Industry news for the professional cartoonist
King Features comic subscription product, DailyInk, is raising their yearly rate on December 15 from $15 to $19.99. New subscribers or renewing subscribers signing up before December 15 save the extra $4.99. DailyInk has also announced that they are soon taking their comics to the iPhone, iPod and Ipad in the near future. The app…
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, has launched his first iPhone app. Designed for the iPhone, this new application is an impressive collection of KAL’s award winning political cartoons, hand-picked by the artist himself. Browse through 150+ examples of KAL’s work, including 29 color covers and illustrations from The Economist magazine….
A couple of weeks ago, I quietly released a mobile version of this blog for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, Palm Pre and Blackberry. The mobile version has all the capability of the full site including reading and posting comments. So, if you’re stuck at the grocery store, child’s dance/soccer/piano lessons, feel free to visit The…
RingTales and Metranome have partnered to release the first ever animated Dilbert and New Yorker “Cartoon a Day” integrated calendar for BlackBerry smart phones. The downloadable calendars combine the utility of a daily agenda with a daily animated New Yorker or Dilbert cartoons. The app also integrates with the native calendar application on the BlackBerry…
We’ve discussed the significance of comics going mobile here before. Most of the offerings out there are repurposed content. Comic panels seem to transfer well, but comic strips or comic book panes require cutting out art or scrolling/flipping to make them fit on the smaller screens. Norm Feuti, creator of Retail and Gill has experimented…
The New York Times reports that mobile devices is re-surging the popularity of Manga. For a variety of reasons, the mobile version has manga booming again. In the year ending in March, Japanese manga publishers raked in Â¥32.9 billion in revenue, up 43 percent from the previous year and from next to nothing in 2003,…
Universal Uclick and Stan Lee have partnered to debut his Stripperella in a direct-to-iPhone release. The mobile comic book is a four series comic written by Stan with art by Anthony Winn. Striperella is about Exotica Jones, a motorcycle-riding exotic dancer who fights crime as Stripperella. From the press release: “Some people think Stripperella is…
Chad Carpenter’s Tundra is now available on the iTunes App Store as a iPhone/iPod Touch app. They have released two versions – a free app with 25 comics in it and a $.99 app with 100 of his comic. Over the last couple of months, I’ve downloaded a few comic apps to see how each…
Jason Ankeny writes over on the Fierce Mobile Content blog that he believes that the comics future is best served on the mobile platform like Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPhone. Unlike webcomics which has “proven a mixed bag both creatively and commercially,” both platforms support a revenue model of readers purchasing the e-book (or app)…
I don’t know if Scott Adams frequents The Daily Cartoonist and saw our discussion last week on newspaper trends, but he’s waded into the discussion by posting his prediction on the future of newspapers. In short it will happen within your next 2 mobile phone upgrades. I predict that the end of printed newspapers will…
I noticed gocomics.com when I was visiting Gardfield‘s web site a couple of days ago, so I assumed that GoComics was an established product/feature, but the press release announcing the services hit the wire today. From the press release: With a huge list of popular comic strips, GoComics lets fans put their favorite characters on…
Peanuts has dominated the Daily Cartoonist postings this last two weeks, but here goes another one: Namco America has announced a deal with United Media to bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang to mobile starting in Spring 2006. No information was given as to which phones or phone carriers would…
But first, this … Having used Chip Bok‘s cartoon yesterday to illustrate conservatives who dismiss the revelations in the Atlantic because of (fairly standard) anonymous sources, it’s only fair to note that he posted this that morning. Fair enough, Chip. Now let’s dispense with politics and enjoy some Friday Funnies. Granted, Candorville often riffs…
Comic historian Brian Walker talks about his exhibit of cartoon art at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and growing up surrounded by professional cartoonists. Looks like the video is shot with a mobile phone, so audio isn’t fantastic, but audible. Via Mike Lynch
The Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign has 10 days left to meet the goal of $5,000. In my mind, this is the toughest stretch. Those who are regular readers or friends of the blog have already donated. This last stretch is convincing those who haven’t yet contributed that it’s worth it. Let me recap what…