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 […]
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 […]