I linked to a story last year in The San Diego Union-Tribune regarding Luann creator Greg Evan turning writing responsibilities over to his daughter Karen Evans. At the end of the story is a line about how Greg would like to turn the artwork over to his grandson. This week, the strip is being guest […]
This week’s sponsor are the wonderful people over at Universal Uclick. As you know, Universal runs GoComics – the largest comics portal in the world. They provide the digital home to the largest number of newspaper comics and a growing number of the most popular web comics on the web. With such a variety of […]
From The Age (Australia): Oliver Buckworth, 28, claims he was removed from a Gold Coast-bound flight after a fellow passenger saw the contents of his notebook over his shoulder and informed Tiger staff. “The irony is I was writing a sentence about the absurdity of the fearmongering when we live in such a happy country […]
Check out Newsday cartoonist Matt Davies ink and color his cartoon. Always in awe of those who color by hand.
A big thanks goes out to Universal Uclick for sponsoring the blog this week. Universal is the owner of GoComics, the largest comics portal in the world with some of the most recognized and famous comics (and webcomics). The portal itself has over a billion (with a B) page views a year. That?s a lot […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Oh, the overwhelming Tall Tale Features-ness of this episode is staggering! 6 years ago, I started Tall Tale Radio, and now have reached 200 episodes! The podcast started because Mike […]
Ottawa Citizen editorial cartoonist Cam Cardow has posted a video showing how he creates the Duoshade effect in Photoshop. Doushade was a paper that when a special chemical was applied, a diagonal shading line appeared under the pen and ink drawings creating a shading effect. The paper was discontinued in 2009.Here’s Cam’s video:
Daily Cartoonist regular reader Mark Stokes has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publishing of his first ever collection Zombie Boy Comics Volume 1: Some Kind of Horrible. From his description:Zombie Boy Comics follows the afterlife and times of “living challenged” Morgan McCorkindale, a.k.a. Zombie Boy, and his pals Duncan, Beatrice, Claustria, Boog and […]
Nick Anderson with other contestants vying for Hottest Bachelor in Houston. Click for larger, shirtless (and tan line) magic.When an editorial cartoonist wins the Pulitzer, they’re assured their obituary’s first line will mention it. But if voting goes well for Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson, perhaps he’ll be better known as Hottest Bachelor in […]
This is cool. Animation director Genndy Tartakovsky has been working on a Popeye animated feature film for Sony Pictures Animation. Today they released an “animation test” – not the real voice talent or even scenes from the movie in production. But it’s cool nonetheless. Check it out:
From Publisher’s Weekly:According to Nielsen Bookscan?s numbers, the graphic novel category is up 10% this year over 2013. As of September 14, graphic novels have sold 5,618,000 copies in 2014, up from 5,116,000 in 2013. The number matches up with the most recent figures from Diamond Comics Distributors, which showed graphic novels up 3.81% YTD […]
Venezuelan editorial cartoonist Rayma Suprani has allegedly been fired for depicting former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s signature flat-lining on an electrocardiograph as a way to depict the country’s national health care system.From the New York Times:El Universal representatives were unavailable for comment on Thursday. One newspaper employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cartoonist […]
The Colorado Independent, a non-profit newsroom, is raising money to get Mike Keefe drawing editorial cartoons again. Mike is a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist who worked for the Denver Post for over 35 years before taking a buy-out in 2011. If the $12,500 is funded, Mike will produce a national or local cartoon each […]
Funny and depressing at the same time. Steve Cutts shows us where all our favorite 1980’s comic characters are today. Where Are They Now? from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.
Chris Ware has been given prime color real estate in The Guardian to produce a graphic novella called The Last Saturday that will run each week this fall and online here.From Fast Company:The newspaper comic strip isn’t exactly dead, but it’s safe to say that it’s reeling. The decline of newsprint comics dates back well […]