Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price has launched a new web site to showcase her comic feature. She told Dave Astor at E&P, “it will make it 10 times easier for me to make additions, post favorites, and maybe even blog a little.”On a Hilary-related-note, she’ll be at the The Cartoon Art Museum in San […]
Charlos Gary, creator of Working it Out and Cafe Con Leche, is planning on bringing back Diss N That two times a week select minority and alternative publications, according to his blog. The feature, he explains, originally appeared in the Chicago Defender four years ago. The premise of the panel is readers can send in […]
John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, has steered his comic into a two-week story-line about this year’s presidential election. The story ends on Nov. 4 – election day.Too bad John has to write so far in advance. Edison Lee would be a fun feature to follow if it could follow the […]
» The WebComic Reader Choice Awards were announced. Read the press release or visit Comixtalk for a nicely formatted list of the winners.» Pinkerton’s That’s The Smell Of Freedom collection is now shipping from Th3rd World Studios for only $3.99» Fans of John Lotshaw’s webcomic Accidental Centaurs will want to visit his site tomorrow. Have […]
Dave Astor, the senior editor at Editor and Publisher who covered syndication news, has been laid off in a cost-cutting measure. Dave has been with E&P since 1983 when he was hired as an associate editor to cover advertising and syndication. Shortly thereafter he began covering syndicate columnists and cartoonists exclusively. In 2000 he was […]
Charles Brubaker has been using Google’s news archive to look for gems of comic history. So far he’s found short run comics such as: Kelly & Duke (or just Kelly as it was titled in its first two years); Boomers Song by Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist David Horsey; Arnold by Kevin McCormick; Nutheads by famed […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has launched a new web site to promote his gag panel cartoons. The web site offers visitors the opportunity to search and purchase a reprint license for his freelance cartoons.
Clear Blue Water, which was dropped by Universal Press Syndicate last month, has been relaunched as a daily webcomic on Karen Montague-Reyes’ new web site.From her blog she writes about the transition:I am excited about the new direction and the new freedom this change brings with it, but sad about the fact that it won’t […]
Universal Press Syndicate’s uClick division has released a iGoogle gadget that allows anyone to view their favorite GoComics comic strips and editorial cartoons on their personalized iGoogle home pages.From the GoComic’s blog:We are truly excited here at Uclick to offer this new gadget, which was many months in the making. It gives iGoogle users direct […]
The legendary Opus is leaving the papers after November 2, but which features will take its place? I’ve asked the syndicates which features are being picked up to replace Berkeley Breathed‘s strip. Here’s what initial reports indicate:United Media reports that Pearls Before Swine has picked up four papers: Columbus Dispatch, Hartford Courant, Boulder (CO) Camera, […]
» Comic Book Resources reports that Cartoon Network is developing a number of webcomics for television that competed on Zuda. The first treatment is Peter Timony’s Night Owls. Other possible animated series include: Bayou, High Moon, Black Cherry Bombshells and Supertron.» Randall Munroe’s XKCD joked that someone should create a program that reads your YouTube […]
Hector Cant’u and Carlos Castellanos’ Baldo comic strip will feature independent comic book superhero “El Muerto” (The Dead One) during the last week of October and on the first and second day of November – the Day of the Dead holiday for many Latinos. “The Day of the Dead is a special holiday for lots […]
A couple of years ago, I posted a summary of an article that predicted the collapse of the print newspaper within a decade. We’ve had this conversation on this blog since then and the opinions vary. This last summer has been horrific for those in the business. Massive lay-offs, slumping stock values, unpaid debt. For […]
» Comic Book Resources looks at the career of Oliver Harrington.» Greeting card cartoonist Mike Scovel was named 2008 Cartoonist of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.» Frazz creator Jef Mallett is profiled in the San Antonio Express News.» Berkeley Breathed is scheduled to be at the Charles M. Schulz museum to talk […]
Starting this Wednesday, I’ll be starting what I hope to be a weekly feature called the Webcomic Weekly News Roundup where I post that goings on of new comics, books, and news in general about the webcomic industry. If you’ve got a news tip for your own comic or something that has been blogged about, […]