Here’s the run down of the latest changes in the comics that newspapers are running:The Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY) is publishing a local comic described as a Doonesbury-esque strip on “local issues, politics and events regarding the Adirondack Park.” It’s called Parkview. Runs for 10 weeks.Here’s a preview of the first.Here’s a link to where […]
Saturday, I posted a response by Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons regarding that day’s shooting in Tucson that has placed Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital, killed a federal judge and five other individual. David, moments after the shooting on CNN said in part:“The right in Arizona, and I’m speaking very broadly, […]
Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons was interviewed by CNN on the shooting of Congressman Giffords. Daryl Cagle has quotes from the interview:The right in Arizona, and I?m speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state. It?s stunning because Congressman Giffords was a centrist, […]
While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for […]
Jim Romenesko reports over on Poynter an email from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth that they’ve returned to profitability in 2010.From that email: That said, we accomplished a tremendous amount last year and have strong results to show for it. I committed to Don and to the Board that we would return to profitability by […]
The next Ice Age (Ice Age: Contintal Drift) movie is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. Here’s the animated short teaser now in theaters:
James Sturm, co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, was featured twice today. Tom Spurgeon posted an extensive interview with Jim about his work, the school, and his new book Market Day. Next the Star (Malaysia) features James in an article entitled: Getting to know cartoonist James Sturm – covers the same topics in a […]
Interesting exhibit running in Boston entitled, “All Works Guaranteed Stolen” showcases “work that ranges from clever takeoffs and pastiches of existing art and entertainment to pieces that merely mimic, modify, or even just physically enlarge their source material.” “The right of artists to use the pieces of their society in their art is being significantly […]
I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson:Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others we […]
I’ve written about the troubles of the Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man before. It’s now fodder for The Onion.A quote from their article: Spider-Man is supposed to swing down to the stage and deactivate a nuclear bomb, but his wires got tangled up, and by the time he got there and remembered the disarm code, it […]
Apple launched their Mac Store today. The new store is the iTunes App Store equivalent for your Mac software. I’m assuming over time a lot of the iPhone, iPad apps will be ported over. I love my ArtRage app on my iPad – so I went looking to see what’s available in the new Mac […]
Wisconsin Public Radio featured two comic scholars (Gene Kannenberg, comic scholar; former Chair of the International Comics Art Festival and author of ComicResearch.com and Alex Buchet, American-French comic lover and scholar) as they talk about the international known comic Tintin. Tintin is the most well-known comic character worldwide, comparable in popularity only to Mickey Mouse. […]
Lot of discussion has been had on the importance of DIY book printing to create high profit margins. A few have discussed the finer points of the process of doing it yourself. John Hambrock has posted the first in a series about how he went about printing the first The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee […]
The Daily Freeman profiles the career of New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly
Hollywood Reporter reports that DreamWorks Animation has bought the rights to the comic book Maintenance. The comic, published by Oni in December, 2006, followed the exploits of two janitors who work for TerroMax, Inc., the world’s biggest and best evil science think tank. When they’re not dealing with toxic spill monsters and menial time machine […]