Last June I wrote about the launch of The Cartoonist Studio – which back then included eight cartoonists. The Studio is now about 23 cartoonists strong and now includes an online store for their books, greeting cards, limited edition drawings and other memorabilia. The new news from the group is the announcement of a contest […]
Wise words from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo regarding money with little creative freedom, or less money and more creative freedom.On a side note, there is one valuable piece of information I’ve learned from these last 2 decades, and it’s perhaps the most profitable bit of knowledge of all, and it’s this: I have been […]
Ever wonder why the now infamous Mohammad cartoons printed in the Danish newspaper in September 2005 didn’t turn into the bloody riots until February 2006? The latest Wikileaks dump of 400,000 documents from US diplomatic cables contains information that the Syrian government (abbreviated as “SARG” in the documents) issued a “strongly worded directive” to imams […]
All Things D is reporting that according to their sources, News Corp.’s iPad only news publication dubbed “The Daily” is set to launch January 17. Given that News Corp. has hired dozens of blabby journalists for the Daily, and interviewed many more, lots of other details about the app/service have leaked out already: It will […]
Nice write-up for Matthew Inman, the creator of the Oatmeal over at the Economist: The simplicity of Mr Inman’s drawing style, coupled with an innocent rowdiness?think of Michael J. Fox or Lee Evans swearing?has made his site popular. It is visited by 3m-4.5m viewers each month. Most visitors look at several pages. The site debuted […]
Women’s Wear Daily reports that despite the high hopes for the iPad, the magical device has not been the boon for magazines as hoped. Many magazines that are available on the iPad, such as Esquire, People and The New Yorker, have not posted their digital single-issue sales to the ABC. But Vanity Fair sold 8,700 […]
Five individuals were arrested in what The Danish Security and Intelligence Service suspect was an “imminent” plot to “kill as many of the people present as possible” at newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The Jyllands-Posten was the paper that printed the now famous Mohammad cartoons in 2005. From the Global Post: PET said the Danish arrests, made at […]
“Sheldon” is so often spot-on about literature that Dave Kellett has released a book of strips entirely on the subject. Well, a lot of the strips are about “Lord of the Rings,” but that’s as much literature as “Curious George” or “Moby Dick.”I’m not trying to start out the post with a product-plug, but it […]
I like it when a cartoonist reads my mind, and this New Year’s, I was suddenly struck by the number of things it’s supposed to be good luck to eat at the first of the year.And today, Bud Grace steps in with a “Piranha Club” that takes up that ball and runs with it. This […]
This particular installment isn’t exactly a boffo laff fest, but it’s a good strip-of-the-day for New Year’s, because it looks like Norm Feuti is moving “Retail” in a new direction for 2011. On his blog, he says, “After 5 years, I think it’s time to shake things up a little!”It makes me nervous because I […]