For those of you into animation, The History Channel and Aniboom are sponsoring a competition for you to animate 30 seconds of a famous historical speech and send it in. The speeches are provided, voiced by Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman and others. The five first cut finalists receive $5,000 to finish […]
A recent ad campaign by Jamba Juice to promote their lunch specials appears highly similar to David Rees’ “Get Your War On” webcomic style which has David concerned that it might appear that he’s involved with the campaign, even though “Get Your War On” was retired in January. Rees, who started making clip-art comics while […]
Univeral Uclick and Mark Tatulli have announced the first ever look-alike contest. Contestants are encouraged to do their best to mimic Lioâ??s trademark hair spike and capture the mischievous spirit of the weirdest little kid on the comics page and send the photos in before September 28th. Judges at Universal will narrow the selection with […]
From Daryl Cagle we learn that the The Jerusalem Post has dropped Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen. Yaakov has drawn the strip for the Post for the last 35 years.
Congratulations to Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds who are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the launch of their strip, Tank McNamara.
Drew Litton, former Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist, has started a new blog called “Creator’s Incubator” – a blog dedicated to the creative process, tips and techniques. The blog’s audience is geared to cartoonists, writers and songwriters. He’s inviting any professional cartoonist to email him a list of five things that help them create which […]
Comic Strips» The Aaugh Blog has an interesting post on who draws (and doesn’t draw) the Peanuts characters that appear in merchandising.» Who does this @#$@ think he is? Sure we all have lists of comics we don’t like, but comics favorites are so subjective, it’s hard for anyone to really argue who’s work is […]
About a month ago, I reported that Ruben Bolling was auctioning off space in his Tom The Dancing Bug for a product placement. The proceeds are to be donated to “The Committee To Protect Journalist.” He reports that the final bid was $277, but did not disclose the winner.The product will run in an “unobtrusively […]
I mentioned this back in February, but it’s worth repeating. IDW Publishing will release the complete Bloom County collection – every strip daily and Sunday in chronological order. The book is entitled “The Bloom County Library” and is a five volume set due out in October. The feature by Berkeley Breathed ran from from 1980 […]
I’ve always maintained that the webcomic business model will have successfully matured when it outgrows the do-it-yourself business stage that it’s currently in and support industries are able to move in and allow artists to do focus on being artists and businessmen take care of business. There are several such businesses that have cropped up, […]
E&P reports that The Star-Ledger of Newark received about 1,200 complaints from readers after they dropped six comics and moved one page of comics to another location in the paper.Editor Jim Willse told E&P, “Virtually no one liked the change.” Big understatement. Two comics will return. The change saves the paper $300,000 a year.
I received an email from Guy and Rodd, creators of Brevity, alerting me that yesterday’s strip wasn’t their first swing at the joke. The first was nixed by editors. Here’s the one as it was originally drawn. They also note that the woman in the strip looks suspiciously like a character from For Better of […]
The New York Times reports that mobile devices is re-surging the popularity of Manga. For a variety of reasons, the mobile version has manga booming again. In the year ending in March, Japanese manga publishers raked in Â¥32.9 billion in revenue, up 43 percent from the previous year and from next to nothing in 2003, […]
The perpetual 15 year old, Jeremy of the comic strip Zits, will be allowed to turn 16 opening up a whole new landscape of comic material. When asked why they decided to tamper with the age of their strip’s star after 12 highly successful years in syndication, Scott and Borgman responded, “About the meanest thing […]
Google’s personal homepage feature, “iGoogle,” now allows you to select from 50 comic themes which include several comic book characters, syndicated comics and webcomics. Among the syndicated features themes include, Peanuts, Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, Nancy, Garfield, Ziggy, Mutts, Popeye and Krazy & Ignatz (Krazy Kat). To use the theme, you’ll need a google account […]