Welcome to the Comic of The Future, brought to you by Rhymes With Orange, King Features, and Mental Canvas.From Rhymes With Orange:The King Features’ syndicated cartoon Rhymes With Orange has teamed up with Mental Canvas to bring you a cartoon that you can virtually jump into and explore. What’s the cartoon about? No spoiler alert! […]
Watch as Wisconsin State Journal political cartoonist Phil Hands walks viewers through his creative process as he draws this year’s Mother’s Day cartoon. WiscNews presents Phil digitally drawing this year’s Mother’s Day cartoons.
above: Régis LoiselAn exhibit of original European comic art in New York City gives Forbes a reason to look at the collectors market for original comic art.Philippe Labaune, founder of Art9, has a few ideas explaining why American collectors are getting into original comics art right now. “The American collector is moving steadily towards the […]
In [E&P’s] featured “E&P Reports” interview this week, Dennis Draughon talks to E&P contributing writer Rob Tornoe about what it means to be a political cartoonist … for Capitol Broadcasting/WRAL. Draughon, incidentally, is the 2019 EPPY Award winner for Best Editorial/Political Cartoon with under 1 million unique monthly visitors.Dennis Draughon discusses being downsized out of […]
The Improbable RemainsOn his How To book tour Randall Munroe goes north to Alaska. The Juneau Empire reports on Randall’s lecture there. The Spurns that Patient Merit of th’ Unworthy TakesAt the time of this writing, the two most influential politicians in the United States are a real estate developer who became president and a bartender […]
Chris Waldron became Andrews McMeel Universal‘s new Chief Digital Officer. Among AMU’s operations is comics newspaper syndication and book publishing. Atlanta-based digital executive Chris Waldron joins Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) as Chief Digital Officer beginning May 22, announced Chief Executive Officer Andy Sareyan. Waldron joins AMU after almost 20 years at Cartoon Network, where he worked […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
Tom May, associate editor at Creative Bloq, reviews Apple’s newly announced Pro tablet iPad Pro along with the new stylus Apple Pencil.Having dropped the ball so much in the film-making arena (bad-mouthing Final Cut Pro seems to have become a professional sport within the movie industry), we weren’t sure could ever get back into the […]
A couple of weeks ago a new company released software called Astropad that turns your iPad into a graphic tablet – meaning it mirrors what’s on your desktop screen. You can draw in Photoshop on your iPad with a variety of stylus.Here’s their promotional video:Here’s a review:Software costs $50. Anyone tried it yet?
I’ve been a fan of ProCreate for a couple of years now. By far the best drawing app on iOS. And just to put your mind at ease, I don’t get any kickbacks for recommending the app. I’m just a fan. Remember that viral video of someone drawing Morgan Freeman that created debate whether it […]
My favorite iPad drawing app just released a major upgrade. Savage Interaction’s ProCreate 2.1 came out last week with some really cool enhancements with color and layers. The ability to drop a color will speed things up for me quite a bit. Check out their what’s new page for full details.
Late last year, Stephan Pastis and Scott Adams did a video bit pimping Wacom?s Cintiq Companion. Now Garfield creator Jim Davis is doing the same for the Wacom Cintiq. That Jim is using a a Cintiq doesn’t surprise me. When he was at the Reuben Awards in Las Vegas two years ago, he mentioned that […]
For you digital inkers out there, I’ve come across a post by Kyle T. Webster who has created several Photoshop brush plugins and is releasing a bundled version of all his brushes in one “megapack”. Cost is only $14 (regularly $19). I’m not sure what the going rate is for digital brush, but it seems […]
For those of you who follow this blog, you know I’ve promoted Smith Micro’s products before (Manga Studio, Anime Studio, etc.). I like their software. Much, much easier to learn and easier to make your static comics come alive. This week Smith Micro released Anime Studio® Pro 10 and Anime Studio Debut® 10. It’s a […]