Cartooning – Page 81 – Prattling Before the Pratfall

Just Call Them Political Cartoons

Last week I noted that Art Spiegelman’s Maus won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first, and so far it’s the only, graphic novel to be awarded that distinction.

The category of graphics that the Pulitzer people have recognized for exactly one hundred years is editorial cartooning. But no more. From now on, the category will be called Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Cartooning is not illustration, and if they think this somehow dignifies the craft, it doesn’t work for me.

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/01/21/editorial-cartooning-legend-dead-to-pulitzers/

herblock cartoon — Herblock’s 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists seems to be taking the change in stride. Maybe some of their Illustrated Reporters and Commentators will have something to say about it.

FYI for cartoonists entering the @PulitzerPrizes. From their site: "The Editorial Cartooning category is now called Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Redefined last year, the category recognizes "a distinguished portfolio of editorial cartoons or other illustrated work"

— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) January 20, 2022

A Pop Cartoon Quiz

What’s wrong with this song?

What’s wrong with this cartoon?

What’s for Dessert?

A Cuphead chaser? Why not!

And of course you’ll want to hear the complete soundtrack.

By the way, somewhere in transit Amazon lost my copy of the “Art of Cuphead” book. I’m waiting for the refund to come through before making another attempt at ordering it.

DLC – Doug Loves Cuphead

If I keep posting about Cuphead this way, I’ll have to give him his own category. The “Delicious Last Course” title seemed curious to me, so I asked an expert, “Why DLC?” The answer is it’s stating exactly what the long-delayed game addendum will be — Downloadable Content.

Until the Netflix series premieres, here is the closest thing available to a Cuphead cartoon that’s independent of the gameplay. It starts with the first thing every new animator must master, a walk cycle.

Follow-up: Netflix has a preview of the cartoon series. It looks… okay… but it completely lacks the quirky charm of the work done by the original team. I’ve been told the animation shows the influence of the CalArts School of Film/Video.

It’s the Great Tobor, Charlie Brown

It was a Charlie Brown Christmas with a sci-fi twist last month. Vincent’s guest on the “Creature Features” YouTube channel was Benjamin Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum.