Fleen Guy’s Gary Tyrrell has news that several cartoonists are banding together to hold an auction of original art to raise money for Gulf of Mexico clean up and restoration efforts. Gary interviews Carly Monardo who is one of the main organizers. Fleen: Let’s start from the beginning – give us the 30 second version […]
WOWIO, Inc., a website that allows users to share and use digital media content, such as eComics and eBooks announced they have acquired the webcomics community DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. Following last week’s acquisition of social networking site WEvolt, the acquisition of DrunkDuck will expand WOWIO’s existing library of content available for viewing, as well […]
Earlier this month, Jonathan Rosenberg made news by announcing that he was considering bringing his webcomic Goats to and end and focus on other projects. The Daily Cross Hatch interviews Jonathan about his plans for Goats and future plans in general. You’ve seen a lot of strips come and go, since then. You’ve seen what […]
A little afternoon levity. Not a comic in the traditional sense, but this sadanduseless.com Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates comic will soon go viral in some crowds if it hasn’t already. Read all of them for a chuckle.
The Hartford Courant caught up with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Rick Stromoski, creator of Soup to Nutz and recorded their feelings about the digital future as presented by Apple’s iPad. Griffith says the Web has been a good platform for his work, and he’s encouraged by what he’s seen of the […]
Last January Webcomics.com went behind a paywall to much the surprise to many of us. Fleen.com’s Gary Tyrell looks back to see how the site has changed. That fourth graf is where I got it especially wrong ? I was reading WDC as an informational resource and nothing more; what?s become clear is that Brad?s […]
Jon Rosenberg, considered one of the more successful webcomics, appears to be creatively frustrated with the webcomic model for his Goats feature. His original plan was to end the feature in 2012, but the economy has made him think about wrapping the feature up earlier and moving on to a new comic with “more economic […]
Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove and one of the Six Chix, has launched a tri-weekly webcomic entitled, “Velia, Dear.” The comic launched today and is about a young woman named Velia who leaves the inner city to take care of her aging Italian mother.Regarding the new strip (and why she’s launching a web comic) […]
Time Magazine has listed Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik as one of their top 100 most influential people. The comic is published three times a week and boasts 3.5 million readers. Lev Grossman writes for Time: For a lot of people, that would have been enough. But in 2003, Krahulik and Holkins, […]
The Hugo Awards have been announced for the Best Graphic Story. The Hugo is an award for writers, artists working in the fantasy and sci-fi field. Five stories have been announced including Howard Tayler’s’ “The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse” (of webcomic Shlock Mercenary and a friend of The Daily Cartoonist).The nominees are: Batman: Whatever Happened […]
I’ve mentioned before Eddie Pittman’s excellent web graphic novel Red’s Planet. This week Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden announced that Eddie has agreed to publish through their Wishtales publishing studio.From the press release: Pittman recently began publishing his all-ages science fiction graphic novel “Red’s Planet” online. Dell’Aringa and Ogden were immediately taken by his wonderful […]
David Reddick’s webcomic Legend of Bill has been published in a 48-page comic book and is available now from Th3rd World Publishing in both an Artist Edition and Regular Edition. The comic is also now a regular feature in Renaissance Magazine (bi-monthly) and Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine (monthly) in comics shops, gaming shops […]
Brock Heasley of Super Fogeys fame won February’s Zuda competition for a feature he co-created entitled Monsterplex. The other two co-creators are David Schlotterback and Michael DeVito.Brock talks about what it means to win on the Tall Tale Features blog: This month has been a whirlwind of hard work and emotions for me and my […]
The Dallas Art News will be starting a webcomic section in April after recent post featuring webcomic art broke web traffic records for the site. Be warned, for now, they are “considering compensation.” Here are some of the specifics for the Guest Webcomic Artist Program: Each guest webcomic artist will product 4 to 5 web […]
Seven Stories Press has begun running a webcomic version of Stephanie McMillan’s graphic novel “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial” (co-created with Derrick Jensen). The comic updates Tuesdays and Thursdays in full color. A French version of the printed book is also available.As an aside, Stephanie was […]