Tomorrow is the deadline set by The Hearst Corporation to have a buyer for their Seattle Post-Intelligencer or they’ll shut down the newspaper. Last week, news leaked that some 20 or so employees were offered a provisional contract to stay on in a web-only version of the newspaper indicating that perhaps the company will try […]
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) […]
Creators Syndicate has locked up five major Canadian dailies, becoming the exclusive provider of comic features for the Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun, Winnipeg Sun and Calgary Sun. All five papers print in tabloid form and are part of the Sun Media chain. The decision to go with a single syndicate was a business […]
Mashable, the blog about all things social media, has listed their favorite 20 webcomics. For years people have taken to the web to create comic strips without fear of censorship or having to answer to print media advertisers. Now there are thousands of web comics, making it difficult to know where to start if you’re […]
Our good friend Dave Astor, the senior editor at Editor & Publisher that was laid off last fall, is now writing his topical humor column for the Huffington Post. His first column appeared yesterday entitled “Layoffs for Leaders.”Dave told me in an email that the column will be periodic.
Daryl Cagle has posted news on his blog that Bill Schorr has decided to stop drawing editorial cartoons. United Media’s website only states that the decision was made for “personal reasons.” They syndicate is offering Bill Day as a substitute. The announcement was made yesterday and the last published cartoon by Bill appears to have […]
Ted Rall’s latest column bemoans the bland and tepid state of editorial cartooning in American right now and lays the blame on editors who “promote hack work over quality.” The state of political cartooning in 2009 mirrors that of radio in the late ’70s. Music was awesome, but the good stuff wasn’t on the radio. […]
» Ed Power and Melissa DeJesus, the co-creators of My Cage have teamed up again to produce a comic called Dracula vs Santa. The are using the comic in this month’s Zuda Comics webcomic competition. » C.F. Payne will be giving a presentation on the topic of the Orphan Works bill at this year’s Lakeland […]
The motion picture based on Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms is moving forward. Announced are the main actors that will be staring in the performance-capture movie. Seth Green will play the main character Milo and Mindy Sterling will play the alien leader of Mars. Also appearing include Dan Fogler and Joan Cusack who […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced that it is dropping its Sunday comic section from eight pages to six. As a result three comics are being dropped: Frazz, DeFlocked and Nights Lights and Fairy Flights. The paper notes that slimming the comics page will “simplify our press runs and produce the newspaper more efficiently.”
Michael Sisk, the creator of the WordPress plugin “WebComic” (and its companion theme “Inkblot”) is looking for beta testers for an updated release.He wanted to use WordPress to publish his own comic, but was wasn’t satisfied with the themes that other programmers had designed for that use. In his own words: “It became readily apparent […]
Nina Paley, an American cartoonist and animator, has released her feature length animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, online for free. “There is the question of how I’ll get money from all this. My personal experience confirms audiences are generous and want to support artists. Surely there’s a way for this to happen without centrally […]
Last Saturday as I was walking out of the supermarket, I was offered a free newspaper. It wasn’t totally free, I had to listen to a sales pitch on what a great deal a newspaper subscription is. After the frustration and sadness I felt the day before with the Rocky Mountain News closing, his pitch […]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich is adding his cartooning efforts to an advertising campaign to promote the future of print newspapers. The campaign is called The Newspaper Project spearheaded by a group of newspaper executives who “acknowledge the serious challenges facing the newspaper industry in today?s rapidly changing media world, [but] reject the notion […]
John Read’s third Stay Tooned! magazine is now shipping. I received mine a week ago and am continuously amazed at all of the hard work John puts into it. This issue has a great line up featuring Chad Carpenter (Tundra), magazine gag cartoonist Benita Epstein, freelance Nebraska cartoonist Paul Fell, character designer Cedric Hohnstadt, editorial […]