Dan Piraro has launched an iPhone app for his comic Bizarro. The app takes advantage of the subscription capabilities of the app store to charge $1.99 a year. With the Bizarro app, a NEW COMIC is added EVERY DAY! (The same comic that appears in newspapers.) PLUS, at any given time there is a YEAR’S […]
Mistake or not, the first run of issue 602 of Captain American just became more valuable than otherwise would be after Tea bagger references were discovered and corrected for future editions. Tea Party Coalition members demand apology from Marvel. In issue No. 602 of Captain America, “Two Americas, Part One,” Captain America and his partner […]
Those in the New York area might be interested in this exhibit of original Charles Addams work: Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings […]
Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur is officially 18 years old (as of yesterday). Here is the debut strip:A couple of notes about Non Sequitur. It’s one of those strips that makes me wish I didn’t have to wait until the creator dies or retires before a complete volume can be printed.And My first syndicates strip submission […]
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Politico, has won this year’s Herblock Prize for 2010. Matt was a finalist in last year’s Pulitzer Prize. According to a story on Politico, his editor congratulated Matt for being “at the top of his game and enjoying it more than ever at a moment when his work matters more […]
Keeping an eye on the upcoming release of the iPad and its impact on newspapers, we get this rumored debate within the New York Times. On one side, a Times source explains, you have print circulation, which thinks it should control the iPad since it’s just another way to distribute the paper. They’d like to […]
Paul Jon was interviewed by the Omaha World-Herald. Makes me wonder if some of that rigid military life helped create this routine. Q. Do you work ahead? A. Right now, I’m about five months ahead in the dailies and the Sundays and even more ahead with strips that I’ve got sketched out. The good news […]
Good news from the people at GoComics. We at GoComics want to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Since it would be impractical to send each and every one of our users a big box of gamble chocolate or a even a little candy heart stamped “U R COOL”, we’re offering all users 14 days […]
Kazu Kibuishi, the creator and editor of Flight series, has announced that volume eight will be the last volume of the anthologies. The next couple of years will also mark the end of the Flight series. We will be wrapping it all up with Flight Volume Eight. We had a pretty good run, but it […]
Seven Stories Press has begun running a webcomic version of Stephanie McMillan’s graphic novel “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial” (co-created with Derrick Jensen). The comic updates Tuesdays and Thursdays in full color. A French version of the printed book is also available.As an aside, Stephanie was […]
Universal Uclick editor John Glynn reports that Universal Press Syndicate is celebrating 40 years in business. Money was tight in the beginning, and Andrews and McMeel didn’t have the funds to compete with the fancy New York and Chicago offices of the big syndicates. They initially worked in a makeshift office over O’Briens bar near […]
The 2010 Glyph Comics Awards nominees have been announced. The Glyph Award recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year.Story of the YearLuke Cage Noir; Mike Benson & Adam Glass, writers; Shawn Martinbrough, artistThe Original Johnson; Trevor von Eeden, writer and artistUnknown Soldier #13-14; Joshua […]
Yesterday, Evil Inc. creator Brad Guigar celebrated 10 years of doing webcomics. His first foray was a strip called Greystone Inn which ran for five-and-a-half years between 2000 and 2005. In addition to his current strip, Evil Inc. he also produces Courting Disaster. He was nominated for an Eisner in 2007 for a comic entitled […]
Last month while Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price was in Cuba on a cultural and art exchange, she had Mo Willems take over the strip for the week. Mo’s work appears starting today. Mo is best known for his children’s book writing and illustrating for which he won the 2004 Caldecott for “Don’t Let […]
Yesterday, Meet the Press host David Gregory displayed a Mike Keefe cartoon without citing the creator. According to Rob Tornoe, this isn’t the first time. “Too many mainstream media folks treat cartoons like they’re shells found on a beach or forwarded e-mail attachments,” said John Cole, the staff cartoonist at the Scranton Times-Tribune. “They wouldn’t […]