Turhan Selçuk, the Turkish grand cartoonist, died, March 11, 2010.

Jean-Marie send me this sad news:

TURHAN IS DEAD

The grand master of the Turkish cartoon Turhan Selçuk, died March 11, 2010 at the age of 88.
Born in 1922 in Mugla, he began publishing his drawings already at the age of 19.
Two years later he became one of the illustrators of the weekly 'Akbaba', a humorous and political magazine in vogue in the 50s.
Under the influence of Steinberg, he adapted a simple geometric but aesthetic style that he later called "the graphic humour."
In 1954 he began drawing for the daily 'Milliyet' where he created his famous character "Abdülcanbaz.
During his last years, Turhan Selçuk, despite his vision problems, continued to draw almost every day for the newspaper "Cumhuriyet" on a huge board with a magnifying glass.
(text by Izel Rozental, translated from French by Jan)


Turhan Selçuk, le grandissime dessinateur Turc, est décédé avant-hier, le 11 Mars 2010.


TURHAN EST MORT

Le grand maître du dessin humoristique turc Turhan Selçuk, est décédé le 11 Mars 2010 à l'âge de 88 ans.
Né en 1922 à Mugla, il commença à publier ses dessins déjà à 19 ans.
Deux ans plus tard, il devient un des dessinateurs de l'hebdomadaire 'Akbaba', revue humoristique et politique en vogue dans les années 50.
Sous l'influence de Steinberg, il adapta un style géométrique simple mais esthétique qu'il nomma plus tard "l'humour graphique".
En 1954 il commença à dessiner pour le quotidien 'Milliyet' ou il créa son célèbre personnage "Abdülcanbaz".
Durant ses dernières années, Turhan Selçuk, malgré ses problèmes de vision, continua de dessiner presque chaque jour pour le journal 'Cumhuriyet' sur des planches énormes a l'aide d'une loupe.
(Izel Rozental)

Read more:
Turhan Selçuk (Wikipedia)
Turhan Selçuk collection on Toonpool
Google images and Turhan Selçuk

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 3)

Pengfei Xu cartoons are reproduced in every anthology I mentioned. He also got the opportunity to publish a retrospective book that shows, in 150 pages, his works, from 1982 to 1999. The book’s first 25 pages are in color, when the others are in black & white.


Pengfei Xu draws for newspapers since 1978. He was awarded China first prize for press cartoons, and he is Committee Chairman of the Cartoon Section of the China Artists' Association. He is working for the People's Daily and Daily Ji Lin, and he is the editor of Satire and Humor. Hereunder are some cartoons from his book:





Cartoon book file + link: (click to enlarge)

http://blog.huanqiu.com/?uid-184946




Learn more - go to:

Introduction

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 1)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 2)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 3)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 4)

China's Cartoon : ChinaCulture.org about Chinese cartoons

Ronald Searle 90! Congratulations

Congratulations to Britain's greatest cartoonist Ronald Searle who became 90!

Watch his first TV interview in 35 years.

Here are some more Ronald Searle videos, showing his work:

Read more:

The Bloghorn:Steve Bell on Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle Shows open in London

Searle on ECC Cartoonbooks Club (March 30,2008)

www.cartoonbooks.co.uk

Cartoon historian Mark Bryant (UK) informed us his Park Art website is updated. It is www.cartoonbooks.co.uk (contact: info@cartoonbooks.co.uk).

For nearly five years now, Mark is publishing a series of articles on the history of cartoons (two pages eacht month) for History Today magazine. Mark does research on cartoons, cartoonists and cartoon history.

A quick search on the History Today website lists the articles Mark wrote for the magazine. Here are some topics Mark wrote about:

‘J’Accuse ...!’: Cartoons of the Dreyfus Affair

Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.

The First American Political Cartoon

Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the first political cartoon – and one of the most influential ever – to be published in America.

Going Ape Over Darwin

Mark Bryant on cartoons of the man who shook Victorian society to the core.

The Satirical Eye

Cartoon historian Mark Bryant looks at the origins of the satirical magazine that has attracted a generation of outstanding cartoonists.

‘The First Cartoon’

In this new series, cartoon historian Mark Bryant examines significant cartoons and caricatures from the history of the genre, in Britain and overseas and from the 18th century until 1945, and tells the fascinating stories behind them.

The Mother of Pictorial Satire

Although most well-known cartoonists have been men, one of the most influential early figures in the field was a woman, Mary Darly. Cartoon historian Mark Bryant looks at her influence as an artist, publisher and educator.

for the complete article list, click here.

cartoon historian Mark Bryant

His books on cartoon history are an enrichment for everyone's cartoon book collection.

