Thanks goes out to Tom Falco who is this week’s sponsor. Tom is the creator of the comic Tomversation. Tom has been doing comics and illustrations for 30 years and his work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and online such as the Miami Herald, Huffington Post, Examiner and Webcomic Alliance. He is also the […]
Scott Bateman’s infographic on the recent cold spell that he posted on his Tumblr site last Friday ended up in USA Today yesterday – kind of. The infographic that ran in USA Today was cleaned up (language), but essentially left intact (see below). The incident was reported by Jim Romensko. USA Today’s editor-in-chief David Callaway […]
I just looked at the list of top grossing movies in 2013. Interestingly five of the ten have some sort of connection to comics, graphic novels, animation or comic books. Rank Title 2013 Gross 1 Iron Man 3 $408,992,272 2 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $400,088,390 3 Despicable Me $367,860,095 4 Man of Steel $291,045,518 […]
Matt Bors, who edits The Nib, over on Medium, has announced a new line up of regular cartoonists for 2014. Cartoonists include: Liza Donnelly, Rich Stevens, Ruben Bolling, Emily Flake, Brian McFadden, Zach Weiner, J.J. McCullough, Tom Tomorrow, Jen Sorensen, Scott Bateman, Erika Moen, Ryan Pequin, Ted Rall and Shannon Wheeler.And wait – there’s more… […]
South Florida Business Journal profiles Hugh MacLeod who has carved out a niche in the business world creating inspirational cartoons. I remember seeing Hugh’s early work and it’s cool to see where he’s taken it. MacLeod and his company Gaping Void have landed big corporate clients who seek him out to boost or change their […]
Eric Jaffe explores the idea that humans are hardwired for the visual language of comics.Language is more than just a series of words strung together. A sentence must have some essential structure, some system of rules governing words and clauses–a grammar. You don’t have to be Strunk or White to recognize this system at work; […]
On the wake of the Ohio State University Festival of Comic art comes the announcement that two new courses on the topic of comics will be offered in the spring. The classes are offered through the English department and are entitled, “Pictures That Tick ? Difficult History in Comics” and “Comics & Time”.From the description […]
Shaenon Garrity has a great article in The Comics Journal about the recent experience of Rachel Dukes, whose cartoon went viral through various social media sites. The disturbing thing was how many times her signature and URL were scrubbed from the cartoon before being posted. With a little detective work, Dukes determined that the strip […]
I’ve seen something like this before, but it’s always fun to see.Via LaughingSquid
Ethan Gach writing at Forbes: Unlike when Apple debuted the original iPad for $499 in 2010, the market is now saturated with models at every price point, including a range economy tablets like the Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD, and iPad Mini. As the technology has become cheaper, it?s also become more widespread, with tablet […]
The National Cartoonists Society is selling T-shirts. These shirts were designed by Sergio Aragones, Patrick McDonnell, Matt Groening and Graham Nolan for San Diego Comic-Con. You can buy them off their website. Proceeds from the sales go to NCS Art Student Scholarships. Prices start at $25.
Just a reminder if you’ve not yet donated or even if you have, any new donors this week or if any of the previous donors increase their donation by $10, I’ll send you the eBook I’m creating containing my best cartoons. Most of you probably haven’t seen my work.Here’s a sample of my cartoons.Editorial cartoons […]
I told everyone to get to this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art in Columbus. With the grand opening of the Billy Ireland Library and Museum and the duly deserved praise for the library’s founder Lucy Shelton Caswell, this was the year to be there. But alas, I couldn’t be there myself and had to jealously […]
Tom Richmond joins several other big name artists on a new educational online art school called Taught By A Pro. The other artists include Ruben Aquino, Tom Bancroft, Tony Bancroft, Terry Dodson, Michel Gagné and John Pomeroy.They have three courses up right now. Courses are reasonably priced at $10. Taught By A Pro from Taught […]
I missed this yesterday when it was streaming live, but glad that it’s available. Cartoonists Michael Jantze and Tom Fishburne joined up for a Google+ event to talk about building brands around their creative work.