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Free: Syndicate media kits
Feb 8, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Over the years, I’ve received media kits from most of the recent syndicate launches. After reviewing them, I’ve kept them in a box, but now I need to clear out the office. I’m offering the following media kits to whomever wants them (collectively or individually). Contact me if you’re interested in any of them. I [...]
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Shoe character to be arrested this Sunday
Feb 5, 2010 by Alan Gardner
This Sunday, Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk, chief reporter for TheTreetops-Tattler, will be arrested for refusing to reveal the source of his shocking story about the true identity of Bo, the White House dog. The story-line plays off a story that ran on the comic’s companion website, The Treetops-Tattler.
From their press release:
In the SHOE comic, which is [...]
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Shannon Wheeler’s rejected New Yorker cartoons coming to print
Feb 5, 2010 by Alan Gardner
BOOM! Town, a new imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced they will be printing a collection of rejected cartoons submitted to The New Yorker by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler entitled I Thought You Would Be Funnier.
Regarding the volume Shannon says, “This is some of the best work I’ve ever done.”
| Section: Books | 1 Comment - Discuss » |
Mr. Media interviews Ziggy’s Tom Wilson
Feb 5, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Bob Andelman interviewed Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson yesterday in his latest Mr. Media podcast.
| Section: Comic strips | 2 Comments - Discuss » |
Sacco’s investigative-reporting war comic book
Feb 5, 2010 by Alan Gardner
The LA Times interviews Joe Sacco on his latest book “Footnotes in Gaza” Joe is credited as inventing the genre of cartoonist-correspondent. In this book he investigates the massacre of 275 Palestinians in 1956 by Israel during the Suez Crisis.
All the ingredients were present for a violent denouement. It came, according to a United Nations [...]
| Section: Graphic Novels | 2 Comments - Discuss » |
Textbooks signed for iPad, Apple courts newspapers
Feb 5, 2010 by Alan Gardner
CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port their textbooks to upcoming iPad.
Announced on Wednesday, the agreements were made with ScrollMotion, a company that develops the iPhone e-reader app Iceberg Reader and works with publishers to digitize their books for the mobile [...]
| Section: Newspaper industry | 0 Comments - Discuss » |
Avatar surpasses Titanic as top grossing film
Feb 4, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Animated news reports that last weekend Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time. It has taken in $601 million to Titanic’s $600 million in domestic receipts. Titanic is still #1 when adjusted for inflation, but Avatar’s forecasted take-in is between $650 million to $700 million. When including Worldwide sales, the [...]
| Section: Movies | 10 Comments - Discuss » |
College president apologizes for cartoon
Feb 4, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Delta College president Jean Goodnow has apologized to the for the hurt and disappointment caused by a cartoon that ran in the campus newspaper which painted the city of Saginaw MI as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon has prompted outrage from several community leaders and prompted a community forum that included [...]
| Section: College cartoonists | 4 Comments - Discuss » |
The Secret of Kells up for Best Animated Feature
Feb 4, 2010 by Alan Gardner
I reported earlier that Up was nominated for Best Picture – something rarely done for an animated film. I briefly mentioned it was also nominated in the Animated Feature Film category. What I did not mentioned was the other contenders which include: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of [...]
| Section: Animation | 2 Comments - Discuss » |
Editorial cartooning exhibit opens at Duke University
Feb 4, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Chris Lamb author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States” will be the guest speaker to open a new editorial cartooning exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. The exhibit explores “the significance and impact of political caricature by comparing images [...]
| Section: Editorial cartooning | 3 Comments - Discuss » |
Tall Tales Radio interviews Rick Kirkman
Feb 4, 2010 by Alan Gardner
Tom Racine interviews Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues in his latest podcast. Topics include “working with his old friend and colleague Jerry Scott, and their interesting and frustrating journey into television animation!”
| Section: Comic strips | 1 Comment - Discuss » |
Chicago Tribune increases size of some comics
Feb 3, 2010 by Alan Gardner
The Chicago Tribune is responding to reader complaints about the illegibility of some if its comics by increasing the size it runs several of those comics. Two features, The Argyle Sweater and Bliss will be enlarged by 15% and Baby Blues, Blondie, Cathy, Classic Peanuts, Dilbert, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse, Frazz, Hagar the [...]
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