer questions on topics completely out of their area of expertise. Following the performance, Tony will sign copies of his book, Agnes: I'm Far Too Young to Look This Hot.
NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! airs on more than 290 public radio stations across the country and has 1.5 million listeners per week. The Columbus production of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! from the Ohio Theater airs Saturday, August 21, at 11 am on NPR 820 WOSU-AM and again on 90.5 WCBE-FM at 1 pm. You can find your local member station at NPR.
Tony and Agnes: Both too young to look this hot.
EVENT INFO:
NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Ohio Theater, Columbus, OH Thursday, August 19, 2004 7:30 - 9:30 pm Tickets available from Ticketmaster (614) 431-3600 ticketmaster.com Ticket prices: $32, $22, and $12
Read more at the THIS WEEK website.
NEWS FROM BONEVILLE
Left: Newly released: A massive Bone tome, the complete works.
The entire Bone story by Jeff Smith -- the complete 1300 page epic adventure -- has just been collected in a single volume.
Bone is the story of three modern cartoon cousins who get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. They learn about sacrifice and hardship in The Ghost Circles and finally discover their own true natures in the climatic journey to The Crown of Horns.
The deluxe trade paperback, published by Cartoon Books, was the #1 best selling graphic novel for the month of August, with a sold out first printing. More copies will make their way to bookstores, online bookstores, and comic shops Aug. 25. The paperback editions are $40.
In November, Cartoon Books will release a Hardcover signed & numbered limited edition that will go for $125 and will be available in direct market comic book shops only.
For more Bone info, visit www.boneville.com
You'll get a copy of that Bone book if you know what's good for you!
Here's a drawing that you won't find in the Complete Bone. It's a cameo appearance from the cover of Gen 13, issue #13b, published in 1996 by Image Comics.
MORE BONE NEWS: Jeff Smith's award-winning Bone series will spearhead a new graphic novel line from Scholastic Books In January, 2005.
Scholastic will launch the new imprint, Graphix, with a 6"x 9", newly-colored edition of Jeff's long-running comic book series, which has sometimes been described as 'Pogo meets Lord of the Rings.'
"We are thrilled to launch Graphix with the highly acclaimed and award-winning series Bone," said Jean Feiwel, Publisher and Editor in Chief, Scholastic. The publisher will selectively add original titles, reprints, and imports for ages 6-14 to the line.
"Nothing could be better for the art form of comics than having a respected house like Scholastic get behind it," said Bone's creator and GLC member Jeff Smith. "I am very happy to have the chance to join with a major publisher to take the books to a much wider audience."
Jeff's publishing company, Cartoon Books, published the final episode of the original Bone saga earlier this summer.
Yes, it's a lame headline and an old joke, but it was unavoidable, since it so handily sums up an item that's near and dear to the heart of our Secretary/Treasurer, Ed Black:
"There is a movement afoot to restore the Kansas City building in which Walt Disney began his animation career. The rickety structure at 31st and Forest is the former Laugh-O-gram studio where Walt learned his trade in 1922. The Thank You Walt Disney organization has bought the building and saved it from destruction. To raise money for the restoration, which has already begun, Thank You Walt Disney is offering a16" x 24" print (pictured above). It is tax deductible (TYWD is a 501c Not-For-Profit Corporation) and would look great in any cartoonist's studio."
Send $25 for each print to:
Thank You Walt Disney 215 E. 18th St. Kansas City, MO 64108Ed's Disney writings on this very website offer up some background about this early period in Disney's career.
For additional information, visit laughograms.com
JEFF STAHLER HEADS NORTH
GLC member Jeff Stahler has announced that he will soon be leaving the editorial page of the Cincinnati Post -- but the man himself will remain in Cincinnati, even as his cartoons find a new home in Columbus, Ohio.
CB: What can you say about this new position?
JEFF: I'll start as the cartoonist for the Columbus Dispatch as of September 1. Everything else stays the same -- the syndication; my contract with USA Today -- continuing to do one a week for them; and the comic ("Moderately Confused") continues too. I'm really excited about it.
CB: For people who don't know, what's going on with the Cincinnati Post?
JEFF: The Post is under a joint operating agreement with the Cincinnati Enquirer. That agreement will cease in 2007. So sometime in 2007, if not before, Cincinnati will become a one-paper town and the Enquirer will be the only newspaper. I've known for some time that this would probably happen. But now it's been finalized; they've said "We're not going to continue the agreement," so the paper will cease to exist in 2007. The circulation has been dwindling, so it seems like a good time to go out. I've been at a failing paper once, the Columbus Citizen-Journal. But now I can go back to Columbus. My Columbus office at the Dispatch will actually be in the same space that I occupied 20 years ago! I'll get up there periodically, though I'll be mainly working out of my home (in Cincinnati), a discipline that will be new to me.
