The Daily Cartoonist

13th Kevin & Kell collection to be released

Moonbase Press has announced that it will be releasing the thirteenth collection of cartoonist Bill Holbrook’s webcomic “Kevin & Kell” on June 26, 2008.
The book, which features the strips from 2006, follows the Dewclaws’ extended family through a variety of adventures and changes in their lives. First, Kevin runs for school board [...]

Posted on: May 9, 2008,  Section: Books, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Does a syndicate matter in today’s world?

Fleen has posted the first an interview with webcomic creator and author Dave Kellett on the importance and relevance of print syndication in today’s comic marketplace compared to going it alone in webcomics. Dave shares his experience as a professional webcomicker and as one having a syndicate contract to run his feature Sheldon on [...]

Posted on: May 8, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, Syndicates, web comics, Comments: 12 Comments

Pinkerton picks up Colorado college paper

Mike Witmer’s webcomic Pinkerton that runs on gocomics.com has been picked up by The Clarion, the University Of Denver’s campus newspaper.

Posted on: May 7, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 9 Comments

Scott Kurtz’s PVP celebrates 10 year anniversary

Yesterday Scott Kurtz’s PVP, one of the first successful webcomics, has turned 10 years old.
Regarding the anniversary Scott wrote on his blog:
I never expected PvP to take me here. This wasn’t planned. It was just a temporary gig. It wasn’t supposed to be the idea that took me anywhere. When I posted that first [...]

Posted on: May 5, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments

Webcomics to be made into TV show pilot, movie

With their online success, Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza are branching out their two webcomic features into television and movie deals.
Their feature, Least I Could Do about a “sex-obsessed twenty-something male character who loves science fiction and fantasy,” is being developed for a TV pilot for Canada’s Teletoon network. Least I Could Do was [...]

Posted on: May 2, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments

Penny Arcade, PVP doing live online shows

Webcomics creators Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade) and Scott Kurtz (Player Vs. Player) have both begun to stream live videos of them creating their cartoons according to NewTeeVee.com.
Mike reports that his first video has been viewed 70,000 times and each “livecast” has about 1,000 visitors. Scott ays that his numbers are about half that for [...]

Posted on: Apr 24, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments

News Briefs for April 16, 2008

» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated.
» The “Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” exhibit currently running at the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has been extended until May 18th.
» Mike Witmer, who does the Pinkerton webcomic on gocomics.com has signed a publishing contract with [...]

Posted on: Apr 16, 2008,  Section: Books, Comic history, Speaking Engagements, web comics, Comments: 11 Comments

Brooke McEldowney releases Midsummer Nights Dream

9 Chickweed Lane cartoonist Brooke McEldowney will be releasing a new book this month entitled “Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The book, based on his webcomic Pibgorn and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream is 176 pages and the forward was written by Alan Dean Foster.
During its original appearance online the cause of simultaneous [...]

Posted on: Apr 16, 2008,  Section: Books, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment

Bleeker picks up several online newspapers

Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog has been picked up by several online comic pages according to a post on Jonathan’s blog. Bleeker started out on Comics Sherpa and moved up to goComics in May of last year. It has also been optioned for TV Radical Sheep Productions in Canada.
Here’s a list of online [...]

Posted on: Apr 8, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments

Barkeater Lake Returns As Daily Webcomic

Corey Pandolph tells me that his comic Barkeater Lake is going back to a daily schedule on his web site.
He writes:
I figured out that there are 8 hours in my day that have been wasted on sleep. By adding these hours to my work schedule, I’m now able to write and draw four different comics [...]

Posted on: Apr 7, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment

Brad Guigar producing 3rd graphic novel of Evil Inc.

Brad Guigar, one of the authors of How to Make Webcomics, is producing his third collection of his webcomic Evil Inc.. The book is entitled “Evil Inc Annual Report vol. 3″ and ships late May.
Describing his book, he writes:
This is the third installment of the series of graphic novels based on the daily comic strip, [...]

Posted on: Apr 4, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Penny Arcade announces new site for independent games

Webcomic powerhouse Penny Arcade has announced that they have partnered with Hothead Games to create a new website called “Greenhouse” that will focus on selling downloadable independent games for PC, Mac, and Linux. The first game to be released will be “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One”, a role playing game featuring Penny [...]

Posted on: Apr 3, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Nemu*Nemu celebrates 2nd year anniversary with 2nd volume book

Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga are celebrating their second year with their webcomic Nemu*Nemu with the release of their second volume collection of their feature. Nemu*Nemu is Manga style comic with two stuffed toy puppies and two young girls.
“A webcomic is much different from syndication because it goes everywhere and anywhere the Internet goes, as [...]

Posted on: Apr 1, 2008,  Section: Books, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Conference call set up to talk about web comics (UPDATED)

For those who may have dropped out of the conversation regarding the web comics financial model (and what print/syndicated cartoonists can be learn from it), Scott has set up a call-in conference call for Friday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Here’s the details taken from the comment thread:

Title: Cartoonist Meeting
Episode Notes: re: the Daily Cartoonist thread
Start [...]

Posted on: Mar 27, 2008,  Section: web comics, Comments: 26 Comments

Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, others debate webcomic impact on cartooning

Editorial cartoonist and United Media’s Acquisition and Development Editor Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, creator of online and print comic Diesel Sweeties, along with web cartoonist Dean Haspiel, Raina Telgemeier, Collen Venable were at the first Graphic Novel Symposium held on March 15th to discuss the impact and viability of webcomics in the cartooning industry.
The item [...]

Posted on: Mar 25, 2008,  Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, web comics, Comments: 267 Comments