Peanuts Worldwide and Iconix has announced they’re strategically partnering with several entities to expand the Peanuts brand and products deeper into the digital market. Here are a few of the partnerships and products slated to be released: Peanuts has partnered with Capcom to release a new video game for smartphones and tablets this fall. You’ll […]
From Stephan’s blog in which he reveals a failed attempted to knock off Jerry Scott to open more slots on the comic page.:Jerry writes the comic strips Zits (1,600 papers) and Baby Blues (900 papers). And newspaper slots are hard to come by these days. So I devised a plan. It began with a “family […]
Last week the Southern District Court of New York ruled against heirs of Jack Kirby in their suit to reclaim copyright for many of Marvel’s best known characters. The Comics Journal has a great piece on the differences between this case and the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster cases against DC Comics:Some legal observers were expecting Marvel […]
Profiled over at the Boston Globe are KC Green, Andrew Hussie, Jeffrey Rowland, Jeph Jacques, and Richard Stevens who have all gone professional with their webcomics.Webcomics were once seen as a new path to syndication. Comic artists would post their work online, hoping to attract a large enough fan base that syndicates would take notice, […]
The Glen Rock Patch posted a profile of Hy Eisman the current cartoonist for E.C. Segar’s Popeye.But the 84-year-old Eisman – just 2 years old when Popeye the Sailor Man debuted in the King Features comic strip “Thimble Theater” in 1929 – does more than just continue to turn out the weekly strip featuring a […]
This video was posted yesterday and highlights Bill Mauldin who was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame back in 1991. I’m unsure why it was posted just now, unless the TV station is going back and highlighting notable individuals in the Walk of Fame (that said, I’m sure to be in the Walk […]
Interesting piece over on Nuvo about former editorial cartoonist and now illustrator Stacy Curtis and friend Dave Windisch who have been doing screen printing and posters printing under the business name Mile 44 since 2004 for indie bands.Mile 44, as the duo is known, began printing in Chicago in 2004. After learning the craft from […]
Bill Amend’s The Best of FoxTrot is steeply discounted over at Amazon right now. Regularly priced at $40, it’s now priced at $16.00. At 560 pages that’s like less than $.03 a page. Amazon notes that these are bargain books and as such “are new but could include a small mark from the publisher and […]
Tom Gammill, creator of The Doozies and winner of seven golden Doozie posts another Learn to Draw video this time with Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite. The two embark on a visit to the Ernie Bushmiller Museum.Cathy’s line about the pioneering cartooning sweat drops of Bushmiller is awesome.
Cartoon Movement’s editorial team Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards are nearing the end of a month long stint in Haiti for a comics journalism project. The team hopes to a create a long-running comic chronicling problems facing Haiti that will be released in early 2012. They’ve posted six updates on the blog regarding their experiences […]
Mr. Lowe and Lucky Cow creator Mark Pett will be releasing his first picture book this fall. The book is entitled The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and was a collaboration with Gary Rubinstein. Mark was kind enough to answer a few questions about his book and whether illustration will be his new career direction.AG: […]
I found this article for MacWorld interesting. Jason Snell attended the San Diego Comic Con and compared creator’s love-fest with Digital comics for the iPad this year with yesteryear’s worry about digital comics. The part that interested me was this subject about whether to format your online comics for print (book collections) or for digital […]
Letterheady is a site devoted to showcasing letterhead design. Tom Spurgeon linked to a copy of letterhead used by Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. A bit of digging yields two different letterheads that Bill used. I also dug around to see what other cartoonists used a formal letterhead. I found one from Johnny Hart […]
Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell was awarded the 2011 Clampett Award at the Eisner awards ceremony at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The award is named after Bob Clampett, director of countless popular Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of Beany and Cecil.Past winners include Jeannie Schulz, Ray Bradbury, Sergio Aragonés, Archie Goodwin, Jack Kirby, Will […]
On the heals of the news of Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Steven’s ending of Oh Brother! comes more positive news for Bob. On August 12, 50 of his favorite Spot-The-Difference panels from his Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids feature will be available on the iPhone or iPad. The app will be introduced to […]