Tagged as: webcomics

They took over Halloween. Why not Christmas too?Via Robot6

Michael Cavna is taking votes for the best Comic Strip Of 2011 and best Webcomic of the Year. Head over to his blog to find his handy email address and send him your votes.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this admission is a life lesson for all of us.“I always think of myself as a cartoonist who couldn’t crack into newspapers,” he said recently by phone. Kinney created the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” main […]

Hark a Vagrant webcomic creator Kate Beaton is on her book tour promoting her book and as the CTV National News reports her fans were lined up around the block (click through link to watch video).Her book was also named in Amazon’s Best Comics and Graphic Novels for 2011. And has been on the New […]

Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo has written that for the next story-line in her webcomic Velia, Dear, she’s experimenting with starting a story-line with no end in mind.What am I getting at? It?s this ? the next story line is one that I am writing without a clear end in mind. This is a very […]

I’ve mentioned the webcomic Axe Cop before. For those who aren’t familiar, the older brother, Ethan Nicolle, decided to have his younger brother (at the time at age 6) write a story that he would then illustrate. As you can imagine the mind of a six year old has no limits and the resulting work […]

A big thanks to those who donated yesterday (see below). Tyson Cole, creator of the college cartoon The Deep End Scott Nickel, MAD cartoonist and creator of EEK! Jerry Scott, co-creator of Zits and Baby Blues Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary Tom Heintjes, Editor of Hogan Magazine Kelly Ferguson, creator of Basket Case Comix […]

Another big thanks to everyone that donated yesterday. Typically each ensuing day of the drive the donations drop, but yesterday the drop wasn’t as big as I expected. I’ve also updated the “check” to reflect yesterday’s giving. The equivalent compensation is now $2.45/hr (I over-reported yesterday’s as $1.45 but it should have been $1.33).Here are […]

Zack Smith over at Newsarama interviews webcomic maker Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary about his strip and production of his webcomic. Howard is one of the web guys I greatly admire and whose counsel I trust. He’s got a good business sense about what he does.A sample:Nrama: You have iPad and iPod apps for […]

GoComics.com announces that starting tomorrow the Pibgorn “Mozart and the Demon Lover” story-line will kick off but will include Brooke McEldowney’s running commentary. Think of it as the director’s notes on a DVD extra.

Yesterday I kicked off the annual donation drive with the goal to raising the equivalent of a minimum wage compensation ($7.25/hr). At the end of the yesterday I tallied it up, divided by the estimated number of hours per year and came up with $1.45/hour. Which isn’t bad as that is approximately 20% of the […]

If you haven’t made it a weekly read, I encourage you to bookmark and visit the Gil “Road to Syndication” blog maintained by King Features editor Brendan Burford and Gil (and Retail) creator Norm Feuti. This week they’re talking about how to take a rough character (Gil’s father) that worked well on the web and […]

I skipped the donation drive last year. I spent quite a lot of time reflecting if the blog was the best use of my time. Quite honestly for several weeks I considered walking away – even going as far as researching how to sell the blog and writing a draft announcing that it was going […]

Misery Loves Sherman creator (and Eisner and Harvey award nominee) Chris Eliopoulos has penned (or typed) a must read for anyone working their way up in the comic industry. The topic – not how to break into comics, but how to stay.If you’re good enough, you’re not good enough. I hear so many people wanting […]

Terry LaBan is wrapping up Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman the online graphic novel he resurrected in March after a 14-year hiatus. Terry has put the first 4 chapters in a slideshow for anyone wanting to delve into the story. Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman first appeared in the Fantagraphic series Cud and the Dark […]