The Fox network has picked up a new show called Bordertown by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane has tapped comic strip creator La Cucaracha Lalo Alcaraz to be one of the writers. Lalo tweets that he’s already had his first day as a writer.From the Deadline Hollywood: Set in a fictitious desert town near […]
This year’s Fund The Daily Cartoonist has been amazing. The support from those donating money to the campaign for a better The Daily Cartoonist has been overwhelming. I’ve had terrific support from generous individuals and companies that have offered their original artwork, books, sketches and products to be given away as incentives and perks. It’s […]
Running my own crowd-funded campaign has made me more sensitive to the hard work that goes into a campaign. Here are a few that have come across my email that you might be interested in (after you support TDC???)Tundra creator Chad Carpenter is raising $50k for a live action comedy/suspense movie. With a few hours […]
The webcomic Penny Arcade turns 15 on the 18th of this month. We?ve done a lot in the last 15 years. We were among the first people to create webcomics. We?ve used the strip to tear down and applaud countless games. We accidentally sold the rights to the comic and then got them back. We […]
Last Monday, I posted an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe as a perk to a lucky (and quick!) donor to the Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. It was claimed in less than an hour.Susie MacNelly, who has always been a generous supporter of the blog, has offered to provide an original so we can do this […]
The Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign has 10 days left to meet the goal of $5,000. In my mind, this is the toughest stretch. Those who are regular readers or friends of the blog have already donated. This last stretch is convincing those who haven’t yet contributed that it’s worth it.Let me recap what I’m […]
Rachel Maddow dedicated 10-minutes to the comic book (and the recreation of the original) Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. The recreated comic book is being done by Congressman Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and cartoonist Nate Powell. The comic book is not only a history of the March, but has been used as […]
Starting next Monday, the JUMBLE puzzle will feature Guest Jumblers: Bizarro (Dan Piraro), FoxTrot (Bill Amend), Family Circus (Jeff Keane), Garfield (Jim Davis), , Rhymes with Orange (Hilary Price), and Speedbump (Dave Coverly). When Jumble artist Jeff Knurek invited some of his cartoon heroes to the Jumble space, Davis was happy to oblige. “Incorporating Garfield […]
The Republican (Springfield MA) is with out an art department after their illustrator, Bob Rich took a buy-out. From Bob: It was my choice, probably long over due. For a while now I have wanted to dive into the world of freelancing and, when the paper announced the buyout, I figured this was the time. […]
Back in September I reported that Universal Uclick was going to launch their first comic in three years. The feature was a Danish comic called Wumo that had a large following in Europe. You can read my interview with UU President John Glynn for details on the business side of the launch.On the creative side, […]
A UK comic book artist solved his dilemma of what tattoo he should have, but having four panels tattooed to his arm and then he fills them in with his own comics. A comic book artist by trade -and therefore well placed to design his own tattoo each day – Patrick Yurick wanted to combine […]
Yesterday I received a very large shipment of books and calendars from Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Publishing. They’ve provide a number of items for the fundTDC campaign I’m running on Indiegogo.Starting today, I’ve listed new perks at the $25 level. The Argyle Sweater 2014 Day to Day Calendar, Scott Hilburn The Mighty Alice, Richard Thompson The […]
The New York Times looks at the recent trend of politically based television shows – specifically Alpha House created by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. In the instances of ?House of Cards? and ?Alpha House,? they are even presenting the same general subject matter, albeit taking different approaches ? ?House of Cards? is a whodunit-to-whom drama […]
Click to see larger viewOf the cartoonists of the 20th century, Jeff MacNelly was a very influential one. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning – his first in 1972 when he was only 24. He was also twice awarded the National Cartoonists Society’s top price The Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]
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.