Congrats to Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries, who is celebrating her features’s fifth year in syndication as of yesterday.On her blog, she’s looking back at what she’s learned in these last five years.In honor of the 5-year mark, here are the TOP 5 things that syndication has taught me: 5. Gut-wrenching heartache. Forget […]
Bob Andelman, AKA Mr. Media has a great four part interview with Hagar the Horrible cartoonist Chris Browne. Here are the four parts nicely embedded.
Chris Onstad’s webcomic Achewood is going on hiatus – at least temporarily. Chris outlines his plans on a temporary blog after the news swamped his servers.On why he’s putting it on the backburner:Another nagging idea which slowly grew from a whorl in the tub to a Pacific gyre was that, as I wrote piece after […]
Another nugget of excellent advice from Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove regarding the keeping of sketchbooks. I used to be afraid of brand new sketchbooks. The blank, pristine pages were intimidating, and seemed to look back at me with a demanding stare: Draw Something! The pages wanted something else from me, too ? they […]
Mike Rhode interviews Derf in his Washington City Paper column. WCP: What other type of cartooning or illustration do you do? Derf: I’m a graphic novelist. My last book, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, was included in the prestigious Best American Comics 2010 and my next one, My Friend Dahmer, a memoir of my teenage […]
Brock Heasley became really close to closing down his five-year-old webcomic Superfogeys after feeling more and more like he needed to devote his time to other things. He was convinced the keep the story going and turn over the drawing to another artist. Starting next week Marc Lapierre’s work will debut.Change is hard. I appreciate […]
Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch has launched the first of a 12 part series of online western movies. First is embedded below.Black Coffee: Chapter 1 of Trails of Tarnation from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo.HT: Robot 6
This last fall at the triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at the OSU, Sheldon creator Dave Kellett gave an entertaining lecture on the future of comics from his vantage point as a professional webcomic cartoonist. His approach to the topic was to offer a response to Bill Watterson’s infamous “The Cheapening of Comics” speech given […]
John Glynn reports that Matthew Inman new book “5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)” has hit #2 on Amazon.com The book is published by Andrews McMeel. Amazon is selling it for only $7.72 (48% off list price.)
Terry Laban, co-creator of Edge City, is launching new online graphic novel entitled, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman. Here’s how he describes it:The mean streets of LA have nothing on the frigid forests of Siberia when it comes to danger, and Muktuk Wolfsbreath needs all his shamanic power s to deal with the wicked women, […]
Comic book and Rex Morgan, M.D. artist Graham Nolan has announced that his webcomic Sunshine State has been picked up for syndication, but hasn’t announced with which. Launch date is in the May/June timeline and if I had to guess, I’d say it will be through King Features. Either way, Congrats Graham! There are a […]
Ed Power and Melissa DeJesus’ My Cage is back. The short run comic that run through King Features Syndicate is now re-running on GoComics.com as of yesterday. Ed tells me that if there is enough positive response, new comics will be posted. Melissa re-colored the first 2 months of daily strips. The first week had […]
This year’s Glyph Comic Award nominees have been announced. Winners will announced at the 2011 Glyph Comics Awards ceremony held in conjunction with the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) on May 20.Story of the Year Afrodisiac; Jim Rugg, co-writer and artist; Brian Maruca, co-writer BB Wolf and the 3 LPs; JD Arnold, […]
A couple more milestone to report. Gary Tyrrell reports over on Fleen that Brad Guigar’s Evil, Inc is now in it’s 11th year.Richard Thompson reports that his Cul de Sac feature is seven years old now . It first launched as a weekly feature in the Washington Post on Valentines Day in 2004. The feature […]
This year Mark Anderson’s Andertoons.com turns 10. Mark started the website to post samples of his work but kept adding cartoons and features. Now it’s a leading cartoon bank with thousands of cartoons for purchase or to commission an original. Mark plans on taking his cartoons on the road this summer to various fairs and […]