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, she […]
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 […]
Ironic that two of the artists behind the infamous Mohammed cartoons would be speaking at Yale, whose publishing house that bears its name, refused to include the cartoons in a book about the cartoons. Kurt Westergaard and Lars Hedegaard will speak to Yale students on October 1, three days after the book, “The Cartoons That […]
This weekend is the long anticipated Comic Seminar hosted by the Tundra folks, Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg in Las Vegas. As an invited guest I will be blogging some of the things that are discussed over the weekend. Those that follow me on Twitter will probably get the most play by play action, with […]
Tom Richmond has posted an email he’s received from the Board of the Illustrators’ Partnership on the status of the Orphan Works bill and the implications on how the lawsuits against Google for it’s digitizing books will affect copyright law. In 2004, the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers sued Google for copyright infringement. […]
Several members of the National Cartoonist Society boarded the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard to spend a day drawing cartoons for service men returning from pre-deployment certification exercises. Cartoonists in the group included Jeffrey Bacon (a retired Navy captain and the creator of the Navy Times’ Broadside and Marine Corps Times’ Greenside.), Chad Carpenter, […]
Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers has front row seats to the biggest international political show going on right now – the G-20 Summit. Check out his sketch blog for comics and commentary. He’s curated the “Drawn to the Summit” exhibit currently running at the Warhol Museum featuring cartoons from around the world which […]
Comic Strips» Dear Mexican defends Garfield’s use of the sombrero.» The first ever exhibit of creator Sandra Bell-Lundy’s original artworks will be on display at Artway Gallery in Brampton, Ontario just west of Toronto, from October 31 to November 27, 2009. Editorial Cartooning» Pulitzer Prize-winning seattlepi.com editorial cartoonist David Horsey will be the featured speaker […]
“Jolly” Roger Bradfield, the creator of the syndicated comic Dooley’s World (1972-1978) is coming out of retirement to work on a sequel to his 1967 book “Pickle-Chiffon Pie” after a resurgence of interest in the original book. During his retirement, his old books quietly resurfaced. “His book ‘Pickle-Chiffon Pie’ was one of the most requested […]
The 2009-2010 Board of Directors for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists have been announced. The new leadership includes:President: Rex Babin President-Elect: Steve Kelley Vice President: Mikhaela Reid Secretary-Treasurer: V. Cullum Rogers Directors: Mark Fiore, Jeff Parker, Mike Thompson Ted Rall will also serve on the 2009-2010 Board as Immediate Past President. During the AAEC […]
Elderberries cartoonist Corey Pandolph is taking the strip into a depressing story-line. Really, the story-line is about Boone dealing with depressions. The topic is close to Corey who admits that he too falls victim to depression. Over on the GoComics blog he explains, This year, when the crippling anvil of depression hit, I remembered that […]
Graphix is discontinuing it’s Duoshade and Unishade products. The specialty paper allows a developer solution to be brushed over an inked drawing creating horizontal lines for shading. You can see the product effectively in Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez’s work (see example). According to Hayley Prendergast, President of Grafix, Consumer Products, the production […]