The cartoon touches on the Republican redistricting in Texas and last weeks related ruling from the Supreme Court.From his blog:Welcome to the Houston Chronicle’s first attempt at online animation…. As we get better, and learn the process, we hope to increase the frequency.The cartoon concept, art and direction was Nick’s, but the animation looks to be a team effort by a number of Chron employees.
Today he’s announced that potential customers can browse his cartoon collection and purchase them on the spot. Check out his blog for details and visit his web site/online store.
Zits has joined several other comic features to be added as premium content for mobile phone users.� Airborne Entertainment announced that it has signed a deal with King Features to allow Zits to be used on mobile phones.
KAL did a demonstration of the puppet at the AAEC convention in Denver and was officially unveiled at a press conference Monday (and will again on the 25th at the Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum where KAL’s exhibit “Mightier Than in Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL”Cartoonist’s Digital Bush Puppet to Debut:There’s life after The Sun of Baltimore for editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher — and part of that life involves George W…. 3 exhibit entitled “Mightier Than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL.”The puppet will converse and answer questions in “real time” at the June 12 and June 25 events, said KAL, adding that digital Dubya “can be animated daily in reaction to current news.”KAL discussed and showed footage of the Bush puppet at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in Denver, and also talked about his creation with E&P.
Now Photoshop lets us appleC-appleV elements and move them around, making complicated cartoons like this one do-able under tight deadlines.That said, I always feel an irrational twinge of guilt when I cut-and-paste within a cartoon, as if readers have paid me by the line and insist on their money’s worth. For reasons I can’t explain, I usually go back in and tweak the characters and backgrounds here and there to give the eagle-eyed wannabes something to examine and form conspiracy theories about.
Michael Fry, “Over the Hedge” co-creator, along with film writer and producer Jim Cox have created an internet start-up called RingTales which focus on making animation shorts for mobile devises. The animations will be based on current comic strips.
With the launch of “Garfield 2” later this summer, The Game Factory will be releasing the video game, based on the movie, for the PS2, Nintendo DC and the PC.
Information Week has a story about a new California startup company that is offering a free comic strip service that includes “Girls & Sports” (by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein) and “The Meaning of Lila” (by John Forgetta)…. Peanuts is distributed through Namco; Dilbert can be had through Verizon; Garfield is distributed through Gocomics; and GoGags is also a newly launched product that allows any cartoonist to get into the phonesWill mobile phones be the next comics page?
Full Tilt Features has announced goGags a service that allows cartoonists to put their cartoons on mobile phones – a growing market. Any cartoonist can join. There is a registration fee of $50/year (only $25 until end of March), but the cartoonist keeps 50% of revenue. If you want a piece of the pie, this […]
Nick Anderson, the newly acquired Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist, can now say he’s a cartoonist AND a blogger with the recent launch of his blog on the Chronicle web site. Nick’s blog seems only to post his cartoon and allow readers to make comments. A quick perusal of the comments didn’t reveal that he is […]
Scott Bateman, former King Features political cartoonist, writes in to announce that he’s on say that he’s on day 190 (okay, technically, yesterday was 190 – today is 191) of his project to produce an animated cartoon every day for a year. His latest cartoon features a score board of sorts counting the number of […]
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. It’s unknown whether this will be a regular thing. Perhaps Walt will be taking Mark Fiore on as the king of animated editorial cartoons?
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts website has a new feature aimed at kids. “Fun with Mutts” debuted last week.Muttscomics.com is proud to annouce the launching of our brand new Kid’s Section, called “Fun With Mutts”! The section includes games, puzzles, coloring pages and stickers, and a bunch of other fun stuff for kids of all ages!
Another cartoonist has joined the blogosphere. Bob Englehart of The Hartford Courant has been posting his editorial cartoons since January.
Ted Rall appeared on Hannity and Colmes on Friday night and according to his blog the show did not go as planned. He agreed to go TV on the condition that they not talk about his controversial cartoons. They did. Fox doesn’t provide transcripts of their shows, but below is purportedly the exchange between Hannity […]