This August edition of Elle magazine has eight pages of Olive Oyl inspired fashion. Olive Oyl being the female love interest of E. C. Segar’s Popeye. The article is described as “Contrasting necklines and cuffs add new dimensions – and unexpected chic to Olive Oyl’s lanky proportions.” I haven’t considered Olive Oyl as some fashionista […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve had to care about this stuff, but young Edison Lee has an interesting twist on back-to-school shopping.The kid has a way of connecting the dots in a pattern that is sometimes amusingly paranoiac and other times, well, okay, still amusingly paranoiac, but in a way that I can relate to.There […]
From New York Daily News: Nancy Silberkleit, the co-CEO who was accused of harassing employees back in 2011, now claims she “has been and continues to be the subject of unwelcomed sexual harassment” at Archie’s offices in Mamaroneck, Westchester County. The worst offender, Silberkleit charges, is businessman and one-time friend Sam Levitin, who was supposed […]
I missed this nugget when first posted last month, but Sally Forth cartoonist and Flash Gordon writer/artist Jim Keefe has a great piece on how to price your work and efforts in comics. A must read for anyone engaged in freelance (or any creative) work.Jeff: What you always have in your corner when negotiating a […]
Anne Hambrock is hosting a one-day Kenosha Festival this year on November 2nd. Dubbed “Mini-Fest 2013”, she’s trying to raise $2,000 to cover the costs of the festival. So far $1,325 has been raised, but according to my math, she’s short $675. She has several excellent incentives for donors ranging from original MAD magazine art […]
Matt Davies on the launch of Al Jazeera America.And he’s right, of course, in that the network is facing an almost impossible set of challenges: Getting past the Islamophobia of the past several decades, and getting past the expectations that a “good” news network is one that reinforces your prejudices, whichever end of the spectrum […]
From Universal Uclick President John Glynn comes examples of what NOT to do if seeking a syndication contract: But if I’m going to be honest with you (something I almost always insist upon), most of the submissions we get are not very good. Is that mean-spirited? I hope not. We had one dude who sent […]
I haven’t seen Disney’s Planes movie, but as a consumer of family animation movies, it’s not hard to grasp what Margot Magowan describes as blatantly sexist movie – slow planes being called “ladies”; female plane characters being objectified, the number of female characters a fraction of the males, etc.When I saw the preview, I thought […]
Rob Harrell has released his first graphic novel Monster on the Hill (Book 1). Rob is the creator of the comic Big Top and writes and draws the comic Adam@Home.Description from Amazon: In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster – much to the townsfolk’s delight! Each town’s […]
Wacom has announced three new products – two of them tablets and the third a iPad stylus. As far as the tablets, there is the Cintiq Companion (starting at $1,999) – a 13 inch fully functional Cintiq tablet running Windows 8, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, etc. The second tablet is the Cintiq Companion hybrid (starting […]
About five years ago, I was editing a twice-weekly newspaper in Farmington, Maine, and the publisher left, which meant I now was also editing a biweekly (other kind of biweekly) newspaper in Rangeley, which meant I was also writing three or four articles for each issue. There was a marina-and-boat-shop-and-snowmobile-and-ATV-shop expanding, and I needed to go […]
In a blog post by Pajama Diaries creator Terri Libenson, she writes that she switched to a Cintiq earlier this year and has been refining her ink line on the Cintiq. Using the above panels – can you tell which one she drew with the Micron pen and which one with the Cintiq? Honestly, I […]
Fresh off of a lay-off from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, editorial cartoonist Joe Heller is moving forward with his self-syndication. According to a post on his Facebook wall, he picked up a newspaper group representing 26 newspapers for his self-syndication cartoons.Nicely done, Joe.
From The Guardian: “Of all the arts, cartoons stand on the frontline against dictators,” says Ali Ferzat. Speaking from Kuwait, where he lives in exile, the 62-year-old Syrian is one of the Middle East’s most important living artists. Since the late 1960s, his satirical drawings and caricatures of political figures have been widely published at […]
News Corp Australia used to allow their local editors to select their own comics. That changed recently when News Corp consolidated all comic pages to a single national page. According to The Feed, many Aussie comic strips were lost in favor of cheaper U.S. comics (citing Fred Bassett, The Phantom and Garfield as examples) took […]