American Cartoons and Comics


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'Masters of American Comics': A History of the Funnies from Fresh Air, WHYY, January 3, 2006, with an interview of Brian Walker, son of Hi and Lois creator Mort Walker, who has co-edited a new book that traces the history of American comics in the 20th century.

Endorphin Productions is a video news magazine based on the Monterey Peninsula in California. A three-part Endorphin video covers the art of Cartoonists of Carmel. Dennis Renault, retired Sacramento Bee political cartoonist, Robert Blaisdell, retired filmmaker, Eldon Dedini, a cartoonist who's work has been in The New Yorker and Playboy, Roy Gillian, mystery writer, Gus Arriola, creator of the strip "Gordo", and Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace, sat down for coffee and conversation. [part 1: 3 minutes, 50 seconds; part 2: 2 minutes, 22 seconds; 2 minutes, 1 second]

KCTS, a PBS affiliate in Seattle, WA, offers streaming video programs. A 2 1/2-minute "Focus of the Arts" segment titled "Al Hirschfeld at the Frye" introduces an exhibition of the work of the famous caricature artist at the Frye Art Museum by David Leopold, the exhibition's curato

PBS maintains an online archive of individual segments from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Several segments covering the visual arts are available by video search in the Arts & Entertainment category by keyword "Jeffrey Brown". Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports January 21, 2003 on Al Hirschfeld's recent death.

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of Boston-area museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. Drawing Diversity with Jennifer Camper, (56 minutes) is a lecture by Jennifer Camper, queer comic artist and editor of the new comic anthology Juicy Mother, who brings contributing artists together to discuss comics as an expressive medium that is not representative enough in terms of diversity of perspectives The lecture is co-sponsored by Simmons College Institute for Leadership & Change.

 

As of 9/26/05 TFAO Digital Library contained 73 pages referencing the phrase "cartoons" and 33 pages referencing the phrase "comics." To search TFAO's web site please click here.

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Comic Book Confidential. (CD-ROM/Mac). Performer: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernandez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoro, Francoise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, Art Spiegelman. Combines interviews, historical footage, animations and montages of comic book art to trace the development of the comic book from 1933 through counterculture favorites to the hippest representatives of the 1980's revival. 22 significant comic artists and writers are discussed. 1994. DVD 1272; also VHS Video/C 4193; Compu/D 334 (multimedia version) Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley. Preview this video here.[5:00]
 
Confessions of Robert Crumb, The Interviews, monologues, and hilariously insightful vignettes written by Robert Crum are woven together to portray the life, work, and obsessions of this underground comic book pioneer. Crumb continues as an iconoclast who's loved, feared and misunderstood by an ever growing number of readers. Here he tells the story of his artistry that shocks and satirizes every strata and dark hole of society. 1987. 55 min. Video/C 8650. Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
 
Crumb. A hilarious and mysterious journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession, Crumb is a wild ride through the mind of R. Crumb--cartoonist and creator of Zap Comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. A Terry Zwigoff film. 1994. 55 min. DVD 7151; vhs Video/C 4274. Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
 
Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story, The is a 86 minute DVD from Home Vision Entertainment directed by Susan W. Dryfoos and starring Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Jules Feiffer, Robert Goulet, Barbara Walters, Dolly Haas, Joseph Papp and Lauren Bacall. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature (1996), The Line King celebrates Hirschfeld's many years of work for The New York Times, where his drawings were a centerpiece of the Sunday Arts section. ISBN:  0-7800-2796-5
 

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