CR Briefings http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/ en tomspurgeon@yahoo.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-21T07:00:00-08:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Go, Look: Toni Gayle http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/8v_8N7oMV_U/ Daily Blog image]]> 2009-11-21T07:00:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/go_look_toni_gayle/ Friday Distraction: Ditko Comics http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/LcDcR9qBTms/ Daily Blog image]]> 2009-11-20T18:00:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/friday_distraction112009/ Your 2009 Berryman Award Winner http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/hIb90lg7Zgc/ According to a post at Daily Cartoonist, the Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe has received the 2009 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoonist. Ann Telnaes of washingtonpost.com and Matt Wuerker of Politico were also cited for their work. A certificate of merit was give to a series by Bill Day on the subject of child abuse. The Berryman award was endowed in 1989 by Florence Berryman in remembrance of her late father and brother, both esteemed cartoonists. Last year's winner was Nate Beeler. Keefe will receive a crystal trophy and a $2,500 cash prize at the National Press Foundation Awards Dinner in February 2010. we won't know until the Berryman sites posts a few samples any of the exact cartoons for which Keefe won, but this was from earlier this year Daily Blog

According to a post at Daily Cartoonist, the Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe has received the 2009 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoonist. Ann Telnaes of washingtonpost.com and Matt Wuerker of Politico were also cited for their work. A certificate of merit was give to a series by Bill Day on the subject of child abuse.

The Berryman award was endowed in 1989 by Florence Berryman in remembrance of her late father and brother, both esteemed cartoonists. Last year's winner was Nate Beeler. Keefe will receive a crystal trophy and a $2,500 cash prize at the National Press Foundation Awards Dinner in February 2010.

we won't know until the Berryman sites posts a few samples any of the exact cartoons for which Keefe won, but this was from earlier this year]]> 2009-11-20T15:30:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/your_2009_berryman_award_winner/ Go, Look: Marvelous Mike 02 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/iY_Pf3LMi2A/ i hate it when that happens Daily Blog image
i hate it when that happens]]> 2009-11-20T15:25:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/go_look_marvelous_mike_02/ Another Company's Recession Sale: BP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/4GGHn-k6wUI/ I don't want to get into the habit of running people's sales as news articles. That way lies madness. At the same time, when the sale in question is important to someone in comics' bottom line in a way that doesn't just mean more profits or burning off back stocks, I'm inclined to pay attention. Alvin Buenaventura wrote me earlier this week to say the current sale at Buenaventura Press (20 percent off across the board, I believe) is not only the company's first sale of that type but is there "to encourage direct orders because we're really struggling." I like their books as a general rule, but here are five projects I'd look into buying at such a sale. * The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry Moriarty I thought this was a beautiful, necessary collection. * Kramers Ergot Vol. 7, Various Let me put it to you like this: I would have to imagine this goes out of print and then never go back into print, which will make it an elusive want-to-have along the lines of the first RAW books. * I Want You, Lia Hanawalt One of four or five buzz books for 2009 and sure to be an anchor of the next round of "Holy crap, look at all the great young female cartoonists!" articles. * Characters For An Epic Tale, Tom Gauld I wasn't a huge fan of the latest Tom Gauld book The Gigantic Robot, but I adore his work generally and really like the prints he's done with BP. * Injury #3, Ted May et al BP has made an admirable commitment to the comic book format, and this is one of their better offerings in a strong suite of comics. While I know that the Internet is less of a place where people run and buy things the second they're linked to than it was even five years ago, I hope you'll please keep BP in mind in the weeks ahead. There are a lot of great comics and pieces of cartoon art there. I think combined with SLG's sale, we should all keep in mind that for a lot of comics companies hard times were there long before the wider public economic mini-meltdown and things could remain fragile long for a long time. Daily Blog

I don't want to get into the habit of running people's sales as news articles. That way lies madness. At the same time, when the sale in question is important to someone in comics' bottom line in a way that doesn't just mean more profits or burning off back stocks, I'm inclined to pay attention. Alvin Buenaventura wrote me earlier this week to say the current sale at Buenaventura Press (20 percent off across the board, I believe) is not only the company's first sale of that type but is there "to encourage direct orders because we're really struggling."

I like their books as a general rule, but here are five projects I'd look into buying at such a sale.

* The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry Moriarty
I thought this was a beautiful, necessary collection.
* Kramers Ergot Vol. 7, Various
Let me put it to you like this: I would have to imagine this goes out of print and then never go back into print, which will make it an elusive want-to-have along the lines of the first RAW books.
* I Want You, Lia Hanawalt
One of four or five buzz books for 2009 and sure to be an anchor of the next round of "Holy crap, look at all the great young female cartoonists!" articles.
* Characters For An Epic Tale, Tom Gauld
I wasn't a huge fan of the latest Tom Gauld book The Gigantic Robot, but I adore his work generally and really like the prints he's done with BP.
* Injury #3, Ted May et al
BP has made an admirable commitment to the comic book format, and this is one of their better offerings in a strong suite of comics.

