Video: Success in Comics Seminar promo video
The Success in Comics Seminar is now less than a month away. The Tundra guys, Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, have produced a little promo video:
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Interviewed: Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has interviewed Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. BILL GRIFFITH audio excerpt: “I’m sure somebody will be offended, which will be nice-to still offend somebody after all these years. People who only know Zippy comics through King Features will probably be surprised to see that Zippy was more […]
Rare Calvin & Hobbes, comic book art up for auction
Heritage Auction will be auctioning off several highly prized pieces of comic art next month including on original Calvin & Hobbes cover art for Bill Watterson’s 1989-1990 18-month calendar that is expected to fetch more than $50,000. Due to Watterson’s reclusiveness and that he kept most of his artwork to himself, the few originals that […]
Check out: Internationalized Zits
Jim Borgman has posted a write-up of what Zits looks like outside North America. Not acne, but the comic strip which is often renamed, recolored and republished in different formats in 27 countries and 15 different languages.Jim writes:The Zits foreign book publishing program has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But from […]
Why Edison Lee isn’t on Amazon: It’s printed in USA
Anne Hambrock has reposted an excellent article detailing how she and her husband John went about self publishing their first collection of his strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. She mentions that they’re not selling the book on Amazon and offers this as one of the reasons:Which is when I realized that we had […]
Tom Gammill releases another Learn To Draw
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Batiuk to release Complete Funky Winkerbean collection
Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be releasing the first volume of a Complete Funky Winkerbean collection this year. The collection is being released to coincide with the feature’s 40th anniversary. The first volume will contain cartoons from the years 1972-1974. At the time Tom was a jr. high school art teacher and the carton […]
John Lara dies at the age of 57
Cartoonist and illustrator John Lara has passed away at an early age of 57. His cartoons appeared in many Southern California papers and nationally. Away from the drawing board, he served as master of ceremonies for the Brooks Street Surfing Classic and was a guest speaker for “Let’s Hook Up,” which referred to fishing in […]
Interviewed: Tom Richmond
Over at Tall Tale Radio Tom Racine interviews NCS President, MAD Mag cartoonist and author Tom Richmond and discuss the new NCS award for “Best Online Comic,” his trip to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and his new book, “The Mad Art of Caricature.”
Video Profile: Jim Davis and Garfield
Three minute video with Garfield creator Jim Davis talking about his early formula for creating the now world famous cat.Via Mike Lynch
Las Vegas Comic seminar adds Brian Crane
The Success in the World of Comics Seminar has made a line-up change. Due to a conflict Debbra Abeyta of Vertis is unable to present. Pickles creator Brian Crane has agreed to be one of the speakers. Brian is one of those genuinely nice guys. Glad to see that he’ll be presenting.Bill Kellogg, the seminar […]
Katzenjammer Kids, Archie artists inducted into Hall of Fame
From Robot6 comes news that The Katzenjammer Kids cartoonist Rudolph Dirks and Archie artist Harry Lucey will be inducted into the Will Eisner Awards Hall of Fame. Aside from the two mentioned above who will get automatic induction, 14 others have been nominated which include: Bill Blackbeard, Howard Chaykin, Richard Corben, Carlos Ezquerra, Lee Falk, […]
Using iBooks Author to create comics collection
Andertoons’ Mark Anderson takes a look at the newly released iBooks Author software from Apple as a way of creating an cartoon collection eBook.As I’m sure you’ve heard, Apple recently entered the textbook market in a big way. They’ve partnered with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, revamped the iBooks app/store, and created the […]
Plain Dealer explains why it pulled Non Sequitur
Cleveland Plain Dealer Reader Representative Ted Diadiun writes the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s response as to why they pulled a recent Non Sequitur from their line up and due to time constraints left the space blank save an editorial message stating it had been pulled and a replacement couldn’t be found in time for print. The […]
Canadian cartoonist visit children’s hospital
As mentioned earlier, three members of the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society were visiting the McMaster Children’s Hospital to draw for children and family members. Chapter president Mike Cope, Patricia Storms and Jonathan Mahood made the trip on Friday. The Hamilton Spectator did a nice write-up. Mike and Jonathan have both posted photos […]