Dieselt Sweeties creator R Stevens decided to create an eBook using Apple’s newly released iBook Author. The result was a month’s worth of comics that was outputted as a PDF ebook. He estimates that it was downloaded 10,000 times. From GigaOm:Response to the format has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stevens said in a blog post, but […]
The Success in the World of Comics Seminar has made a line-up change. Due to a conflict Debbra Abeyta of Vertis is unable to present. Pickles creator Brian Crane has agreed to be one of the speakers. Brian is one of those genuinely nice guys. Glad to see that he’ll be presenting.Bill Kellogg, the seminar […]
Dan Piraro just celebrated 27 years of his comic panel Bizarro and has now drawn over 10,000 cartoons. He sums up his thoughts on his blog:So happy anniversary to me and to Bizarro. Here is a brief list of highlights from my career: 1985–got syndicated 1990–still syndicated 2000–syndicated some more 2010–can’t afford to quit 2012–more […]
The headline from the Daily Mail pretty much sums it up:University atheist society president forced to resign after cartoon of Muhammad having a drink with Jesus is posted on FacebookThe controversy is over a recent Jesus and Mo comic. The bi-weekly strip has been running since 2005.And here’s the offending cartoon.UPDATE:I was contacted by the […]
R. Stevens, creator of Diesel Sweeties, is releasing a free ebook version of his first Diesel Sweeties collection. It was first published in 2003 and includes the first hundred or so comics. The eBook has no DRM.
King Feature’s DailyINK app was voted People’s Champ in the Funny category in the 2011 Pixel Awards. The app is the mobile version of their online comic service. The Pixel Awards honor compelling websites and apps “that have shown excellence in web design and development.” Other nominees in the Funny category included: JibJab Media Inc, […]
Brad Guigar, creator of Evil Inc. and the editor of Webcomics.com was interviewed by Brigid Alverson for Comic Book Resource’s Robot 6 blog about Webcomics.com that went behind pay-wall two years ago. Robot 6: I want to start with a general question: Are webcomics still an important sector of the comics world? And how do […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has released his first iPad app called “Only the Pearls.” The app contains 250 of his favorite strips with 125 audio commentaries, 22 videos of himself and 12 animated strips.Here’s part of the description:For Only the Pearls, Pastis personally selected his favorite 250 strips. More than half of the […]
Jeff Payden’s Biff & Riley comic has moved from Comic Sherpa to GoComics.com as of Monday where it will be updated on Monday and Wednesdays. Jeff put the strip on Sherpa back in 2010. Biff & Riley are two dog brothers with completely different personalities and the strip follows their adventures.
In addition to the creation of a new online comic strip category, the National Cartoonists Society has announced their annual call for entries for their 15 division awards. The division categories include: Television Animation, Feature Animation, Newspaper Illustration, Gag Cartoons, Greeting Cards, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspaper Panel Cartoons, Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration, Book Illustration, Editorial Cartoons, […]
The National Cartoonists Society has created a new and separate award category for webcomics this year in its division awards. The category is simply named “On-Line Comic Strips” and requires that the feature be a comic strip (no single panel or long-form narrative), appear on the web only at least weekly, and the creator has […]
Just a reminder that we’re a few weeks away from Success in the World of Comics Seminar (February 25-26) in Vegas put on by the Tundra marketing genius Bill Kellogg and creator Chad Carpenter. If you didn’t attend the first you can read my notes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. […]
I mentioned this event back in November, but if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area don’t forget to put the Cartoon Art Museum’s Black and White and Read All Over exhibit on your calendar. The museum is also hosting Keith Knight and Stephan Pastis on the 12th of January wherein they’ll discuss their comics […]
Norm Feuti and King Features Syndicate launched Gil yesterday. The strip dates back to 2008 when Norm ran it as a webcomic after a first round of rejections by syndicates. After a couple of other submissions, Norm resubmitted the strip to King and was green lighted for a launch. From USA Today:“I don’t think the […]
To everyone celebrating Christmas (or the December holiday of your choosing), I wish you all a happy holiday. Stay safe and I’ll see you back here on January 3rd unless breaking news happens.To send you all off, here is a caption contest using my holiday card for this year. Put your best caption in the […]