» Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate is finally hitting the book shelves. The book is entitled “I Smell a Pop Quiz!: a Big Nate book,” and can be purchased through Lulu press.» Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok jokes that he’s alive because of cartooning.» The New York Times writes about the popular webcomic xkcd […]
David Reddick, who draws The Trek Life, Gene’s Journal and Rod & Berry is now launching another online webcomic entitled Legend of Bill. Legend is about Bill who leaves his 9-5 job as a file intern in search of adventure with his sidekick, Frank (a blue dragon).The feature will be updated twice a week on […]
» The Washington Post has posted a time-lapse video of editorial cartoonist Tom Toles drawing this cartoon. You can see the May 15th being drawn out.» Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller was featured on Maine news network about his passion for cartooning and living in Maine.» Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, was interviewed by the […]
For those webcomickers or cartoonists looking for an easy way to post your comics daily to your website, the ComicsPress theme for WordPress has been upgraded to version 2.5. The new release offers five different page layouts to accommodate several different types of comics and a new Comicpress Manager has been released to help configure […]
A new comic community has launched today called Tall Tell Features. The new website is the home for a group of well known syndicated and webcomic creators including: Brian Anderson (Dog Eat Doug), Dave Reddick (Legend of Bill and The Trek Life), Mike Witmer (Pinkerton), Scott Metzger (Stewart), Brock Heasley (The SuperFogeys), and Lucas Turnbloom […]
PVP online webcomic creator Scott Kurtz reports that “How To Make Webcomics” that he co-authored with Brad Guiger, (Evil Inc), Kris Straub (Starslip Crisis), and Dave Kellett (Sheldon) has sold out at the distributor level meaning the only books left are basically the ones sitting on book store shelves. The performance of this book has […]
Indie comics publisher Top Shelf Productions will launch a new webcomics site this Friday. The site’s initial offerings will include Chris Eliopoulos (The Bravest Nino), Jessica McLeod and Edward J Grug III, Bernie McGovern, David Chelsea, muralist Michael DeForge, Belgian illustrator Stedho, Slovenian creator Domen Finzar, Sean T. Collins, and Kagan McLeod.Leigh Walton, Top Shelf […]
Moonbase Press has announced that it will be releasing the thirteenth collection of cartoonist Bill Holbrook’s webcomic “Kevin & Kell” on June 26, 2008. The book, which features the strips from 2006, follows the Dewclaws’ extended family through a variety of adventures and changes in their lives. First, Kevin runs for school board against an […]
Fleen has posted the first an interview with webcomic creator and author Dave Kellett on the importance and relevance of print syndication in today’s comic marketplace compared to going it alone in webcomics. Dave shares his experience as a professional webcomicker and as one having a syndicate contract to run his feature Sheldon on Comics.com. […]
Mike Witmer’s webcomic Pinkerton that runs on gocomics.com has been picked up by The Clarion, the University Of Denver’s campus newspaper.
Yesterday Scott Kurtz’s PVP, one of the first successful webcomics, has turned 10 years old. Regarding the anniversary Scott wrote on his blog: I never expected PvP to take me here. This wasn’t planned. It was just a temporary gig. It wasn’t supposed to be the idea that took me anywhere. When I posted that […]
With their online success, Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza are branching out their two webcomic features into television and movie deals. Their feature, Least I Could Do about a “sex-obsessed twenty-something male character who loves science fiction and fantasy,” is being developed for a TV pilot for Canada’s Teletoon network. Least I Could Do was […]
Webcomics creators Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade) and Scott Kurtz (Player Vs. Player) have both begun to stream live videos of them creating their cartoons according to NewTeeVee.com. Mike reports that his first video has been viewed 70,000 times and each “livecast” has about 1,000 visitors. Scott ays that his numbers are about half that for […]
» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated.» The “Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” exhibit currently running at the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has been extended until May 18th.» Mike Witmer, who does the Pinkerton webcomic on gocomics.com has signed a publishing contract with […]
9 Chickweed Lane cartoonist Brooke McEldowney will be releasing a new book this month entitled “Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The book, based on his webcomic Pibgorn and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream is 176 pages and the forward was written by Alan Dean Foster. During its original appearance online the cause of […]