Today is the national debut of Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog – at least in print syndication. The Times-Tribune picked it up and dropped Arlo and Janis. They’ve also picked up the Sunday Bleeker.The Contra Costa Times has picked up Pickles after several months of trying to find a Cathy replacement. In the reader poll, Pickles […]
A cautionary tale for anyone wanting to use PayPal to raise money for charity: Cartoonist’s Toys for Tots funds deniedUriarte said he wished he could have been part of that effort, but his PayPal account was flagged after thousands poured in during the first 48 hours. As a standard precaution to guard against illegal activities, […]
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 […]
Dilbert is getting a new manager. Universal Uclick will begin syndicating Scott Adam’s Dilbert in June and will take over Dilbert.com on January 1.This announcement is a big one and one wonders how United Media, who grew the famous office strip into one of the most widely syndicated strips in the world, could let it […]
As usual, I’m taking the last week in December off and will not be blogging (much). Those who follow me on Twitter or Facebook may have caught that there will be changes coming to the site soon. I’ll be working on those changes this week, but realistically with family in town, and a new puppy […]
Great news from the OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation has pledged $250,000 over five years to support the new Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum facility, part of the Sullivant Hall renovation at The Ohio State University. In recognition of this gift, the library’s seminar room […]
Korea Times reports that The Supreme Court has upheld a district court ruling fining cartoonist “Choi” 3 million won ($2,600) for “drawing a cartoon directing abusive words toward President Lee Myung-bak.” He drew the cartoon in June last year, depicting family members paying respect to a soldier’s monument, with an offensive comment against the President […]
Daryl Cagle compares and contrasts the ethical rules regarding staff cartoonists in the US vs in Slovakia: Shooty is certainly no fan of Fico, a former communist who clings to his totalitarian roots. In the last election Shooty made a plea for donations on his Facebook page and raised over 60,000 euros for a billboard […]
IDW has started releasing digital graphic novels every week for the iPad according to Comics Alliance. Just launched books include Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter and The Outfit, and Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County: the Complete Library Volume One. Each book contains all the material found in the print editions, all spectacularly formatted for full page reading […]