Chirpy Hour
A post with many cartoon links
I’m catching up after the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards, so today’s newsletter is more visual than verbal.
Here’s your gateway to the latest blog post, recapping the most recently published Bizarro cartoons.
Looking Ahead & Looking Back (at Last Week)
This barroom scene will appear in a late-October panel.
At the Reuben Awards registration table, attendees were invited to draw on blank puzzle pieces. This looks like a baby Bunny of Exuberance.
The reverse sides were marked with an alphanumeric code, specifying how the puzzle should be reassembled. Photo by Patrick Merrell.
Colleague R. Robert Pollak invited fellow cartoonists to draw on a jam page. In this shot I’m about to add a date stamp to my contribution.
The awards dinner on Saturday night gave everyone a chance to get fancied up. Many photos were snapped.
Your cartoonist with tall, talented Dee Fish. The dapper gent behind me is Daddy Daze cartoonist John Kovaleski.
A meeting of the “hat guys.” You can’t help smiling around Philadelphia superstar Jamar Nicholas.
Rubbing elbows with Mark Parisi, last year’s winner of the “big” Reuben for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.
Proposed Communications Merger
Every Saturday, I publish a cartoon recap/commentary on Blogger in addition to this Substack newsletter. I’m considering using Substack for everything: the cartoon review on Saturday or Sunday, and other stuff (previews, old art, etc.) in between. There might sometimes be a couple of bite-sized newsletters instead of one huge missive. Substack isn’t perfect, but the Blogger platform often behaves unpredictably, and it has no filter to block spammers, so I spend some time every week deleting comments.
I want to direct most of my creative energy to making comics while staying in touch with our community of readers, and this change might make that easier. It will certainly save time spent on cross-posting and linking.
Nothing will change immediately; I’m just considering the options.
Your comments are welcome, as always.
Thanks for subscribing, following, reading, etc.
Cheers from your cartoonist,
Wayno
I vote for you making it easier on yourself and moving everything to Substack. That will give you more time for your music!
I use and like Substack. Go for it! The only thing I don't like about Substack is that it has no built-in spell checker, which for my text-heavy essays is a pain. If I write in Substack, I have to copy the text into Word to spellcheck. Or write in Word and spellcheck, then paste into Substack. A minor complaint. I can spell, but I cain't tipe!