ECC and ECC Cartoonbooks Club members can have cartoon books out of the Park Art catalogue at 10% discount (and have signed copies where appropriate if required).

Learn more:

www.cartoonbooks.co.uk
Mark Bryant: cartoon historian
World War I in cartoons by Mark Bryant

History Today

Contemporary cartoon in China - part 2

Article by JMB

Here is an anthology showing the works of 30 of the Chinese most famous actual cartoonists. This book was issued for an exhibition of Chinese contemporary cartoonists that was on show in the Museum of Satire & Caricature at Forte dei Marmi (Italy), from August 9th to October 5th 2008. After a one page foreword, there are two articles: “The evolution of satirical cartoon in China (written by The China Artists’ Association (2 pages), and “[Chinese] Cartoonists and power, a short story” written by Giorgio Giacomelli (5 pages). Each artist, of the 30 selected, has a four pages section, with a few data lines + a photo and a selection of 4 or 5 of his cartoons.
The China Artists' Association (CAA) aims to be the nation's principle art institution. This Association was established in July of 1949 and boasts over 6,000 members. Its affiliate organizations include the Chinese Paintings Committee, Oil Paintings Committee, Print Committee, Fresco Committee, Animation Committee and the Children's Art Committee. The association also publishes the monthly magazine Fine Arts.

Cartoons by Bin Zhang.

Cartoons by Jing Zhang (I don’t know if these two Zhang come from the same family).

Cartoons by Jie Luo.

Cartoons by Dachuan Xia.

Cartoons by Lichuan Xia (she is the young sister of Dachuan Xia).

Cartoons by Pengfei Xu.

Cartoonbook file: http://www.museosatira.it/cina

Learn more - go to:

Introduction

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 1)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 2)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 3)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 4)

China's Cartoon : ChinaCulture.org about Chinese cartoons

Contemporary cartoon in China - Introduction

Article by JMB - first article in a series about Chinese Cartoon books

"The world is full of foreigners" (French colloquial joke)

The reading of foreign cartoon books is particularly interesting for discovering different subjects as well as seeing more graphic styles. The trouble comes when the possible captions are not in a language one can understand. Glory to cartoon without caption!
Well… once such books read, sometimes a collector cannot record any data about them. How can a westerner write a bibliography when a book is printed without any Latin letter?

The Cyrillic alphabet, if not really translated, can be transferred (letter by letter / or sounds’ letter by letters) into the Latin one. I suppose the same thing could be done with the Arabic alphabet (harder task, I never tried). This is an option. But how about the Far-East ideograms? Here, it is quite impossible. Nevertheless; it would be a pity to deny oneself the pleasure of entertaining with such cartoons coming from important nations like China.

China in Cartoons Exhibition

- January - March 2010 in the ECC

Learn more - go to:

Introduction

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 1)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 2)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 3)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 4)

China's Cartoon : ChinaCulture.org about Chinese cartoons

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 1)

Article by JMB

Since Jan asked me to present some Chinese cartoon books, I first start to show you some anthologies which title, publisher and publishing place are, for my eyes, unknown. I just can tell you these three books (soft cover, full color, 240 x 213 mm) were printed in 2005.

This one has 204 pages, and shows 350 cartoons by 17 cartoonists
its ISBN number is 7-80188-502-3

Here are two pages from this anthology
(cartoons by Su Ning).

This one has 178 pages, and shows 315 cartoons by 19 other cartoonists
its ISBN number is 7-80188-503-1

Here are two pages from this anthology
(cartoons by Feng Gui Bo).

This one has 168 pages, and shows 230 cartoons (& caricatures) by 41 other cartoonists
its ISBN number is 7-80188-548-1

Here are two pages from this anthology
(cartoons by Xiao Cheng Sen).

Here is another Chinese anthology which I don’t know the publisher and place names. I was told it is a collection of awarded cartoons for 25 years, 1978 to 2002, as shown on its cover. This one has its title (?) printed at the back cover and at every page: Zhongwai Huojiang Manhua. Its first 18 pages are in color on glazed paper, when the 299 other pages are in black & white, these ones are made of a thin and bad paper, so the result is not excellent.

Soft cover, size 210 x 200 mm, 350 cartoons. ISBN: 7-5407-2994-5

Learn more - go to:

Introduction

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 1)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 2)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 3)

Contemporary cartoon in China (part 4)

China's Cartoon : ChinaCulture.org about Chinese cartoons

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It's Valentine's Day: may I present Pat Mallet 's erotic cartoons...