CB: You'll be doing topical stuff on Columbus? Will that be a bit of a trick since you're living in Cincinnati?
JEFF: It probably won't be, because of the Internet. The Columbus Dispatch is a very good online paper. They show the actual paper online. So I'l be able to see the way they lay out their front page, how they lay out every page of the paper and look at it as though you're reading a real newspaper every day. And I would assume that I'll be able to pick up Columbus radio and other bits of media. Plus I'll be staying in contact with them day in and day out anyhow, via the phone.
CB: I was a little concerned that you'd have to pull up stakes and go elsewhere.
JEFF: Yeah, this is the best because I've always lived in Ohio and I'd just as soon stay right here. And staying right here in Cincinnati for a while is even better.
LIFE IMITATES COMICS, OR VICE-VERSA
The 6/25/04 episode of the circus strip Big Top found Mr. Bendy the contortionist tying the knot -- not in himself, but to his beloved, Hairy Mary, the Bearded Lady. Meanwhile, by coincidence, Big Top artist/writer Rob Harrell was exchanging 'I Do's' with his own sweetheart, Amber (the Beardless Lady), at a ceremony in Indianapolis.
Best GLC wishes to both sets of newlyweds!
CHRIS PAYNE: TWO-TIMER!
Congratulations are in order for Chris Payne, winner of the 2003 Reuben Division Award for Book Illustration, which was presented at the 58th Annual Reuben Awards Banquet in Kansas City on May 29.
The award makes Chris the GLC's third two-time Reuben Division Award winner. Chris previously won a Reuben Division Award for Magazine Illustration in 2001. GLC member Craig McKay took home Reuben Division Awards for Advertising and Illustration in 1999 and 2000. Dave Coverly took the prize for Greeting Cards in '97 and Newspaper Panel Cartoons in '02. Jim Borgman was presented a Reuben for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" for 1993, and with his collaborator Jerry Scott, won Division Awards for Newspaper Comic Strips in 1998 and 1999. Glenn McCoy is a four-time winner, for Gag Cartoons in '96, Editorial Cartoons in '97 and for Greeting cards and Gag Cartoons in '02. Chip Bok was the winning Editorial Cartoonist in '99. Jeff Smith won the Comic Book Division Award in 1996, Roy Doty won for Advertising and Illustration the same year, and Jerry Dowling brought home the award for Newspaper Illustration in '94.
The full list of this year's winners can be found at the National Cartoonists Society website.
NODS AND WINKS
The end of May found GLC members paying tribute to one another in their work. Jim Borgman apparently placed SPEED BUMP's Dave Coverly under a mortarboard in his May 23 cartoon, and Jef Mallett plugged his pal Rob Harrell's BIG TOP strip by way of Underoos in the May 29 installment of FRAZZ.
ROY DOTY GOLF STRIP TEES OFF
Roy Doty's new weekly golf-themed strip, "Off the Cart Path," has begun a three-year run at golfing-weekly.com. Registration is required to read the online strip in Golfing Weekly, an internet magazine. At the moment it costs nothing to subscribe, so sign up and 'see what the guys are up to.'
ABOVE : A panel from Roy's latest comic strip endeavor.
6/7/04 UPDATE: Issue #17 of golfing-weekly.com finds Roy Doty performing double-duty, with a special sketchbook/report of this year's Memorial Tournament in addition to his regular installment of "Off The Cart Path." His sketches illustrate the impact of the cicada invasion on the tournament, among other things.
Saturday, July 3 2004, will mark the third annual Free Comic Book Day in comics specialty shops across the nation. FCBD is a nationwide promotional event sponsored by the comic book industry to attract potential new customers by offering specially designated issues of comics as free samples. Most major comics publishers, and many independent publishers, make special releases available for the occasion.
GLC member Craig Boldman, who writes for Archie Comics, headed up this year's FCBD offering from Archie, a special one-shot comic titled "I Was A Teen-Age Comic Book Character." The story involves Archie Andrews' efforts to create his own comic book title at the urging of his local comics shop owner.
Visit your local participating comics shop on July 3 and pick up your complimentary copy.
Right: Cover for this year's Archie giveaway issue. Various other titles from other publishers will be available as well.
For more information, check the Free Comic Book Day website.
-- back for two more years at Reader's Digest. ABOVE: Chris Payne with a selection of his back covers for that magazine.
GLC member Chris Payne has been championing the cause of commissioned illustration versus stock illustration.
According to Chris Payne, the Illustrator's Partnership of America has taken an ad on the back cover of Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2004 (July/August issue, due out in late June) to promote commissioned illustrations.
