The Cartoonist Studio has announced that its publishing arm Crazy Goat Publishing is three ebook graphic novels by Kory Merritt. Kory was the 2007 Locher Award winner and creator of The Lost Side of Suburbia of which these ebooks are from.The first ebook released is “Heckbender,” which features a child-eating monster. The second, “No Story, […]
Here’s a must read for any cartoonist contemplating creating and selling an ebook of their cartoons on Amazon’s Kindle market.Andrew Hyde, an self-published author, recently released his book “This Book About Travel” as an Apple iBook, Kindle ebook, Nook ebook, and as a downloadable PDF. He did all the usual self-promotion, built a website, engaged […]
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has created a iBook of his best 100 business cartoons and is selling it through the iTunes Book Store for $.99. The book is entitled, “The Andertoons Book of Business Cartoons.”
Neil Gaiman, author of short stories, comic books, graphic novels, and movies (with a long list of awards to go with those genres), was the commencement speaker at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA).In my book, this speech ranks up there with Steve Jobs’ now famous 2005 Stanford University speech. Worth the 20 minutes […]
Last night the National Cartoonists Society gathered in Las Vegas for their annual Reuben Award banquet. The top honor for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year went to MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond. Tom started his career doing caricatures and freelance work for magazines, publishers and advertisers. As a caricaturist, he has been honored by the […]
Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell by Dan CollinsDan Collins, perhaps best known for his cartoons in Hustler magazine, has created an eBook and is releasing them in both through iBookstore (iPad) and Amazon (Kindle) . The book is entitled, “Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell” and contains 100+ pages of […]
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Mellon Residential Fellowship Program for Arts Practice and Scholarship will be presenting an academic conference with some of the biggest names in comics: Lynda Barry,Alison Bechdel, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, […]
FoxTrot Pad PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the iTunes Book Store. He’s getting a lot of attention from Mac blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacGasm, and even a mention by the venerable John Gruber of DaringFireball.One of the latest is from TechCrunch: […]
Andertoons’ Mark Anderson takes a look at the newly released iBooks Author software from Apple as a way of creating an cartoon collection eBook.As I’m sure you’ve heard, Apple recently entered the textbook market in a big way. They’ve partnered with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, revamped the iBooks app/store, and created the […]
Reuters reports that Wimpy Kid, Inc. (Jeff Kinney owned entity that holds the Wimpy Kid copyrights) is suing Antarctic Press for trademark infringement with its Diary of a Zombie Kid series . In addition to depicting a backpack-carrying protagonist, the suit alleges, the “Zombie Kid” cover artwork bears a startling similarity to the “Wimpy Kid” […]
Tim O’Shea talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler to talk about the various projects he’s released including I Thought You Would Be Funnier, a Little Golden Book parody Grandpa Won’t Wake Up co-created Oil and Water. Tim O’Shea: Not many folks can say they’ve won an Eisner, but this year’s was actually […]
From Fantagraphics Books:We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are pleased to offer a new series of mini-comics featuring fascinating, previously-unpublished (or at least way out of print) sketches, drawings and even full stories, which are available for FREE with the purchase of their matching tie-in books, or […]
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this admission is a life lesson for all of us.“I always think of myself as a cartoonist who couldn’t crack into newspapers,” he said recently by phone. Kinney created the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” main […]
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond recently released his new book The Mad Art of Caricature!. It’s a great book that I highly recommend you check it out and buy. A notable book like this certainly could have found a print publisher, but Tom opted to explore and publish through self-publishing. He posted […]
Cory Doctrow over at Boing Boing writes about a new collection of lost, unpublished or early work for Dr. Suess that was recently released. The book is entitled, “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories“. Cory writes:The publication of a new Seuss collection is reason to celebrate in and of itself, and Bippolo Seed is […]