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Review: Creating comics goes social with Bitstrips
Bitstrips launched earlier this month as the latest new social web social 2.0 social web application to make webcomics easy. Did I mention that it was social? I was curious about the site both from a technical perspective and how it would treat comics. It was a big hit at this year’s South by South [...]
Posted on: Mar 20, 2008, Section: Technology, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Bob Staake still using Photoshop 3.0
I found these videos to be fascinating. Bob Staake has posted three videos of him doing illustrations digitally using Photoshop 3.0. For those not Photoshop savvy, Photoshop is currently up to version 10 or 11 (they changed their versioning convention to “Creative Suit” or CS - so now they’re at CS3).
From Drawn!
Posted on: Jan 4, 2008, Section: Technology, Comments: 13 Comments
Tom Richmond reviews OS X 10.5 Leopard
Tom Richmond has been running Apple’s new OS X 10.5 AKA Leopard for a while now. He’s posted an artist-centric review of the OS on his blog.
He writes:
A week or so ago Apple released the first update to Leopard in version 10.5.1. I had already installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro to get the hang [...]
Posted on: Nov 28, 2007, Section: Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Amazon’s Kindle - the reader we’ve been waiting for for comics?
There’s been some publicity about Amazon’s new Kindle product for electronic material (books, blogs, newspapers). We’ve had discussions on this blog about how newspapers may evolve and how mobile technology might play into that (see discussion in comments of this story). I look at this and wonder if products like this might be what [...]
Posted on: Nov 25, 2007, Section: Technology, Comments: 20 Comments
Text your own gags onto This Modern World
How cool is this? Over on Tom Tomorrow’s blog he writes that he created a series of cartoons that can be projected onto sides of buildings in San Francisco and Seattle as part of promotional efforts for a new mobile service. Passers by can text their punch-line into the empty word balloon, completing the cartoon. [...]
Posted on: Nov 9, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 3 Comments
Support this blog by pre-ordering Mac OS X Leopard via Amazon Affiliated Links
Apple as announced that Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will ship on October 26th and I know many of you use Apple computers. If you plan to purchase an upgrade, please consider doing so through the Amazon affiliated links in this blog post and elsewhere on the blog. I’ll get a small commission off the [...]
Posted on: Oct 24, 2007, Section: Technology, Comments: 3 Comments
Dennis the Menace on Your Mobile Phone
The Times Online (UK) reports that Dennis the Menace will now be available on your mobile phone through ROK Comics which also provides Garfield, Doonesbury. However visiting ROK’s web site reveals nothing about this latest news.
Posted on: Aug 20, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 4 Comments
GoComics to release first mobile phone comic book
From Universal Press Syndicate comes news that GoComics will be releasing the first mobile phone comic book on August 20th. The comic entitled, “Thunder Road” will be delivered as a slideshow to the phone. “Thunder Road” is created by Sean Demory and drawn by Steven Sanders and is a “post-apocalyptic, diesel punk action adventure” - [...]
Posted on: Jul 31, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 2 Comments
Newspaper editor has beef with King Features’s online DailyINK
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to King Features Syndicate saying the existence of King’s DailyINK online service may mean King “places little value on syndication fees.” And he wondered if the syndicate should start paying newspapers to run comics.
Posted on: Sep 25, 2006, Section: Controversies, Daily Cartoonist, King Features, Newspaper industry, Syndicates, Technology, Comments: 10 Comments
Phil Frank’s Farley web site launched
For those who are not familiar with Farley, here is the wikipedia entry for the feature and artist:Farley is a American comic strip written and drawn by Phil Frank, appearing daily (except Saturday) in the San Francisco Chronicle. The strip originally began in 1975 as Travels With Farley, a nationally syndicated strip, but missing the “timeliness and joy of doing local politics” and dissatified with the four-to-six week lead time required of syndication, switched to working exclusive for the Chronicle, enabling him to quickly mine local events — usually overnight — for his satire.Phil collaborates on The Elderberries with Joe Troise.
Posted on: Aug 21, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Nick Anderson animated editorial cartoon hits YouTube
Nick Anderson’s latest 3-D animated editorial cartoon has been copied over to YouTube where it has climbed to #11 in most linked to video on YouTube and has been watched 1,273 times.
Posted on: Aug 9, 2006, Section: Editorial cartooning, Technology, Comments: 1 Comment
Nick Anderson posts animated editorial cartoon
The cartoon touches on the Republican redistricting in Texas and last weeks related ruling from the Supreme Court.From his blog:Welcome to the Houston Chronicle’s first attempt at online animation…. As we get better, and learn the process, we hope to increase the frequency.The cartoon concept, art and direction was Nick’s, but the animation looks to be a team effort by a number of Chron employees.
Posted on: Jul 3, 2006, Section: Editorial cartooning, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Mark Anderson’s site adds e-commerce capabilities
Today he’s announced that potential customers can browse his cartoon collection and purchase them on the spot. Check out his blog for details and visit his web site/online store.
Posted on: Jun 30, 2006, Section: Blogs, Cartoons, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
Zits now on your mobile phone
Zits has joined several other comic features to be added as premium content for mobile phone users. Airborne Entertainment announced that it has signed a deal with King Features to allow Zits to be used on mobile phones.
Posted on: Jun 22, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
KAL’s digital Bush puppet ready to be revealed
KAL did a demonstration of the puppet at the AAEC convention in Denver and was officially unveiled at a press conference Monday (and will again on the 25th at the Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum where KAL’s exhibit “Mightier Than in Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL”Cartoonist’s Digital Bush Puppet to Debut:There’s life after The Sun of Baltimore for editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher — and part of that life involves George W…. 3 exhibit entitled “Mightier Than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL.”The puppet will converse and answer questions in “real time” at the June 12 and June 25 events, said KAL, adding that digital Dubya “can be animated daily in reaction to current news.”KAL discussed and showed footage of the Bush puppet at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in Denver, and also talked about his creation with E&P.
Posted on: Jun 14, 2006, Section: Editorial cartooning, Technology, Comments: 2 Comments
