Great news for Scary Gary creator Mark Buford. His strip was optioned by Jack Black’s production company, Electric Dynamite, and William Morris Entertainment to create a television series based on the strip. As many of you know getting optioned is the first step. A draft pilot episode will be written and then the episode will […]
Another big thanks to everyone that donated yesterday. Typically each ensuing day of the drive the donations drop, but yesterday the drop wasn’t as big as I expected. I’ve also updated the “check” to reflect yesterday’s giving. The equivalent compensation is now $2.45/hr (I over-reported yesterday’s as $1.45 but it should have been $1.33).Here are […]
One of the frustrations of this blog is when I come across a comic that cracks me up, except …Except that they stepped on the punchline.Except that the setup is flawed and you have to assume what the cartoonist meant.Except that, while it’s funny, it relies on something that, while a lot of people believe […]
Zack Smith over at Newsarama interviews webcomic maker Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary about his strip and production of his webcomic. Howard is one of the web guys I greatly admire and whose counsel I trust. He’s got a good business sense about what he does.A sample:Nrama: You have iPad and iPod apps for […]
OB Rag (Ocean Beach, CA) interviews La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz. A couple of things I didn’t know about Lalo: He has a weekly radio program in L.A. and is a faculty member at Otis College of Art & Design.Al Carlos interviews Lalo about his beginnings and how his cartooning focus has changed over the […]
The Farley Foundation is a Canadian charity that helps raise money for Veterinarians to provide services for animals of lower income individuals. Lynn Johnston’s Farley character has been the mascot since 2001. Here’s a video of Lynn explaining her involvement and the Farley plush toy.I want one of those plush Farleys! If you do too, […]
GoComics.com announces that starting tomorrow the Pibgorn “Mozart and the Demon Lover” story-line will kick off but will include Brooke McEldowney’s running commentary. Think of it as the director’s notes on a DVD extra.
Last week’s firebombing of its offices hasn’t stopped satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from releasing its latest edition – which features a caricature of the editor and a Muslim character in a slobbery make-out kiss. Had the Muslim character been drawn with a turban I’m sure it would be inferred as the Prophet Mohammad (Gawker thinks […]
Yesterday I kicked off the annual donation drive with the goal to raising the equivalent of a minimum wage compensation ($7.25/hr). At the end of the yesterday I tallied it up, divided by the estimated number of hours per year and came up with $1.45/hour. Which isn’t bad as that is approximately 20% of the […]
Marla is a gem, but today’s Retail is a reminder of how well working in the mall helps young people understand the world of employment.The relationship between the mall office and individual tenants can occasionally be fraught. The real relationship, of course, is between the mall ownership and the store ownership, neither of whom are […]
If you haven’t made it a weekly read, I encourage you to bookmark and visit the Gil “Road to Syndication” blog maintained by King Features editor Brendan Burford and Gil (and Retail) creator Norm Feuti. This week they’re talking about how to take a rough character (Gil’s father) that worked well on the web and […]
I found a couple changes for this week:The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is now the guest cartoonist in the Seattle Times. Dustin has replaced Peanuts in a paper that belongs to the KPC News chain in Indiana. It’s hard to tell from the joint news site, so Dustin is in one or more of […]
I mentioned last year that Sony Pictures was developing a 3D CG version of Popeye. Maybe “developing” was a bit of a stretch in the original Coming Soon post. Comic book resources has hired the guys (Jay Scherick and David Ronn) behind the recent Smurf movie to write the script.There’s no release date projected. I’m […]
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot is on her way to Haiti to join 450 other volunteers for Habitat for Humanity. The group plans to build 100 homes in Leogane. Due to lack of internet, she plans to tweet her experiences. I’m posting her initial ones below (most recent to older tweets):This build is on land […]
I was kind of hoping to lessen the political stuff in the mix, but today’s Candorville is irresistable.Darrin Bell must have some short deadlines, but, in any case, he rolled the dice and won with this one, since Cain has not yet manned up and faced the situation. A fine, fine job of anticipating the […]