"Stock agencies put out all kinds of ads out for what they're selling," said illustrator Payne, who is a founding member of the IPA. "Obviously the stock houses are competing with us artists, and there has been no alternative message to counter theirs. So we developed this ad campaign. The headline of the advertisement is 'Original Art is Superior To Stock Art.'"
"The first ad has been paid for by the IPA," said Payne. "Once this ad is out and people have seen it we will seek funding from artists for additional ads."
Payne said that money raised would go toward postage for direct mail, and for the ad space itself. The entire creative end; the design, the copy, the artwork, has all been donated.
"People should be on the lookout for our ad, see the integrity of it, and then if they want to participate, help us out," Payne said.
Chris can be contacted at cfoxpayne@yahoo.com
Learn about IPA's position on Stock Illustration
Other Chris Payne back cover news:
GLC member Chris Payne tells us that he and Reader's Digest have reached an agreement to extend the deal under which he provides his series of collectible back cover illustrations called "Our America."
"My initial contract was for two years which started in August of 2003, and I just recently signed up for two more, so that means my contract will run through 2007," said Payne. The arrangement with Reader's Digest is unprecedented in the history of the magazine. "They've never had a single artist do an ongoing series for them. It's always been a sporadic assignment. They've been in existence for 80-some years, and I'm the first person they've had do this."
Prints of Chris' artwork will soon be available for purchase through the Reader's Digest website. "Right now they only have the one available," said Chris, referring to his illustration from the May 2004 issue titled "Over There," which commemorates Mother's Day from a uniquely 2004 standpoint. "If you go to the website you can vote for the covers that you would like to see as prints. It's a way for them to figure out which ones people want."
ABOVE AND BELOW: Chris Payne stage manages his photo reference recruits for an upcoming Reader's Digest piece.
JERRY DOWLING SELECTED TO CINCINNATI HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
No, this isn't Jerry -- It's his 4 year-old grandson Kevin at Cincinnati Gardens, displaying the plaque that commemorates Grandpa's induction into the Cincinnati Hockey Hall of Fame. And where was Jerry at the time? In an ambulance. But that, as Paul Harvey would say, is 'The Rest of the Story!'
GLC member Jerry Dowling joined with two Cincinnati Hockey luminaries in being inducted into the Cincinnati Hockey Hall of Fame. Jerry, along with Defenseman Bill Hajt, and right wing Phil Hergesheimer were inducted in a ceremony during the first intermission of the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks 7:35 p.m. game Friday, March 26 2004 against the Chicago Wolves at Cincinnati Gardens. The trio was chosen for induction by the Cincinnati Hockey Hall of Fame executive Committee, media and fans.
Dowling is widely recognized for his work as a sports cartoonist with the Cincinnati Enquirer from 1967-1995.
Among his first drawings for the Enquirer was a cartoon about hockey penalties. He went on to do numerous hockey drawings involving the Swords, Stingers, Tigers and Cyclones during his 28-year career at the Enquirer.
A native of Windsor, Ontario, Dowling also did freelance work with many of the local teams, drawing the bee that was used by the Stingers as well as drawing media guide and program covers for the club. He also did cartoon work for the Dayton Gems, Swords, Stingers, Tigers and Cyclones.
ABOVE: Don Peoples tells kids about the illustration business.
Story and photos: Polly KeenerOn Monday, January 19th, a group of Great Lakes Chapter members braved snowstorms from all directions and converged in Chardon, Ohio to give a program on cartooning at the Chardon Library. An overflow crowd of children and parents enjoyed cartooning tips and professional advice from Mark Szorady, Chip Sansom, Don Peoples, and Polly Keener. Mark, who organized the program, created a fantastic high-tech cartooning computer program for spectators featuring his four syndicated features, "George," "Double Take," "Word Pile," and "Word Ladder," and gave copies of it to participants. For copies, contact Mark.
Polly Keener's talk and overhead projections of her "Hamster Alley" strip and "Mystery Mosaic" puzzle feature, addressed the traditional approach to cartooning and focused on the writing and idea-generating aspects of cartooning. Don Peoples talked about illustrating publications and showed colorful slides of newsletters and a recent book he did.
Chip Sansom wound up the program with a demonstration of how he creates "The Born Loser" strip and made very motivating remarks to would-be cartoonists. He presented each participant with a folder of cartoon materials to try, and a small original signed cartoon.
After the program, several lucky audience members also received door prizes of books, cartoon bookmarks, and computer software. The Lake County News Herald covered the event and ran a large article and photo followed by an editorial praising the library for holding such a program.
January through April is "arts" time in Ohio schools. Polly Keener will give four more cartoon classes at a local middle school in February and several other chapter members are slated to give programs, too, including the GLC's first chairman, Earl Musick, and Wesley Alexander.
