Universal Uclick is attending this year’s San Diego Comic Con (booth #1217). The Uclick GoComics booth will be one of five locations throughout the convention center offering exclusive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia as part of the TMNT 25th Anniversary promotional event, and will also hold drawings Wednesday through Friday for tickets to the TMNT […]
Character designer, illustrator Stephen Silver will present a three-hour seminar on the topic of self-publishing for children’s books, art books and graphic novels. The presentation is on August 12th in Burbank, CA. See his site for details.
We have several Daily Cartoonist regulars who attended or participated in this weekend’s Maine Comics Arts Festival. Mike Peterson has posted his thoughts on the “Surviving as a Print Cartoonist” panel featuring Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuti (Retail, Gill) and Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate) with Mike Lynch moderating. Mike […]
Editorial Cartooning» Pulitzer Prize Winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman will Address Dean College Graduation tomorrow.Interviews» More Toronto Comics Art Festival interviews: Howard Chackowicz, Valerie Sury, Jason Thompson, Diana Tamblyn,
Another big name will be attending the Self-Syndication seminar hosted by Tundra guys Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg. Daryl Cagle will also be on-hand to answer questions and talk to individuals about the market. Daryl runs one of the biggest cartoon websites at cagle.com and started his own syndicate service in 2001 distributing over 50 […]
The Tundra guys (Bill Kellogg and Chad Carpenter) have opened up registration for their self-syndication seminar that is scheduled for this September. The two 2-day seminar on how to self market and leverage the internet to make a greater income with comics is set for September 26-27 and 28-29 and will feature Bill and Chad, […]
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the National Caricaturist Network) has announced details to their 2009 convention to be held in Sandusky OH this November.The confirmed speakers include Sam Viviano, Longtime MAD artist and current art director, Mark Fredrickson, Frequent MAD cover artist, Hermann Mejia MAD caricaturist and Tom Richmond a […]
» Brian Duffy made news this morning with news that he is considering suing his employer for copyright ownership of his cartoons. The Telegraph Herald has announced that they are picking up his freelance cartoons. » uClick announced that you can now get Garfield Minus Garfield iPhone/iPod app.» Editorial Cartoonist Donna Barstow has been added […]
» Via Journalista! is news that the New York Times edited political cartoon by Michel Kichna showing Hugo Chavez flipping the bird. Mike Lynch has larger, detailed images.» Phil Hands is featured in a video produced by Wisconsin State Journal.» MariNaomi, author and illustrator of Estrus Comics and Jimmy Gownley, creator of Amelia Rules! will […]
\Michael Jantze, creator of “The Norm,” will be at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on March 7th to teach a three-hour class on “the past, current and future markets for new media.” Michael take students through the process of converting traditional comics into new media shorts using his “Audio Comics” product.
The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con are proud to present the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. Ballots can be downloaded from […]
» After 20 years, The Simpson’s has a new intro. I’m glad to see the inclusion of more characters, but I still prefer the classic intro.» uClick (the tech company behind Universal Press Syndicate) is the number #1 mobile comic distributed for iPhone and iPod Touch. uClick CEO was on CNNMoney touting his iPhone funny […]
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 […]
Aaron McGruder, creator of the Boondocks comic strip and television show, has issued a statement regarding the flare up in the blogosphere that has arisen after the Palladium-Item reported that Aaron claimed President Barack Obama wasn’t black because he wasn’t a descendant of slaves during a speech at Earlham College on Martin Luther King day. […]
» Mike Cavna continues talking to editorial cartoonists and what they’ll miss about President George Bush.» Speaking of missing “W”, Daryl Cagle also writes about what it means to cartoonists not to have George Bush in the Oval Office. » Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons will be featured at Clinton County Leadership Institute?s […]