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Team Cul de Sac releases artists featured in fundraiser book
Chris Sparks the mastermind and muscle behind the Team Cul de Sac project to raise funds for a cure for Parkinson’s Disease has released the names of the artists who will be featured in the Team Cul de Sac book that is due out in June. Here’s the list of artists: Bill Amend Brian Anderson [...]
Posted on: Feb 9, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 4 Comments
Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest kicks off
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 [...]
Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 6 Comments
Mystery solved: Tribune pulled Doonesbury because it promoted a charity
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific [...]
Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 8 Comments
Garfield enters ebook market
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing. His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House [...]
Posted on: Feb 6, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
QR coded Doonesbury pulled from major newspaper
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. [...]
Posted on: Feb 3, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 12 Comments
Reviewed: Stephan Pastis sets high bar for iPad app
Two weeks ago Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis launched an iPad app called Only The Pearls – a 250 best of collection with audio commentary, interactive features and 22 videos of Stephan acting like an egotistical “ass#%$*” (his description, not mine. Okay, maybe I inserted the word egotistical). There’s something troubling about the app [...]
Posted on: Feb 2, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 21 Comments
Bob Harvey looks at Mary Worth history
Comic historian Bob Harvey takes a look at the history of the serial comic strip Mary Worth. The version of history that inspires this diatribe claims that Martha Orr, a niece of Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Carey Orr, started the comic strip that has always been dubbed the first soap opera strip. But she didn’t [...]
Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Video: Success in Comics Seminar promo video
The Success in Comics Seminar is now less than a month away. The Tundra guys, Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, have produced a little promo video:
Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Interviewed: Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has interviewed Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. BILL GRIFFITH audio excerpt: “I’m sure somebody will be offended, which will be nice-to still offend somebody after all these years. People who only know Zippy comics through King Features will probably be surprised to see that Zippy was more [...]
Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Rare Calvin & Hobbes, comic book art up for auction
Heritage Auction will be auctioning off several highly prized pieces of comic art next month including on original Calvin & Hobbes cover art for Bill Watterson’s 1989-1990 18-month calendar that is expected to fetch more than $50,000. Due to Watterson’s reclusiveness and that he kept most of his artwork to himself, the few originals that [...]
Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Check out: Internationalized Zits
Jim Borgman has posted a write-up of what Zits looks like outside North America. Not acne, but the comic strip which is often renamed, recolored and republished in different formats in 27 countries and 15 different languages. Jim writes: The Zits foreign book publishing program has always been a bit of a mystery to me. [...]
Posted on: Jan 31, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Why Edison Lee isn’t on Amazon: It’s printed in USA
Anne Hambrock has reposted an excellent article detailing how she and her husband John went about self publishing their first collection of his strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. She mentions that they’re not selling the book on Amazon and offers this as one of the reasons: Which is when I realized that we [...]
Posted on: Jan 31, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 5 Comments
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