The Janesville Gazette has an interesting profile on Mr. Bofo creator Joe Martin. Included is info on his three comics, “Mr. Bofo,” “Willy n? Ethel,” and ?Cats with Hands? and his pioneering efforts to embed QR codes (quick response) into his feature. But in the last three decades, Martin has built one of the industry?s […]
USA Today looks at the success of DeviantArt – a website for artists to post their work and get attraction.LuVisi’s experience isn’t a rarity. Many artists talk of finding work and careers through their exposure on DeviantArt, a site that has been around for 11 years and now attracts more people looking at art daily […]
Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic The Oatmeal, has had to threaten legal action against FunnyJunk.com – a user-generated content site that had about every one of Matthew’s comics mirrored on the site with no link backs or in some cases acknowledgement of who the original artist was. Ars Technica reports on the fight to […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages exhibit continues across the US and he was able to land it in Boston in time for the NCS Reuben Awards last weekend. BackBay Patch has a great write-up of the exhibit and the attendees.There was no shortage of cartoon royalty on hand, from Bill Keane […]
As attendees of the 2011 National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award weekend return home and post their thoughts, experiences and photos of the previous weekend, I’ll link to them here.One pre-Reuben item: this weekend, Tom Richmond takes the helm of the NCS for a four year term as NCS President replacing outgoing president Jef Keane. Correction: […]
Jeff Kinney, creator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will be the featured guest at the Schulz Museum on June 11th. The event is free while tickets last. Jeff will talk about the books success and his participation in the movies based on his feature. He’ll also sign books.
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has posted an interview with Ivan Brunetti, author of the new book, “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice” described as, “literally a 15-week master course in the art, grown from his practical experience teaching at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. In a mere 88 pages, Brunetti dispenses exactly what […]
Last night was the 2011 Reuben Award and division award. Richard Thompson took home the top honor of Cartoonist Of The Year for his feature, Cul de Sac. The other two nominees were: Glen Keane and Stephan Pastis.In the division awards, the winners are:TELEVISION ANIMATION Dave Filoni ? Supervising Director / Production Designer, ?Star Wars: […]
Tom Racine has posted his latest podcast with interviews with Soup to Nutz creator Rick Stromoski and Tundra marketing guru Bill Kellogg.
Fort Knox cartoonist Paul Jon is commemorating Memorial Day this year by creating a story-line to honor the civilians that supported their country on the home front. The story-line began yesterday and will introduce the Wesley Knox character to the “Rosie the Riveters” – women who built ships during WWII while most men were serving […]
With the big announcement back in February that United Media was turning over syndication operations to Universal Press Syndicate, it was also followed that all the comics found on comics.com would join up with gocomic.com in June. We’re one week away and Universal has announced how it will all work going forward. Starting on June […]
Yesterday Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson and Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna were on NPR discussing Richard’s strip and his career.Transcript
Josh Ferrin, the 2004 Locher Award winner, recently relocated back to Salt Lake City and this week closed on the purchase of a house. This weekend he went up into the attic and found several old ammunition cases filled with money. An estimated $50,000 squirreled away by the previous owner who passed away last November. […]
Bill Rechin, creator of “Crock,” “Out of Bounds” and “Pluribus,” has passed away at the age of 80 due to complications to esophageal cancer.“He was a cartoonist’s cartoonist,” said Mel Lazarus, creator of “Momma” and “Miss Peach.” Rechin’s signature is the giant nose. His unmistakable characters usually have sloping shoulders and drooping bellies. His comic […]
Just got word from Bill Kellogg that he and Tundra creator Chad Carpenter are planning for another Success In Comics seminar. Once again to keep costs low for participants, they’re looking at Las Vegas in February. They haven’t ruled out an east coast venue at a later date. The seminar will follow the same format […]