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Eddie Pittman’s “Red’s Planet” Joins Wishtales

I’ve mentioned before Eddie Pittman’s excellent web graphic novel Red’s Planet. This week Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden announced that Eddie has agreed to publish through their Wishtales publishing studio.
From the press release:
Pittman recently began publishing his all-ages science fiction graphic novel “Red’s Planet” online. Dell’Aringa and Ogden were immediately taken by his wonderful style [...]

Posted on: Mar 4, 2010,  Section: Graphic Novels, Publishers, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments

Legend of Bill now in print from Th3rd World

David Reddick’s webcomic Legend of Bill has been published in a 48-page comic book and is available now from Th3rd World Publishing in both an Artist Edition and Regular Edition. The comic is also now a regular feature in Renaissance Magazine (bi-monthly) and Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine (monthly) in comics shops, gaming shops [...]

Posted on: Mar 4, 2010,  Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Brock Heasley’s Monsterplex wins Zuda competition

Brock Heasley of Super Fogeys fame won February’s Zuda competition for a feature he co-created entitled Monsterplex. The other two co-creators are David Schlotterback and Michael DeVito.
Brock talks about what it means to win on the Tall Tale Features blog:
This month has been a whirlwind of hard work and emotions for me and my family. [...]

Posted on: Mar 3, 2010,  Section: Awards, Contests, web comics, Comments: 5 Comments

Dallas Art News to start webcomic section in April

The Dallas Art News will be starting a webcomic section in April after recent post featuring webcomic art broke web traffic records for the site. Be warned, for now, they are “considering compensation.”
Here are some of the specifics for the Guest Webcomic Artist Program:
Each guest webcomic artist will product 4 to 5 web comics which [...]

Posted on: Feb 17, 2010,  Section: web comics, Comments: 10 Comments

Stephanie McMillan graphic novel becomes webcomic

Seven Stories Press has begun running a webcomic version of Stephanie McMillan’s graphic novel “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial” (co-created with Derrick Jensen). The comic updates Tuesdays and Thursdays in full color. A French version of the printed book is also available.
As an aside, Stephanie was [...]

Posted on: Feb 16, 2010,  Section: Alternative comics, Graphic Novels, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Brad Guigar celebrates 10 years of webcomics

Yesterday, Evil Inc. creator Brad Guigar celebrated 10 years of doing webcomics. His first foray was a strip called Greystone Inn which ran for five-and-a-half years between 2000 and 2005. In addition to his current strip, Evil Inc. he also produces Courting Disaster. He was nominated for an Eisner in 2007 for a comic entitled [...]

Posted on: Feb 15, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 10 Comments

Tom Racine and me opine about the iPad and comics

This week’s Tall Tale Features tackle’s the iPad’s impact on comics.
Hey, everyone else is talking about it, so why fight it? Tall Tale Radio takes on Steve Jobs and the iPad! Will it change the business of print as we know it? Will it impact cartoonists everywhere? Is it a glorified iPod? And most [...]

Posted on: Feb 10, 2010,  Section: Comic Books, Daily Cartoonist, Podcasts, Technology, web comics, Comments: 7 Comments

Penny Arcade honored with Ambassador Award

Penny Arcade webcomic creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik and business partner Robert Khoo have been honored with the Ambassador Award in the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. The award recognizes individuals who have “helped the game industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better game community from within, or by reaching [...]

Posted on: Feb 2, 2010,  Section: web comics, Comments: 6 Comments

Eddie Pitman launches webcomic graphic novel

Eddie Pitman has launched a webcomic graphic novel called Red’s Planet. I knew about the launch, but admit that I dropped the ball on any sort of deserving mention until Tom Richmond posted this review:
Eddie may have a long list of accomplishments but his first love has always been comics, and when he started doing [...]

Posted on: Feb 1, 2010,  Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments

News briefs for January 29, 2009

Comic Strips
» Ted Dawson posts some early Family Circus strip.
Editorial Cartooning
» Canadian editorial cartoonists are planning their annual convention in September.
Newspapers
» The Deseret News’ parent company is launching a Spanish-language paper in February. The paper will start out as a tri-weekly with a circulation goal of 25,000.
Television
» “A Charlie Brown Valentine Special” will air on [...]

Posted on: Jan 29, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Television, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Guy Gilchrist launches new daily panel

Guy Gilchrist, the cartoonist behind Nancy, has launched a new panel for the web called Today’s Dog. The new toon is available for free on his new website, Facebook, RSS and via Twitter. The topic of the ‘toon is funny things dogs do.
I am so, so happy about how much support the cartoon has received [...]

Posted on: Jan 26, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 7 Comments

Not looking to start another war…

Having worked as a web designer and developer for about a dozen years, I see it as the future (and hence dominant future of comics). That said, I have a special place in my heart for the tactile feel of newspaper and the comics that it delivers.

So excuse me while I promote what I consider [...]

Posted on: Jan 19, 2010,  Section: Newspaper industry, web comics, Comments: 48 Comments