Rob Tornoe reports that The Washington Post has merged two of it’s properties – The Washington Post Writers Group and The Washington Post News Service into one media service called The Washington Post News Media Services. Here’s how Rob explains it:The Washington Post took a major step forward to combat these trends by creating The […]
The final tally of Matthew Inman’s fundraiser for National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society is $220,024 – 11 times more than the $20,000 he hoped to raise in response to a legal defamation threat by FunnyJunk.com. Over 14,000 individuals donated money to the campaign. On the legal front, after being sued by Charles […]
And if ever an idea pops into your head without having to dig for it – and this sometimes happens – it’s rarely usable straight out of the gate. Ideas need to go through a process of development to become usable, and sellable. Those tools I’ve mentioned are in fact actual methods used to do […]
Reporting Texas, a student publication from the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, has a favorable follow up article to the Stephanie Eisner controversy earlier this spring with her Trayvon Martin cartoon that sparked a campus and national uproar. Her cartoon appeared in The Daily Texan and was meant as a […]
Interesting art by Michael Paulus who sketches the skeletal structure of famous cartoon characters such as Charlie Brown, Lucy, Betty Boop, Fred Flinstone, Hello Kitty, Tweety Bird and many others.Via Florian Satzinger
Tom Gammill showed us this Learn to Draw at the Reuben Awards. Plot: Tom want’s his son to work on The Doozies so he can take it over when he retires. To provide inspiration, he visits Mort Walker and his sons who are involved in the Beetle Bailey comic.
Stephan Pastis is taking his game to Pittsburgh. He’ll be at the Toonseum this weekend for two engagements (first one is already sold out) – both require tickets. According to the promotional material, Stephan will talk about his strip, his conversion from lawyer to cartoonist and show some of his best work. A book signing […]
Many comic creators are turning to Kickstarter to fund publishing book collections and other projects. Rich Burlew raised $1.2 million; Jake Parker raised $80,000. Those are some of the major success stories. Seth Godin, author and authority on marketing in the internet era, has written an article worth reading on why some Kickstarter projects fail.Seth:Kickstarter […]
The Guardian has a great interview with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat whose hands were beaten and left for dead last August by pro-regime thugs trying to quiet his work. In this interview Ali gives a first hand account of what happened. He also talks about returning to cartooning after and it’s physically painful to draw […]
I gave Stephan Pastis a hard time when his last Pearls Before Swine collection came out because the title was so long (Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left Hand: A Pearls Before Swine Collection) and the fact that it seemed like he came out with a book every other month. […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley will be one of five individuals honored this weekend for the 2012 Mayor’s Artist Awards. Pat is being recognized in the category of literary arts for his editorial cartooning. The awards are given to “individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the artistic landscape of the […]
Pixar will release their sequel to “Monsters Inc.” next summer called “Monsters University” that tells the tale of Mike and Sulley during their university years. Looks like most if not all of the major characters (and voice talent) from Inc. will be back in the sequel. Here’s the teaser they released today:Look for the movie […]
Despite great fame and fortune of creating and producing the longest running and most successful TV animation program in history, Matt Groening has quietly been drawing his alternative comic strip Life in Hell each week for 32 years. Until last week. He tell’s USA Today that the decision was to free up his time for […]
Casey Johnston (writing on ArsTechnica) has one of the best plain english pieces on why Funky Junk attorney Charles Carreon has named Indiegogo, National Wildlife Federation and to the American Cancer Society in his suit against Matthew Inman.The charges against Inman’s fundraising may be the most serious, but they’re also the oddest. Carreon says that […]
John Read, the publisher of Stay Tooned! magazine, has applied for a grant by Chase and LivingSocial for $250,000 and would like your support to qualify. To lend your support, visit missionsmallbusiness.com and login (they make you use your Facebook credentials which means they will have access to certain information about you such as your […]