Michael Jantze is a professor at Savanna College of Art and Design, creator of The Norm, and founder of Jantze Studios where they create animated shorts. He talked about the history of cartooning (business/client/distribution) and how that is changing and why. Dave Kellett creator of Sheldon, and Drive talked about the webcomic model and John […]
Mark Simon is a cartoonist, producer, director, writer, lecturer and he talked about how to get free advertising through publicity. It was a HUGE amount of information in a little over an hour’s time. He outlined 16 ways to get increase your visibility. I’ll outline them here.1. Pitch a story, not a product to the […]
My favorite Scandanavian goth chick, Nemi, explains vegetarianism but mostly explains explanation.Whether Nemi’s creator, Lise Myhre, was ever really anything much like Nemi has long since become a moot point. The strip is now 15 years old and Myhre is now 36, and the married mother of a five-year-old.And blonde.Whatever may have been the case […]
]Andrews McMeel Publishig, the parent company of Universal Uclick, will launch a new line of comic graphic novels aimed at middle school grades late this summer . The paperback series will include titles from several comics strips such as: Lincoln Peirce’s comic Big Nate, Bill Amend’s FoxTrot and Mark Tatulli’s Lio. The first one (Big […]
I’m in Las Vegas attending this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend. Festivities kick off today and run through Sunday with the big awards dinner on Saturday night. For up-to-the second play by play of the awards dinner and winners – follow me on Twitter (@dailycartoonist). I intend to post photos and session notes […]
CBS This Morning sent out a reporter to interview Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the current story-line discussing a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. The story delves into that, but also steps back and is a nice story about Tom’s work in general.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune will soon cease to be a daily newspaper. The paper announced yesterday that it was moving to a three-times weekly schedule with greater emphasis on delivering the news at greater frequency through it’s website. From their website, Nola.com: With a reduced printing schedule starting in the fall, Amoss said, plans call […]
For a week or two, I’ve been watching “Big Top” at GoComics, seeing that it was coming to an end and thinking I should provide a heads-up when it restarted. “Big Top” reruns have re-started. Rob Harrell did Big Top for five years and I was poking around to see if I could find out why he […]
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will be hosting a political cartoon festival in conjunction with their annual convention in September. The Festival is entitled “#!&% CARTOONS!! A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon” and runs Sept. 14th & 15th at George Washington University. Special guests of the festival include François Mouly, Bob Staake and Steve Brodner.From […]
I find myself continually frustrated with the political process, in large part because the people who seem to question it also seem unwilling, or unable, to access it.The great success of the Civil Rights Movement and, to a lesser extent, the Anti-War Movement, was the grassroots actions that did not simply confront the system but […]
Yesterday, I received a review copy of Chris Sparks’ “Team Cul de Sac”. I’ll quote what I tweeted a half hour later, “It stopped everything until I thumbed through every page. Fantastic book!” The concept of having so many cartoonists from the biggest names in comics to the not so big all drawing on the […]
DC Comics announced it is going to out one of it’s ‘iconic’ characters as being gay next month and Marvel says that it’s character Northstar (already out of the closet since 1992) will marry his boyfriend.From ABCNews: DC Comics, whose portfolio includes such iconic characters as Batman and Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman, plans next […]
Matt Bors, with a correction to a current news story.I stopped off yesterday at Akwesasne, the Mohawk community that straddles the border they don’t admit exists, as part of my book-promotion tour. One of the women at the cultural center had provided me with some guidance for a character, a Mohawk trapper, and I wanted […]
More and more comic collections are popping up in the Apple iBook Store. King Features Syndicate posts news that Jim Toomey’s Sherman’s Lagoon has been released as an ebook. Twelve of them actually. Books are $.99 and are between 17-20 pages each (which methinks is a small sample – even for $1).As KFS editor Brendan […]
Gerry Giovinco looks at the uptick in value of comic related art as seen in recent auctions and speculates as to why.Forbes recently ran an article on their site that lists good reasons for investing in comic art but neglects the obvious: Supply and Demand. Though it may seem that there are tons of original […]