Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is auctioning off an original drawing of the Pearls characters on eBay with the proceeds to be donated to the Red Cross. Three days into the auction, the current bid is $1,300 with four days left.From his blog: Speaking of strips, I’m often asked if I sell my strips. […]
Randy Glasbergen, one of the most prolific cartoonists in the industry has launched a new blog on his website (which was also reworked).Mike Rhode reports that The Onion’s editorial cartoonist “Kelly” returned in the February 11th issue, with a Star Trek / NASA parody. Kelly is the pen name for Ward Sutton.Justin Thompson, co-creator of […]
The B.C. team has decided to keep “Wolf” around making the dog the first new character in Johnny Hart’s strip since 1964 when Grog was introduced.
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 […]
Dan Piraro has launched an iPhone app for his comic Bizarro. The app takes advantage of the subscription capabilities of the app store to charge $1.99 a year. With the Bizarro app, a NEW COMIC is added EVERY DAY! (The same comic that appears in newspapers.) PLUS, at any given time there is a YEAR’S […]
Mistake or not, the first run of issue 602 of Captain American just became more valuable than otherwise would be after Tea bagger references were discovered and corrected for future editions. Tea Party Coalition members demand apology from Marvel. In issue No. 602 of Captain America, “Two Americas, Part One,” Captain America and his partner […]
This is part of a longer Between Friends arc in which Maeve is being set up with a much younger guy. It stands alone rather well, however. I’m hoping the arc continues for a while longer. (Check the sidebar for a Between Friends collection)
Those in the New York area might be interested in this exhibit of original Charles Addams work: Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings […]
Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur is officially 18 years old (as of yesterday). Here is the debut strip:A couple of notes about Non Sequitur. It’s one of those strips that makes me wish I didn’t have to wait until the creator dies or retires before a complete volume can be printed.And My first syndicates strip submission […]
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Politico, has won this year’s Herblock Prize for 2010. Matt was a finalist in last year’s Pulitzer Prize. According to a story on Politico, his editor congratulated Matt for being “at the top of his game and enjoying it more than ever at a moment when his work matters more […]
Keeping an eye on the upcoming release of the iPad and its impact on newspapers, we get this rumored debate within the New York Times. On one side, a Times source explains, you have print circulation, which thinks it should control the iPad since it’s just another way to distribute the paper. They’d like to […]
Paul Jon was interviewed by the Omaha World-Herald. Makes me wonder if some of that rigid military life helped create this routine. Q. Do you work ahead? A. Right now, I’m about five months ahead in the dailies and the Sundays and even more ahead with strips that I’ve got sketched out. The good news […]
Good news from the people at GoComics. We at GoComics want to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Since it would be impractical to send each and every one of our users a big box of gamble chocolate or a even a little candy heart stamped “U R COOL”, we’re offering all users 14 days […]
Kazu Kibuishi, the creator and editor of Flight series, has announced that volume eight will be the last volume of the anthologies. The next couple of years will also mark the end of the Flight series. We will be wrapping it all up with Flight Volume Eight. We had a pretty good run, but it […]
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 […]