Scott Dikkers, founding and longtime editor of The Onion, is bringing back his classic comic strip Jim’s Journal to GoComics.com. Jim’s Journal ran in 200 or so college papers in the 1990s. The Chicago Tribune called it “fabulous,” and described the offbeat strip: “There are no punch lines, no sight gags, just quirky observations and […]
I’m sure there are many worthy artists and writers who are up for this year’s Hugo Award, but I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler who has been nominated in two categories: Best Related Work for his podcast called Writing Excuses that he does with Brandon […]
I’m reminded that Eisner Award voting is now open.If I understand the criteria – voting is open to: Comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists) All nominees in any category Comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors Comics historians and educators Graphic novel librarians Owners and managers of comic book specialty retail […]
Daryl Cagle has written an interesting post about the perceived value of editorial cartoons on the web.With the poor performance of their artist-name cartoons page, there was no way I could convince the Yahoo News people that editorial cartoons had value ? even with the popularity of our topical cartoon content on Cagle.com. Unfortunately, this […]
Anton Emdin, one of this year’s NCS nominees in the Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has posted a tutorial on inking with a brush. Inking is fun! There’s something intoxicating and slightly scary about laying down permanent ink over a sketch you may have spent hours on. When I was starting out I often felt that […]
Tom Racine finally succeeded in getting Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo on to his show. The amazingly funny and talented Rina Piccolo joins me to talk about her work. She’s a syndicated artist with two strips; “Tina’s Groove” and “Six Chix;” she’s a webcartoonist with the amazing “Velia, Dear;” AND she’s a gag cartoonist, having […]
GoComics has announced that they have added Paige Braddock’s Jane’s World to their line up of online comics. Below is an interview Paige gave regarding the newly released Peanuts movie, “Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown”Geek: Event Coverage – MTV GamesYou can find Jane’s World here.
John Read’s exhibit, “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages”, is heading to Boston in May. The exhibit will be free and be presented in the Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE) beginning May 2nd. It has over 130 nationally syndicated Sunday comics that appeared in papers April 11, 2010. The exhibit will be in […]
What a cool video. This is not the first animation of its kind, but it was a pioneering effort by Winsor McCay in 1911. The LA Times gives a bit context to how the animated film was conceived:McCay claimed that he got the idea for an animated film from flip books his son made. But […]
A group of comic book veterans are collaborating on a graphic novel anthology to raise money for Japan. Comic book legend Stan Lee has agreed to write the forward. The anthology is entitled “Japan Needs Heroes” and will include the work of writers Peter David (X-Factor and Hulk), Larry Hama (G.I. Joe and Wolverine) and […]
Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga are celebrating the fifth year mark of their webcomic nemu*nemu (pronounced “Neh-moo neh-moo”) at the end of this month. On April 29th, their first full-color book, “nemu*nemu – Out of this World” will be released. The book is comprised of the entire fifth year of comics, some of which have […]
Business Week has picked up The Joy of Tech and is now running the webcomic on their website, iPad and in their weekly magazine. This is a real thrill for us, as we are big fans of the magazine and its tech coverage, and with a circulation of over 917,000, we’ll be reaching a lot […]
Here’s the run down of April Fools day related comic pranks that I’ve found so far. John Glynn announces the Calvin and Hobbes Live Action MovieThere’s a bit of Daddy?s Home in Scary Gary and a bit of Scary Gary in Daddy?s HomeMichael Cavna reports that Disney outsourced Toy Story 4 to a Taiwanese studio. […]
GoComics.com has announced that comics running on their Comics Sherpa comics will do an April Fools Day switcheroo in the same vein as the now infamous Great April Fools’ Day Comics Switcheroonie back in 1997. Visit the Comics Sherpa portion of their site tomorrow to see which artists switched to which strips.The Great April Fools’ […]
Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man, has inked a three-book deal with Boom! Studios and Boom! Town. The three books include a graphic novel written by Simon Max Hill entitled “Grandpa Won’t Wake Up (due out this fall)”, a sequel to his rejected New Yorker cartoons collections (first collection sold out last year), […]