Michael Cavna talks with Tom Wilson Jr. about his father who recently passed away and of course Ziggy.“When I was young, we would go to Bob’s Big Boy restaurants on Saturdays for breakfast,” the younger Wilson tells Comic Riffs of their Cleveland-area outings. “Dad would turn over their placemats and draw Ziggy about ready to […]
Bloomberg is reporting that Ruport Murdock’s much heralded The Daily is struggling to get enough subscribers to break even. The Daily’s daily usage is about 120,000 – much less than the 500,000 it needs to break even. News Corp.’s digital publication isn’t compelling enough to change people’s reading habits and its marketing push, including an […]
Yesterday Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet. The device is being hailed as the first serious tablet to compete against Apple’s iPad. It sells at $199 and has a whole bunch of features that you can see on their site. Here’s Bloomberg’s report about the Kindle Fire. In somewhat related news, at least two […]
Okay, he’s no Chris Christie. He’s no Lou Christie. He isn’t even Julie Christie.But he is the savior I’ve been hoping would return and enter the presidential race: Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, and now he’s back in Prickly City and ready to redeem the nation, I’m sure much as you would […]
Back in 2008, Retail creator Norm Feuti began posting a webcomic called Gill – a strip developed for syndication that didn’t get any takers. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that found the strip well written and in a polished state. It was sad to see a strip that had a likable and […]
Turkish cartoonist Bahadir Baruter will be put on trial for “insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population.” One of his cartoons depicted a group of men in a mosque praying but Bahadir wrote the words “There is no Allah, religion is a lie” in the decorations of the wall. A few […]
Mark Stokes has posted what he is calling a rare photo of a collection of cartoonist celebrating Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker’s 40th birthday. Photo was taken September 3, 1963 and includes: Jack Tippit, Bill Yates, Frank Roberge, Tony DiPreta, John Cullen Murphy, Gill Fox, Dik Browne; Bud Jones, Frank Johnson, Orlando Busino, Jerry Dumas, […]
Rhymes with Orange is on the short list of comics that would be here every day if I didn’t handicap my choices. This one breaks through because I have an uncanny ability to watch brilliant creative ideas drift off into the ether and to see entire days on which I have time to be productive […]
Last July WT Duck (or What The Duck for us fans before the title was changed for syndication) creator Aaron Johnson ended his syndication run after an even five years. Aaron cited wanting to have more time to devote to other projects. I asked him a few questions about his plans, his experience taking a […]
The New York Times has partnered with Xtranormal provide animated satirical cartoons for their website. Xtranormal uses a technology that provides a cast of characters that can voice and act scripts uploaded by the public to produce a video that can be shared virally. The same technology was used in Renton, Washington police officer to […]
Derf Backderf on the direct correlation between television and later life. (As always, click on the cartoon for a larger version)Or perhaps more specifically, on the correlation between vacuous-but-well-promoted scientific studies and screaming headlines. If the researchers in this study had used a less popular fast-paced cartoon, their study would have languished in the lower […]
Glen Weldon on NPR talks about Kate Beaton’s new Hark! A Vagrant collection due out tomorrow.Beaton is the master of comic strip pacing; several of Hark! A Vagrant!’s funniest strips feature panels with no dialogue at all, just a character (Aquaman, say, or an unamused King, or Poe) regarding the reader with a hilarious slow-burn […]
Hat tip to Hector Cortez
There’s A LOT of watch me draw videos out on the intertubes. One of my favorite artists is Florian Satzinger has posted a morning warm-up sketch. Work In Progress 7 (2) from Florian Satzinger on Vimeo.
Norm Feuti, creator of the comic Retail and the webcomic Gil has announced that his Gil comic has been picked up by King Features Syndicate for a launch in January 2012. You may remember Gil was launched as a webcomic back in 2008 about a little boy from a broken family. It was a bit […]