A “thank you” documentary about the effect of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes has had on readers and fans is in production for a 2011 release. A teaser has been released recently (see below).Teaser from DMW on Vimeo.The producers are using social media to allow fans to participate in the project using YouTube videos, photos, […]
Tom Spurgeon has begun what I’d consider a massive project – naming the top 100 comics for the years 2000-2009. The categories he’s outlined so far include: Anthologies, Archival Editions, Original Long-Forms and Definitive Collections, Comic Books, Manga, Newspaper, On-Line, and Works On The Subject Of Comics. He’s already penned an impressive list of comics […]
Fans of serial comics may want to settle in for a longer than usually story-line that launches today for The Phantom. Tony DePaul, the current writer for the strip, was quoted as saying that he was going to “shake things up a bit” and begin a 20 month story-line opposed to the normal 17 week […]
Digital Comics Store for PSP Coming in DecemberThis December, you will be able to purchase and download from over 1000 digital comics on PlayStation Store (on the PSP and Media Go). Weâ??ve partnered with one of the leading comic publishers, Marvel Entertainment, to bring you the biggest names in comics, including Spider-Man, X-Men and the […]
Books» The Houston Chronicle reviews “I Did it His Way”, the latest B.C. collection of Johnny Hart’s best-known religious cartoons.Comic Strips» Rich Tennant’s 5th wave is no longer on GoComics.com. The comic is still in syndication, but at Rich’s request, it won’t be featured gocomics anymore.Editorial Cartooing» Daryl Cagle announces that Mike Scott will now […]
The latest “Learn to Draw” series with The Doozies creator Tom Gammill and guest starring F Minus creator Tony Carrillo.
Earlier this month I reported that Ruben Bolling had concluded his product placement action in his Tom the Dancing Bug comic. The money raised would be donated to The Committee To Protect Journalist. He reports that the final bid was $277. Yesterday, he announced who the winner was. After a winner was declared, and I […]
Earlier in June, I mentioned that it was announced that Archie would pop the question to Veronica in an upcoming six part series of the Archie comic book. This series kicks off this week. There’s been a number of press write-ups. Here are a few of them: » NPR: Archie Marries Veronica! Not a Dream! […]
Bill Wyman published an insider’s view of the failing newspaper industry at Splice Today. We’ve heard most of the reasons he presents, but they bear repeating in light of our ongoing discussions here about what to do about it.1. Consumers don’t pay for news. They have never paid for news. Remember â??shoppers,â? the poorly designed […]
Andrews McMeel Universal, the parent company of Universal Uclick, has announced the launch of a talent search along with Amazon.com to find “the first Comic Strip Superstar.” The winner will receive a publishing contract from Andrews McMeel Publishing, a $5,000 advance from Universal Uclick and a monthly stipend for the development of 20 comic strips […]
Comic Books» Steven Kirk has an interesting post about the legal layout of the Superman character. He writes that in 2013, the Siegel family regains some of the rights to the super-hero, but only those parts that were created before the character was bought by DC Comics. Parts of the Superman universe (Kryptonite, other characters, […]
As of today, all of Corey Pandolph’s comics, Toby, Robot Satan, Greene with Envy, Barkeater Lake and The Elderberries will only be featured on GoComics.com. In a recent blog post, Corey said the decision was the result of an effort to try to simplify his life.He writes: This will greatly reduce my workload, as I […]
Chowder creator C.H. Greenblatt has confirmed on his blog that the show has been canceled.We’re still finishing up lots of good episodes. I think you’ll see that we hit a really good groove third season. My biggest worry before we were cancelled was what would happen to the crew, but luckily, a large chunk of […]
Did Stephan Pastis insert the “F-word” in Tuesday’s Pearls Before Swine. Readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch claim that it is there, the copy editor is said to be embarrassed. It made the local newscast. I don’t have access to the print version, but the online version isn’t detailed enough to make it out – […]
On one hand, you gotta admire the tenacity of Nevin Martell who set out to write a biography of Bill Watterson. He could of made his life easier by picking someone more forthcoming or cooperative such as Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes” subtitled “The unconventional story of Bill […]