The 2009 Glyph Award nominees have been announced. The nominees for 2009 are:Story of the YearBayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artistIncognegro; Mat Johnson, writer, Warren Pleece, artistJustice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artistPilot Season: Genius, Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artistPresidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, […]
» “Where the sidewalk Ends” author, cartoonist, poet Shel Silverstein has a limited engagement at the Raven theater February 5-28th in Chicago. The show is adult only and is described as “as zany, pointed, and poignant but significantly more perverse than his beloved childhood tales and poems.”» Speedbump creator Dave Coverly is profiled again, this […]
As mentioned before, Bill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy who has taken Chad Carpenter’s Tundra from a handful of papers to over 275 in just a couple of years will be hosting two 2-day seminars on how to self-syndicate your feature. Also invited to speak are known cartoonist/speakers who have found creative ways to monetize their […]
I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours with Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary last fall at a local anime convention in Salt Lake. He’s got a depth of knowledge of cartooning in general and webcomics specifically. He’s proof that one can make a living solely off the web if you’re willing […]
» The Examiner’s Nate Beeler was honored last night for having won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning.» This is unverified, but an individual has posted in the Google RACS group that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times has cut their comics pages today from three to two. The unlucky […]
New York Comic Con was last weekend and Publisher’s Weekly has a couple of articles on what the Con might mean for the market and economy. Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald report that this year’s attendance was up from last with 77,000 attendees this weekend. Brigid Alverson reported that children’s comics and graphic novels, especially […]
Webcomicker Paul Southworth has announced that he’s ending his long running comic Ugly Hill. Digital Strips talks to Paul about the decision and his work with Ugly Hill.Mike Rhode notes that the Examiner (D.C.) has increased Nate Beeler’s editorial cartoons to about 1/3 of the tabloid page size. Mason Mastroianni, who took over B.C. when […]
The Houston Chronicle has a profile of Jeff Kinney, the creator of the best selling series “Diary of a Whimpy Kid.” While I knew the book was a best seller (my kids have devoured the series of books), I wasn’t aware that the book was first a web product that is still doing well in […]
Mike LeFort of the Rapid City Journal has responded to a reader complaint over the use of the word “squaw” in J.C. Duffy’s Fusco Brothers strip last week. The word “squaw,” according to some activists is not a real native american word, but “a degrading sexual invective coined by Europeans based on an obscure Mohawk […]
Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson author of the Time cover story “How to Save Your Newspaper.”
1981 report on newspapers online is a story from KRON in San Francisco about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle’s forays into online news in 1981.
» Australian Special Broadcasting Service has posted a transcript of an interview it did with political cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Topics range from why he left Australia, his other artistic endeavors and of course his lament of the Bush administration.» Leigh Rubin, creator of Rubes will be the featured speaker at the Tulare Historical Museum.» In […]
There are a limited number of individuals who are doing both a syndicated comic and webcomic at the same time. Corey Pandolph does The Elderberries comic for Universal Press and then two webcomics, Bark Eater Lake and Toby, Robot Satan for the web. Last fall Norm Feuti launched a webcomic Gill in addition to his […]
Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly has an extensive write up in The Daily Gazette (NY) about his career in the comics.Regarding the book, Dave tells the Gazette that he has signed a four-book deal with New York publisher Henry Holt and Co., and is writing children’s books, with the first book is entitled, “Sue MacDonald […]
Several of the better-known weekly cartoonists have been sounding the alarms over alternate weekly newspapers dropping their features in order to adjust for the recession.
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is dishing out advice for would be comic creators. His first round of advice: “Don’t put effort into your work.” Here’s how you know when you’re funny: The ideas seem to flow from you naturally, almost without work. You’re more of a witness to it than a creator of […]