Invent your own life's meaning

From the Huffington Post:

Bill Watterson retired from writing and drawing "Calvin & Hobbes" about 18 years ago, but the timelessness of his message -- to always remain thoughtful, imaginative, and playful -- will stick in our culture forever, if we're lucky. Case in point: Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, who pens comics on his blog Zen Pencils, created this tribute to Watterson that has struck a chord with the Internet over the last few days.

Read more.

This one speaks for itself

Shout out to Debbie Ridpath Ohi for liccensing her works under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Do you cartoon?

THE JAY KENNEDY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Applicants must be college students in the United States, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year of college during the 2008-2009 academic year. Applicants DO NOT have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2008
The applications will be judged by the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) and the number of scholarships given out and their amounts will be at their discretion of the NCSF.

For more information, visit the National Cartoonists Society Foundation website.

[With thanks to Sandra Bell-Lundy for the tip-off!]

references: How Ted Slampyak creates an Annie strip

via http://drawn.ca/2007/07/30/how-ted-slampyak-creates-an-annie-strip/

http://www.tedslampyak.com/2007/07/how-i-make-comic-strip.html