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Webcomics Weekend slated for March 20-22

The guys behind Dumbrella, Topatoco, and Octopus Pie are starting a Webcomics Weekend event in Easthampton, (MA) scheduled for March 20-22. The event is also described as an open studio where artists can come talk shop, tour the studios where they make webcomics and ship their merchandise. A who’s who list webcomickers are listed as […]

2009 Glyph Award nominees announced

The 2009 Glyph Award nominees have been announced. The nominees for 2009 are:Story of the YearBayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artistIncognegro; Mat Johnson, writer, Warren Pleece, artistJustice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artistPilot Season: Genius, Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artistPresidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, […]

Aussie cartoonist Michael Atchison passes at 75

Australian cartoonist Michael Atchison has passed away at age 75 from a cancer he battled since 1994. He spent 40 years with the Advertiser as their cartoonist, he also taught art at Pembroke College. Earlier in his career he sold cartoons to magazines, illustrated books and produced a syndicated comic strip that ran in the […]

News Briefs for February 16, 2008

» “Where the sidewalk Ends” author, cartoonist, poet Shel Silverstein has a limited engagement at the Raven theater February 5-28th in Chicago. The show is adult only and is described as “as zany, pointed, and poignant but significantly more perverse than his beloved childhood tales and poems.”» Speedbump creator Dave Coverly is profiled again, this […]

Self-syndication seminar set for September

As mentioned before, Bill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy who has taken Chad Carpenter’s Tundra from a handful of papers to over 275 in just a couple of years will be hosting two 2-day seminars on how to self-syndicate your feature. Also invited to speak are known cartoonist/speakers who have found creative ways to monetize their […]

Etta Hulme could use some well-wishing

Saturday, I received word from editors at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Etta Hulme was “gravely ill.” Sunday the news came that she was improving and now I’m told she may be out of ICU as early as today. I don’t know the specifics of what sent her into the hospital. If you’d like to […]

Bill Garner cut from the Washington Times

I was tipped off that Bill Garner, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Times, has been let go. Another source has confirmed it, but details are sketchy. Apparently the whole editorial page and commentary employees were required to re-apply for their own jobs back in January. I’ll post details as they’re reported.UPDATE: Rob Tornoe has some […]

Howard Tayler’s journey to profitable webcomics

I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours with Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary last fall at a local anime convention in Salt Lake. He’s got a depth of knowledge of cartooning in general and webcomics specifically. He’s proof that one can make a living solely off the web if you’re willing […]

News Briefs for February 11, 2009

» The Examiner’s Nate Beeler was honored last night for having won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning.» This is unverified, but an individual has posted in the Google RACS group that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times has cut their comics pages today from three to two. The unlucky […]

Market and economic good news from NY ComicCon

New York Comic Con was last weekend and Publisher’s Weekly has a couple of articles on what the Con might mean for the market and economy. Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald report that this year’s attendance was up from last with 77,000 attendees this weekend. Brigid Alverson reported that children’s comics and graphic novels, especially […]

News Briefs for February 10, 2009

Webcomicker Paul Southworth has announced that he’s ending his long running comic Ugly Hill. Digital Strips talks to Paul about the decision and his work with Ugly Hill.Mike Rhode notes that the Examiner (D.C.) has increased Nate Beeler’s editorial cartoons to about 1/3 of the tabloid page size. Mason Mastroianni, who took over B.C. when […]

Diary of a Whimpy Kid a hot web, print product

The Houston Chronicle has a profile of Jeff Kinney, the creator of the best selling series “Diary of a Whimpy Kid.” While I knew the book was a best seller (my kids have devoured the series of books), I wasn’t aware that the book was first a web product that is still doing well in […]

Fusco Brothers irks readers with use of “squaw”

Mike LeFort of the Rapid City Journal has responded to a reader complaint over the use of the word “squaw” in J.C. Duffy’s Fusco Brothers strip last week. The word “squaw,” according to some activists is not a real native american word, but “a degrading sexual invective coined by Europeans based on an obscure Mohawk […]

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