Dan Piraro hits on one of the great elements of not-getting-it in today’s Bizarro.Does anybody still use this word as a noun? I remember having a discussion about it in the newsroom about 20 years ago, but having a woman publisher and a woman city editor, it was a short discussion. Women students at Plattsburgh […]
Things could be worse, Dagwood.At least Blondie isn’t playing the “Guess which movie we’re watching tonight?” game with you. That’s the one where she says she’s going to let you pick the movie and then vetoes each of your suggestions until you get to the one she wanted to watch in the first place.Not sure […]
The Cartoonist Studio has announced they are launching a digital publishing company called Crazy Goat Publishing. The new company will focus on cartoons, apps and graphic novels to be distributed through its website and appropriate app markets (Droid, iTunes app store, etc.). They’ve already converted some of their members print books into ebook format including […]
The Joe Palooka comic strip is back, but not in newspapers. According to CBS News boxing announcer Joe Antonacci has purchased the rights to the character and is reworking the boxing champion character into a “mixed martial arts fighter” to be released as comic books. You can see the samples of the comic book online.The […]
When I interviewed Jan Eliot back in 2003 (it says “1993” there, but don’t be fooled), she described Luci’s only-slightly-older brother Max thusly: “”Max is almost like a pet … He’s a little sprite, meant to be always clinging to Joan’s leg, that little piece of chaos which is the reality of a mom’s life. He’s […]
John Read enjoyed a 21 year career in the entertainment industry (movies, commercials) and teaching cartooning to kids age 7-12. Inspired by Jud Hurd’s Cartoonists PROfiles, he started Stay Tooned! magazine. John shared the four things NOT to do with your cartooning career and the 12 you should.Notes: Stay Tooned! is an old school magazine. […]
Mark Parisi is the creator of the comic panel Off The Mark and his wife, Lynn Reznick Parisi, is the business manager for the strip. Off the Mark has been sold both in and out of syndication (currently syndicated through Universal Uclick). He’s been doing paid cartooning professionally since 1987 when his feature was picked […]
The first speakers in the Success in Comics Seminar were also the hosts: Chad Carpenter, creator of Tundra and Bill Kellogg who has sold the strip to over 500 newspapers. Chad first talked about getting into cartooning and how he made the strip a success as regional comic in Alaska and then Bill talked about […]
The conservative group One Million Moms has demanded in a letter that Toys ‘R’ Us remove all Just Married – Archie comic books from their stores. In the issue the character Kevin Keller (the comic’s first gay character) gets married to his partner.The letter posted on Media Bistro:As a mother and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, […]
Signe Wilkinson comments on the latest school shootings, in a world where “school shootings” can be classified as “latest.”I like her approach, which avoids the self-important hyperventilation that generally follows these events, as Ruben Bolling pointed out a dozen years ago in the wake of Columbine:By contrast, Wilkinson has been consistent and pragmatic in her […]
Girls with Slingshots creator Danielle Corsetto represented the webcomics model at the Success in Comics seminar. She started her strip in 2004 when few were living off their webcomics. Her original intent was to follow her childhood dream of creating a comic strip for syndication, but as she developed and posted her strip online she […]
As Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur enters its 21st year of non-feigned outrage, he brings to a head something that has been roiling in the back of my skull for a couple of weeks now.People do, indeed, flood to the purveyors of feigned outrage, which, I would note, is not a partisan commodity. There is feigned […]
Rob Tornoe was the first speaker on Sunday. He’s a freelance cartoonist, columnist, editor and publisher of the Delaware magazine Punchline. He self-syndicates his work in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.Notes from his talk: Doing local cartoons allows him to charge more than bundled material from syndicates Sports cartoons sell well as first time runs […]
Brian Crane was the last speaker on Saturday. He’s the creator of the comic Pickles which is now in 800 newspapers. His comic launched with only 24 newspapers and was told by his syndicate that he might even get up to 50. I’ve met Brian before this seminar and despite the accomplishment of being in […]
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the much loved Berenstain Bears books with her husband Stan, has passed away at the age of 88. According to NPR, she suffered a stroke while in her studio last Thursday and passed away on Friday. The first Berenstain Bear book was published in 1962 and more than 300 titles have […]