From Universal Press Syndicate comes news that GoComics will be releasing the first mobile phone comic book on August 20th. The comic entitled, “Thunder Road” will be delivered as a slideshow to the phone. “Thunder Road” is created by Sean Demory and drawn by Steven Sanders and is a “post-apocalyptic, diesel punk action adventure” – […]
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to King Features Syndicate saying the existence of King’s DailyINK online service may mean King “places little value on syndication fees.” And he wondered if the syndicate should start paying newspapers to run comics.
For those who are not familiar with Farley, here is the wikipedia entry for the feature and artist:Farley is a American comic strip written and drawn by Phil Frank, appearing daily (except Saturday) in the San Francisco Chronicle. The strip originally began in 1975 as Travels With Farley, a nationally syndicated strip, but missing the “timeliness and joy of doing local politics” and dissatified with the four-to-six week lead time required of syndication, switched to working exclusive for the Chronicle, enabling him to quickly mine local events — usually overnight — for his satire.Phil collaborates on The Elderberries with Joe Troise.
Nick Anderson’s latest 3-D animated editorial cartoon has been copied over to YouTube where it has climbed to #11 in most linked to video on YouTube and has been watched 1,273 times.
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 […]