Industry news for the professional cartoonist
I received word from Bill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy for Tundra, about whether the Success in Comics seminar will be released to DVD. After discussing the issue with Chad Carpenter, the strip’s creator and co-host of the event, they decided they are not going to make the video available. In his own words, The primary…
I debated how much information from the seminar to share with my readers who didn’t attend. I took extensive notes filling seven full, single space, typed pages. It seems unfair to those who ponied up the $350, plus travel and hotel expenses to find out a good portion of it was available to those who…
This last weekend was the Success in Comics seminar hosted by Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, the cartoonist and sales guy for the Tundra comics strip. The idea for this seminar was hatched over a year ago after many cartoonist approached Bill asking him how he was able to get Tundra into so many papers…
Howard Tayler, the creator of The Schlock Mercenary was the last speaker and the lone representative of the webcomic free model. Howard stayed clear of openly advocating the free webcomic market instead talked about the ideas and concepts that he learned over the years that have enhanced his ability to provide a living based solely…
Keith Knight, a prolific cartoonist doing three cartoons, The Knight Life syndicated through United Media, and self syndicated (th)ink and The K Chronicles. The K Chronicles was a college comic that was eventually picked up by the San Francisco Weekly and San Francisco Chronicle. He began self-syndicating the strip to other daily papers. During his…
Andrew Feinstein, co-creator of Girls and Sports was the second speaker of the day here at the Success in Comics seminar. Andrew and Justin Borus started the comic strip while in college and self syndicated to other about 80 universities papers before they attempted self syndication to dailies. They set a goal back in 2004…
Daryl Cagle was the first speaker on the second day of the Success in Comics seminar here in Las Vegas. Daryl runs the highly popular Cagle.com website, built his own syndicate Cagle Cartoons, Inc which syndicates comics and columns to over 700 newspapers in North and Latin America. He is also past president of the…
Cam Millward was the final speaker on the first day of the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. Cam founded Canwest Editorial Services, one of the first pagination services for newspapers. Cam gave the audience a peak into the some of the layers of production that goes into getting comics from the cartoonist to…
Mark Anderson, the comic genius behind Andertoons, was the third speaker in the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. Mark majored in music in college and started his professional career in sales but his passion was always in cartooning. Wanting to do it professionally, he set goals for himself to produce more and more…
Amy Lago from the Washington Post Writers Group was the second speaker in the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. She gave a very frank presentation on the advantages and disadvantages of syndicating and self-syndication along with things to think about when submitting to a syndicate. As to things to think about when submitting,…
Today kicks of the two day Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas organized by Tundra creator Chad Carpenter and marketing guru Bill Kellogg. The two were also the first speakers each telling how they grew Tundra to produce a living outside of syndication. Chad talked about the first dozen years were he started the…
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has a nice summary of his presentation he gave back in February at the Success in Comics seminar. I must have done everything right, right? Not so much. When I take a good hard look at it, probably 95% of the things I’ve tried ended up failing. But the other 5%…
Last Sunday Tom Richmond gave attendees of the Success in Comics seminar a sneak peek at art he created for an upcoming MAD Magazine where he was asked to blend caricatures of Honey Boo Boo with the art and style of Bil Keane’s Family Circus. From his website: I have occasionally added cartoon characters in…
Another Learn to Draw installment from The Doozies creator Tom Gammill. This episode was previewed at The Success in Comics seminar in Vegas two weeks ago where Tom and Momma and Miss Peach creator Mell Lazarus spoke. In this episode, Mell wins his ninth Golden Doozie Award.
Chad Carpenter, the creator of Tundra sent this report to me. It was first posted on his Facebook fan club page. I first saw Tundra when my local paper The Standard Examiner bumped Bound and Gagged to make space. I’ve since learned that The Examiner was the first paper outside of Alaska to pick up…