Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog has been picked up by several online comic pages according to a post on Jonathan’s blog. Bleeker started out on Comics Sherpa and moved up to goComics in May of last year. It has also been optioned for TV Radical Sheep Productions in Canada.Here’s a list of online newspaper […]
Corey Pandolph tells me that his comic Barkeater Lake is going back to a daily schedule on his web site.He writes: I figured out that there are 8 hours in my day that have been wasted on sleep. By adding these hours to my work schedule, I’m now able to write and draw four different […]
Brad Guigar, one of the authors of How to Make Webcomics, is producing his third collection of his webcomic Evil Inc.. The book is entitled “Evil Inc Annual Report vol. 3” and ships late May.Describing his book, he writes: This is the third installment of the series of graphic novels based on the daily comic […]
Webcomic powerhouse Penny Arcade has announced that they have partnered with Hothead Games to create a new website called “Greenhouse” that will focus on selling downloadable independent games for PC, Mac, and Linux. The first game to be released will be “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One”, a role playing game featuring Penny […]
Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga are celebrating their second year with their webcomic Nemu*Nemu with the release of their second volume collection of their feature. Nemu*Nemu is Manga style comic with two stuffed toy puppies and two young girls. “A webcomic is much different from syndication because it goes everywhere and anywhere the Internet goes, […]
For those who may have dropped out of the conversation regarding the web comics financial model (and what print/syndicated cartoonists can be learn from it), Scott has set up a call-in conference call for Friday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Here’s the details taken from the comment thread: Title: Cartoonist Meeting Episode Notes: re: the Daily […]
Editorial cartoonist and United Media’s Acquisition and Development Editor Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, creator of online and print comic Diesel Sweeties, along with web cartoonist Dean Haspiel, Raina Telgemeier, Collen Venable were at the first Graphic Novel Symposium held on March 15th to discuss the impact and viability of webcomics in the cartooning industry.The item […]
Bitstrips launched earlier this month as the latest new social web social 2.0 social web application to make webcomics easy. Did I mention that it was social? I was curious about the site both from a technical perspective and how it would treat comics. It was a big hit at this year’s South by South […]
Many of you know that TDC regular Dawn Douglass has spent years and a small fortune on creating a viable business model for cartoonists to make money on the web. She’s asking for feedback to a recent blog post about how cartoonists feel about her latest plan. For some months now, I’ve been trying to […]
» Editorial cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom as started a web comic. » Luann – the musical – hits the stage again at Palomar College. Luann creator Greg Evans wrote the play as well as the music. It was first produced at the college in the fall of 2006.» Two more editorial cartoons by Bill Watterson have […]
Corey Pandolph writes in to tell us that he’s launched a new comic strip entitled TOBY, Robot Satan on gocomics.com. The new feature, about a insane robot and his bartender friend Morris Gumboot, will run five days a week. Corey also mentions the possibility of it running in print in New York or Boston.Corey is […]
John Cole sent me a link an online reprint of King Feature’s 1949 catalogue of features. The catalogue contains the 53 cartoonist who were being syndicated right after WWII. Very interesting to see the dominate cartooning styles of that era.A 1952 original ‘Peanuts’ Comic recently was auctioned for $31,640Over in Kentucky, a lawmaker has introduced […]
USA WEEKEND has announced that for the first time ever, they will run a weekly online comic on their web site. Previously, they’ve published panel cartoons that have run in their paper. Casey Shaw, USA WEEKEND’s creative Manager, does the Thurbear comic that will be updated on their site every Thursday. “While I’ve contributed more […]
The Washington Post has reprinted a PC World article listing five web comics “that will make you ditch your newspaper.“ Let’s face it: Most newspaper comic strips are pretty dull, rehashing, over the past few decades, the same formulas (and often the same characters). That’s why comics connoisseurs have been turning to the Internet, where […]
Mike Witmer’s feature Pinkerton has been picked up on GoComics and will begin its daily run on November 5th. Mike also does the feature 44th Union Avenue that also appears on GoComics. You can see Pinkerton over on his web site, which will also continue to post the feature.