Tagged as: comics

Entertaining five minute piece where Bizarro creator Dan Piraro recounts the process of creating a comic in the pre-digital era.

I just looked at the list of top grossing movies in 2013. Interestingly five of the ten have some sort of connection to comics, graphic novels, animation or comic books. Rank Title 2013 Gross 1 Iron Man 3 $408,992,272 2 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $400,088,390 3 Despicable Me $367,860,095 4 Man of Steel $291,045,518 […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: He’s baaaaack!  Doug Adams, author of “The Music of Lord of the Rings” who graced the halls of Tall Tale Radio back in 2010 in episode 98, joins me again to talk […]

Matthew Sparkes at The Telegraph: Google has been awarded a patent for what it humourlessly calls “a system for electronically creating comic strip communications” which can be integrated into social networking websites and apps. The search giant noticed that many sites were offering an automated way to create short comic strips, allowing users to enter […]

Shia LaBeouf, who has admitted to using dialog and direct adaptation from a Daniel Clowes comic written in 2007, has taken to the skies above Los Angeles yesterday to apologize to the artist. The skywriting (see photo above) was commissioned and tweeted by LaBeouf. The Guardian notes that Daniel lives in San Francisco Bay Area […]

I had the chance to talk to Scott before the holiday hiatus. I’m still working on getting our conversation transcribed – but we talked about systems vs goals. Using systems rather than goals might not be for everyone – some people are just goal driven (and that’s a good thing), but others may not have […]

Hat tip: Mike Lynch

South Florida Business Journal profiles Hugh MacLeod who has carved out a niche in the business world creating inspirational cartoons. I remember seeing Hugh’s early work and it’s cool to see where he’s taken it. MacLeod and his company Gaping Void have landed big corporate clients who seek him out to boost or change their […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Mark Anderson of Andertoons.com is here to talk about how you take your talent for cartooning and market it to the world to make a living!  His stuff has been in Forbes, […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Maria Scrivan of the comic “Half Full” joins me to talk about her path to syndication, her most excellent magazine comics work for Parade and MAD, her week-long stint filling in for […]

Eric Jaffe explores the idea that humans are hardwired for the visual language of comics.Language is more than just a series of words strung together. A sentence must have some essential structure, some system of rules governing words and clauses–a grammar. You don’t have to be Strunk or White to recognize this system at work; […]

From Buzzfeed: Shia LaBeouf posted his new short film HowardCantour.com online on Monday, having first debuted the work at the May 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The piece stars Jim Gaffigan as an online film critic named Howard Cantour, and it is almost a direct adaptation of Justin M. Damiano, a 2007 comic written and drawn […]

On the wake of the Ohio State University Festival of Comic art comes the announcement that two new courses on the topic of comics will be offered in the spring. The classes are offered through the English department and are entitled, “Pictures That Tick ? Difficult History in Comics” and “Comics & Time”.From the description […]

Dilbert creator Scott Adams and Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis did a video for Wacom on the topic of analog vs. digital.

This week’s sponsor of The Daily Cartoonist is John Rose, the cartoonist behind Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was one of the strips that ran in my hometown paper growing up. I have fond memories of laying down on the floor in front of the fireplace reading all of the […]