The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is running an exhibit of Berkeley Breathed’s work entitled “From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed.” Along with the exhibit, the museum and IDW (who published the Bloom County: The Complete Collection) will be printing a limited edition, 96-page catalog featuring original artwork from Bloom […]
Sketchaholic interviews For Better of For Worse creator Lynn Johnston. It’s broken up into six parts – but they bleed into each other. I’ve written out what topic they are talking about at the beginning of each video.First video: Lynn talks about her start in cartooning. What’s harder? Getting exposure or gaining the talent? Where […]
Bob Scott’s Molly and the Bear has moved up from Comics Sherpa to join other web only comics on Gocomics.com. Bob is a veteran animator who has worked with Pixar and Dreamworks Animation. Tom Racine interviewed Bob back in 2009 for this Tall tale Radio podcast.
I’ve heard this complaint from other sources too.Lately I’ve gotten a number of bad batches of Strathmore bristol. The problem with them was they bled. Inking on them with a dip pen resulted in your line getting fuzzy and hairy-looking. Totally unusable. At first MAD sent me some boards that did that, and I couldn’t […]
Daniel Lieske, a German artist working as a digital artist at a German computer and console games company has started a new web graphic novel. Top rate digital art. Check it out.
Yesterday an anti-gay marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), linked to a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon by Zach Weiner – presumably because it was viewed of as pro-traditional sexuality. Zach was alerted to the image being used but was also alerted that the group was pulling the image directly from his server […]
Zack Smith writes about Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North and his successful anthology that briefly became Amazon’s number one book Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die.Nrama: The book became almost a rallying point for webcomics creators, given the extent of the collaboration and push it received. […]
Matthew Petz won last year’s Zuda monthly contest only to watch DC Comics close down Zuda. JK Parkin profiles Matthew’s relaunch of War of the Woods on ComiXology and how the rights to his creation were returned to him.Petz told me that when Zuda closed down, he was offered a percentage of what he would […]
The Webcomic List Awards have been announced. The top prize, Best Comic, went to Eddie Pitman for his comic Red’s Planet. Category award winners include:Best Writing Award – xkcd Best Color – Dresden Codak Best Black and White – The Abominable Charles Christopher Best Non-Traditional – Romantically Apocalyptic Best Character – Cleopatra in Space Best […]
Jeff Parker (the Portland, OR based comic book writer and artist) and illustrator Erika Moen have launched a new webcomic entitled Bucko. They describe the comic as:Poor Rich “Bucko” Richardson just wants to finally get a job and maybe have another opportunity to talk to that one cute girl he met at that party. A […]
There is a movement afoot and it’s not just in Tunisia and Egypt. Last week I posted a blurb about a post by Steve Niles about how comic creators should spend more time promoting comics they like and spend less time tearing comics they don’t like apart. That’s the message that resonated with me, but […]
I’ve dropped hints here and there that major changes were afoot here at The Daily Cartoonist. I want to take this opportunity to communicate what changes are coming and why. I created the blog five years ago as a means of better understanding where comics were heading – more specifically syndicated comic strips and editorial […]
Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler received a cease and desist letter from Franklin Covey telling him he’s infringed on their 7 habits trademark (made popular by Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”). Howard has a long running parody called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates,” which Franklin Covey felt infringed on […]
Tom Racine continues with his video podcasting. This time he’s interviewed Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli. Join me and Mark Tatulli, brilliant writer and artist behind the syndicated strips “Lio” and “Heart of the City.” We talk about his techniques, how blazingly fast he creates his comics (it’ll make you sick), […]
Steve Niles on the current comic climate and how to make it better.It’s not going to be easy. We have to figure out new ways to get material out to the public, learn new ways to reach and sell directly to fans. We’re going to have to be creative, supportive and very DIY sometimes, but […]