While I know that the Internet is less of a place where people run and buy things the second they're linked to than it was even five years ago, I hope you'll please keep BP in mind in the weeks ahead. There are a lot of great comics and pieces of cartoon art there. I think combined with SLG's sale, we should all keep in mind that for a lot of comics companies hard times were there long before the wider public economic mini-meltdown and things could remain fragile long for a long time.

image]]> 2009-11-20T15:20:01-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/another_companys_recession_sale_bp/ Go, Look: How To Make Money... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/oXt8mElgVAs/ Daily Blog image]]> 2009-11-20T15:15:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/go_look_cartoonists_exchange_booklet/ Your 2009 Cartoon Trust Winners http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/AruUVTXUNys/ The Cartoon Art Trust Awards announced its list of winners honored during a fundraising dinner earlier this week. They were:Strip Cartoon Award: Graham Dury, Davey Jones and Simon Thorp; Viz Pocket Cartoon Award: Matt Pritchett MBE; Daily Telegraph Joke Cartoon Award: Robert Thompson; A Variety Of Publications Including Private Eye, The Oldie and The Spectator Political Cartoon Award: Morten Morland; The Times Caricature Award: Howard McWilliam The Week Young Cartoonists Of The Year: Alex Shaw (under 18); Nick Edwards (under 30) The Pont Prize For Drawing The British Character: Annie Tempest; Country Life. Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Heath; The Spectator, Private Eye and Mail on Sunday.If I remember correctly, pocket cartoons are the little cartoons that appear on things like the letters page; it's a term out of favor here for the lack of such cartoons. The Pont award is named for World War II-era Punch cartoonist Graham Laidler, who drew a series called "The British Character." Previous winners of the lifetime achievement award include Raymond Briggs and Gerald Scarfe. The awards were started in 1995 as a fund-raising and publicity mechanism for the Cartoon Museum and its primary backer the Cartoon Art Trust, which held an auction in conjunction with this year's dinner. Among the presenters was film director Mike Leigh. There are a few supplementary "my night at the dinner" and "congratulations to XXXX" posts around the Internet, such as this one for Michael Heath. via Daily Blog

The Cartoon Art Trust Awards announced its list of winners honored during a fundraising dinner earlier this week. They were:
Strip Cartoon Award: Graham Dury, Davey Jones and Simon Thorp; Viz
Pocket Cartoon Award: Matt Pritchett MBE; Daily Telegraph
Joke Cartoon Award: Robert Thompson; A Variety Of Publications Including Private Eye, The Oldie and The Spectator
Political Cartoon Award: Morten Morland; The Times
Caricature Award: Howard McWilliam The Week
Young Cartoonists Of The Year: Alex Shaw (under 18); Nick Edwards (under 30)
The Pont Prize For Drawing The British Character: Annie Tempest; Country Life.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Heath; The Spectator, Private Eye and Mail on Sunday.
If I remember correctly, pocket cartoons are the little cartoons that appear on things like the letters page; it's a term out of favor here for the lack of such cartoons. The Pont award is named for World War II-era Punch cartoonist Graham Laidler, who drew a series called "The British Character."

Previous winners of the lifetime achievement award include Raymond Briggs and Gerald Scarfe.

The awards were started in 1995 as a fund-raising and publicity mechanism for the Cartoon Museum and its primary backer the Cartoon Art Trust, which held an auction in conjunction with this year's dinner. Among the presenters was film director Mike Leigh.

There are a few supplementary "my night at the dinner" and "congratulations to XXXX" posts around the Internet, such as this one for Michael Heath.

via]]> 2009-11-20T15:10:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/your_09_cartoon_trust_award_winners/ OTBP: Jim Ivey Books http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/zoZgta9OHGE/ Daily Blog image]]> 2009-11-20T15:05:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/otbp_jim_ivey_books/ Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/7avaFJ96yRA/ * this article goes into the arrests of alleged Mickey Mouse Plot co-conspirators David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana in terms of worries from western intelligence agencies as to what this implies about Lashkar-e-Taiba. * links to the Pakistani military and Bollywood are also being explored, one hopes with the proper amount of diligence accorded to each. * what was David Coleman Headley doing in Mumbai that would make him a participant in the 2008 attacks on the city? Scouting. Daily Blog this article goes into the arrests of alleged Mickey Mouse Plot co-conspirators David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana in terms of worries from western intelligence agencies as to what this implies about Lashkar-e-Taiba.

* links to the Pakistani military and Bollywood are also being explored, one hopes with the proper amount of diligence accorded to each.

* what was David Coleman Headley doing in Mumbai that would make him a participant in the 2008 attacks on the city? Scouting.]]> 2009-11-20T15:00:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/your_danish_cartoons_hangover_update112009/ If I Were In Toronto, I'd Go To This http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/OfLeGyVahSk/ Daily Blog image]]> 2009-11-20T14:50:00-08:00 http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/if_i_were_in_toronto_id_go_to_this112009/