From the New York Post: Rovio, the Finnish company which created the mobile app, will produce an animated “Angry Birds” series for TV or the Web. “We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now — to work on broadcast content […]

The temperature has just climbed up to 1. For those from outside the US, that’s 1F as in “too cold to bother doing the conversion.”After a little more than 24 hours of this subzero stuff, 1 is almost an insult, like the thermometer is just goofin’ with me.In such times, the only refuge comes in […]

It’s going to be sensory overload for die-hard Pearls Before Swine fans now that animated versions of the strip start appearing on comics. com today. For anyone who’s ever wondered what the Crocs’ accent sounds like or how Pig withstands Rat’s physical punishment, they will have to “tune in” to find out.“Now others can finally […]

The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) profiles Pickles creator Brian Crane who will be visiting Salt Lake City this Saturday for a book signing promoting his fifth comic collection, “How Come I Always Get Blamed For the Things I Do? A Pickles Collection” The book also comes as Brian crosses the 20 year milestone […]

Remember back in December I highlighted Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis’ video promotion of his new book with Universal Uclick editor John Glynn as being an example of how to promote your book in a social media/viral environment. Stephan has posted a follow up video – the outtakes.

Is Chicago becoming ‘center of comic universe’? – that’s what the Museum of Contemporary Art is trying to promote – along with their new exhibit “New Chicago Comics.” The exhibit focuses on Chicago artist Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen.From the Sun Times: Chicago’s relative affordability, prominent art school and expanding cartoonist […]

The Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN) reports the new Dick Tracy team: Joe Staton and Mike Curtis who both have TN roots. “In comics, like on the Internet, everybody knows everybody,” he said. “I’ve drawn thousands of comics. I’ve drawn detectives and funny comics. Whenever I’ve answered the question, ‘What is your dream project?’ ‘Dick Tracy’ […]

The Comics Code Authority was created in 1954 after public and congressional concern over violence in comics. Think of it as an early MPAA rating – making sure every comic publisher who wanted to sell a comic with the stamp of approval had to refrain from certain content. Newsarama reports that Archie Comics and DC […]

  Yesterday, I said that, while I’m properly in awe of Winsor McCay’s artistry, I don’t feel total reverence for his classic strip, Little Nemo, because I’m a storyteller, not an artist. As Gilda suggested in the comments yesterday, his illustrations were amazing, but the actual storytelling was not his long suit.Here’s a cartoonist who […]

In today’s Cul de Sac, Petey escapes into the world of Little Neuro scholarship, which is different than escaping into the world of Little Neuro himself. Alice is suitably impressed. I don’t know if you’re allowed to make fun of comics scholarship or not, but there you have it. And I’m pretty sure you’re not […]

  Phil Dunlap has been doing little character profiles for his Ink Pen crew from time to time, and I don’t have any doubt that they are fillers, for which purpose they are better than just throwing in a lame joke, but, on the other hand, it’s hard to consider any of them a potential […]

Brad Mackay has posted what he believes is an early art contest submission by Art Spiegelman when Art was approximately 15 years old. This is a pretty great find. Recently Montreal cartoonist Rick Trembles was combing through a stack of old CARtoons magazines he nabbed from a flea market and spotted a winning submission to […]

Marvel comics artist (and Eisner Award nominated series ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’) Skottie Young is testing the waters of digital publishing. Like most internet strategies – the idea is to cut out the middleman (Apple, Amazon, etc.) and sell directly to the public. After a week of selling a digital version of his book […]

The new comic Reply All by Donna A. Lewis’ debuts in February through Washington Post Writers Group. Jewish Times profiles Donna. Enter Lizzie, the “star” of “Reply All,” a new comic strip scheduled to debut on Monday, Feb. 28, through the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate. Penned by Baltimore-born cartoonist Donna A. Lewis, “Reply All” […]

This came news to me as I was under the impression that Japan loved their anime and manga regardless of moral biases. From The Comics Journal: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s successful passage last month of legislation targeting manga, anime and video games for vaguely defined “morally offensive” imagery has been recorded in this column, as […]