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GoComics opens up full archives for 14 days
Good news from the people at GoComics.
We at GoComics want to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Since it would be impractical to send each and every one of our users a big box of gamble chocolate or a even a little candy heart stamped “U R COOL”, we’re offering all users 14 days of [...]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Universal Press, Comments: 3 Comments
Universal Press celebrates 40 years in business
Universal Uclick editor John Glynn reports that Universal Press Syndicate is celebrating 40 years in business.
Money was tight in the beginning, and Andrews and McMeel didn’t have the funds to compete with the fancy New York and Chicago offices of the big syndicates. They initially worked in a makeshift office over O’Briens bar near [...]
Posted on: Feb 15, 2010, Section: Universal Press, Comments: 3 Comments
King Features VP to be Google Doodle juror
King Features Creative Vice President Frank Caruso has been asked to serve as one of the jurors for the national Doodle 4 Google Competition. The competition is open for all K-12 students in the United States and is base on this year’s theme, “If I could do Anything, I Would…” A Google “Doodle” is the [...]
Posted on: Feb 10, 2010, Section: Contests, King Features, Comments: 0 Comments
DailyInk: Don’t use Internet Explorer 8
The fine folks at King Features have sent out an advisory to its Daily Ink subscribers telling them they should use Firefox and not Internet Explorer 8 to view their Dailyink.com account to to performance issues. The advisory states that the issues “are related to the browser, not the dailyink.com site itself.”
Posted on: Jan 13, 2010, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Comments: 5 Comments
Hackers break into King Features Comics Kingdom
The Washington Post computer security blog is reporting that readers of the Timesunion.com Comics Kingdom section was compromised by hackers who injected code that prompted readers to download malicious software. The exploit was a newly discovered security flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The Comics Kingdom is King Features’ online revenue sharing comic product for [...]
Posted on: Dec 21, 2009, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Comments: 0 Comments
Uclick Redesigns Sherpa to Better Integrate with GoComics
Starting today Uclick’s Comics Sherpa service has adopted the same interface that has been available to GoComics users, accessable through a primary tab on the GoComics website. Now GoComicsPro subscribers will be able to add Comics Sherpa features to their custom comics page along with GoComics features.
Posted on: Nov 18, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Syndicates, Universal Press, Comments: 7 Comments
Success in Comics seminar notes: Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein, co-creator of Girls and Sports was the second speaker of the day here at the Success in Comics seminar. Andrew and Justin Borus started the comic strip while in college and self syndicated to other about 80 universities papers before they attempted self syndication to dailies. They set a goal back in 2004 [...]
Posted on: Sep 27, 2009, Section: Animation, Books, Creators, Self Syndication, Syndicates, Comments: 2 Comments
Success in Comics seminar notes: Cam Millward
Cam Millward was the final speaker on the first day of the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. Cam founded Canwest Editorial Services, one of the first pagination services for newspapers. Cam gave the audience a peak into the some of the layers of production that goes into getting comics from the cartoonist to [...]
Posted on: Sep 27, 2009, Section: Cartoons, Self Syndication, Syndicates, Comments: 0 Comments
Success in Comics seminar notes: Amy Lago
Amy Lago from the Washington Post Writers Group was the second speaker in the Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas. She gave a very frank presentation on the advantages and disadvantages of syndicating and self-syndication along with things to think about when submitting to a syndicate.
As to things to think about when submitting, she [...]
Posted on: Sep 26, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Self Syndication, Syndicates, Comments: 6 Comments
Success in Comics seminar notes: Chad Carpenter, Bill Kellogg
Today kicks of the two day Success in Comics seminar in Las Vegas organized by Tundra creator Chad Carpenter and marketing guru Bill Kellogg. The two were also the first speakers each telling how they grew Tundra to produce a living outside of syndication.
Chad talked about the first dozen years were he started the [...]
Posted on: Sep 26, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Licensing, Syndicates, Comments: 1 Comment
Comics.com goes down over weekend
After a couple of emails and tweets asking about why comics.com was unavailable over the weekend, I contacted United Media to ask why. According to Mary Anne Grimes, the “website host suffered a series of failures that caused intermittent problems throughout the weekend – some users were able to access the site, many could not. [...]
Posted on: Sep 8, 2009, Section: Comic strips, United Media, Comments: 1 Comment
Universal Uclick at San Diego Comic Con
Universal Uclick is attending this year’s San Diego Comic Con (booth #1217). The Uclick GoComics booth will be one of five locations throughout the convention center offering exclusive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia as part of the TMNT 25th Anniversary promotional event, and will also hold drawings Wednesday through Friday for tickets to the TMNT [...]
Posted on: Jul 17, 2009, Section: Alternative comics, Comic Books, Comic strips, Conventions, Editorial cartooning, Graphic Novels, Speaking Engagements, Universal Press, mobile, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
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