Das Grosse Buch der kleinen grünen Mänchen - germany 1977 Most cartoons in this book were published in the French magazine Lui

On the occasion of Valentine's Day 2010 I'll present you some light erotic cartoon books by Pat Mallet. Patrick Mallet (born in Marseille, 1941) is a French cartoonist. He is deaf since the age of 9 but nevertheless he created 'the little green men', 'les petits hommes verts' or 'die Kleinen Grünen Männchen' : little green martians that come to earth to explore mainly the female sex. And most appalling of all, the female sex seems to like the martians!
In 1966 Mallet's cartoons were published in Paris Match, Stern and Die Zeit. Since 1970, his litte green martians cartoons were published in the French magazine Lui. In 1972 and 1978 he received the 'Prix international de l'humour' in Montreal. I don't think he still draws cartoons , but the cartoons he made in the past are just very funny into my opinion.

Most of the books of Mallet I have, I bought on eBay Germany where you easily can find this books.

Les Petits Hommes Verts - éditions j'ai lu 1987

Die kleinen grünen Männchen - Fischer Verlag 1987

Die kleien grünen Männnchen werden Activ
- Fischer Verlag 1987

gelegenheid macht liebe - Fischer Verlag 1989

The book below is the second book of Mallet with cartoons about world history. Of course many of great moments in human history were inspired by the little martians and they were present at these moments. I'll show you this books in more detail later.

Did you know the martians helped Louis XIV of France
to build the Palace of Versailles?

Learn more:
Pat Mallet bio on Lambiek.net
L'Humour acide de Pat Mallet (french)
Facebook: avec Pat Mallet
More funny erotic cartoons on our blog

Bill Mauldin: The Brass Ring

Last week I finished reading The Brass Ring (Berkley Publishing, 1971, 333 pages), an autobiography written by the American WWII cartoonist Bill Mauldin (1921-2003), in which he tells the story of his childhood and youth untill 1945, the year he won his first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His cartoon characters Willie and Joe became immortal. The story tells how a poor farm boy became world-famous spokesman for hundreds of thousands of young men at war, the greatest combat cartoonist ever, and won the first of his Pulitzer Prizes , all by the age of 23.

Mauldin driving his jeep in Italy

I bought this paperback edition (Berkley Publishing, 1971,333 pages) a few weeks ago for 1,75 euro. I enjoyed reading this books. It's well written, sometimes funny and taking. I learned a lot about the real life of American soldiers and the us army life during the invasion in Italy. I also learned about V-mail! Nowadays we have e-mail, but back in WWII soldiers could use this kind of Victory-mail. Mauldin drew a successful v-mail Christmas card for the GI's in Italy.

Mauldins Money-making v-mail christmas card

there is a nice story about this
cartoon in the book

pre-war cartoons

Some copies out of the book:






Here are some quotations about the book:


" Mauldin's contribution to understanding of the war and how the G.I.s saw it is unique"
(General James M. Gavin)

"If that little son-of-a-bitch sets foot in Third Army I'll throw his ass in jail."
(General George S.Patton)

"For all his often hilarious stories about snafus, high jinks and general military tomfoolery, his prose brings back the feel and smell of war, its pain and loneliness and challenge."
(Newsweek)

A few quotations out of the book I liked:

"General Theodore Roosevelt, junior", she told me. "He got up there and said your cartoons were saying what was on everybody's mind about the way infantrymen get treated in Naples. The other guy said you were inciting mutiny and Roosevelt told him you might be preventing it by blowing off a little steam for the boys" (p. 241)

"Using the survival kids they had been taught, they did some fishing with grenades and found buried wine casks by locating the steel hoops with mine detectors. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to use all of the material I got while hanging around that outfit. It was so wild it defied caricature."
(p.262, about the 1ste Special Forces)

Mauldin drew this Time cover (June 1945)

"... and General Patton, home for triumphal parades, has said I was the Bruce Bairnsfather of World War II and that he hadn't liked Bairnsfather, either." (p.331)

More Bill Mauldin related quotes on Wikiquote.

US Postal Service Mauldin stamp

(goes on sale March 2010)

Watch this Mauldin video I found on YouTube:


Learn More:
Bill Mauldin - Wikipedia (recommended)
Beyond Willie and Joe - Library of Congress + Mauldin links (recommended)
Stars and Stripes article about dead of Mauldin
Book review by Dion Osika
Willie and Joe cartoons (google images)