The Daily Cartoonist

IDW to release Bone Artist Edition; Smith starts webcomic

IDW will release a new Artist Edition collection for Jeff Smith’s Bone series. No date is set yet, but it will be 144 pages and printed at the size of Jeff’s original art (12×7). Also Jeff announced that he’s starting a webcomic set in prehistoric times called, “Tüki Save the Humans”. No launch date on [...]

Posted on: Apr 3, 2013,  Section: Books, Graphic Novels, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

NCS announces 2012 division awards

The National Cartoonist Society has announced this year’s division award nominees. The winners will be announced during their annual Reuben Awards dinner in Pittsburgh, PA. Here are the nominees: Television Animation Todd Kauffman, Executive Producer, “Sidekick” Alberto Mielgo, Production Design, “Tron: Uprising” Rich Webber, Director, Aardman Animation Studios, “DC Nation” Feature Animation Rich Moore, Director, [...]

Posted on: Mar 26, 2013,  Section: Animation, Comic Books, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Graphic Novels, Greeting Cards, Illustration, National Cartoonist Society, Reuben, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment

Four webcomics have raised over $1 million on Kickstarter

Over on Fleen, Gary Tyrrell looks at the four webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Machine of Death, Schlock Mercenary and Dresden Codak) who have raised a combined $1.7 million on Kickstarter.

Posted on: Mar 19, 2013,  Section: web comics, Comments: 7 Comments

PBS Video: The Rise of Webcomics

Posted on: Mar 18, 2013,  Section: web comics, Comments: 1 Comment

ComiXology to sell self-published comics

An interesting move by ComiXology to become more of a platform, like Apple’s iBook Store and Amazon eBook store. Today, the digital comic book startup is launching ComiXology Submit, a submission portal for comic book creators who want to sell their self-published work in ComiXology’s digital store. If successful, the Submit portal could usher in [...]

Posted on: Mar 12, 2013,  Section: Cartoons, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments

Scott Stantis talks web comics

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist and Prickly City creator Scott Stantis has been doing web casts and talking to other cartoonists. In this latest one, he talks to Scott Meyers, creator of the web comic Basic Instructions.

Posted on: Mar 6, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments

Achewood the animated TV show?

Wired.com is reporting that Chris Onstad’s Achewood is shopping the webcomic as a TV animated show to networks. Although some familiar plots from the webcomic would make their way into the small-screen adaptation, Onstad says the bulk of the content potentially slated for the cartoon format will be all-new. Currently, the creator is looking at [...]

Posted on: Mar 1, 2013,  Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Penny Arcade debuts first episode of Strip Search

Earlier last year, the Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Kho, president of operations and business development, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to eliminate ads from their website. One of the stretch goals was to create a contest to find a worthy up-and-coming cartoonist. The contest, which was already [...]

Posted on: Mar 1, 2013,  Section: web comics, Comments: 3 Comments

Garry Trudeau urges ‘stick with print’; webcartoonists react

Saturday’s Doonesbury attempted at humor at the current state of newspapers by asking “what happens to comics if newspapers go away?” The strip left the 2nd and 3rd panel blank with the characters stating, “stick with print, folks. This doesn’t have to happen” in the last panel. You can read reader reaction on Doonesbury’s site. [...]

Posted on: Feb 5, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 37 Comments

Penny Arcade’s Strip Search to debut next month

Earlier last year, the Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Kho, president of operations and business development, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to eliminate ads from their website. One of the stretch goals was to create a strip search contest to find a worthy up-and-coming cartoonist. The contest, which [...]

Posted on: Jan 22, 2013,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 3 Comments

Axe Cop animated series to debut in July

Axe Cop, the webcomic written by brothers Malachai Nicolle (age 5 when the webcomic was launched) and Ethan Nicolle (age 28 when launched) will debut on Fox’s Adult Swim-style Saturday-night on July 27. This is a Halloween themed teaser released last fall.

Posted on: Jan 10, 2013,  Section: Animation, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment

NCS expands criteria for webcomics award

The National Cartoonists Society has expanded the criteria for the new Online Comics Division Award that was introduced last year. The change splits the award into two categories – long form (think online comic books or graphic novels) and short form comics (think comic strips, panels). As they did last year, a panel will evaluate [...]

Posted on: Jan 3, 2013,  Section: web comics, Comments: 5 Comments

Drew Litton drawing Too Many Christmas Cookies

Drew Litton is drawing a 24 part comic entitled “Too Many Christmas Cookies”. He’s already at part 7. Ends on Christmas.

Posted on: Dec 12, 2012,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments

Tom Gammill’s The Doozies hits four year anniversary

Tom Gammill’s The Doozies will mark it’s fourth year on GoComics.com on December 1. Tom is a TV comedy writer (credits include some of the biggest shows on TV: “Seinfeld”, “The Simpsons”) and the creator of the “Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill” series. Congratulations, Tom.

Posted on: Nov 28, 2012,  Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 11 Comments

The Oatmeal sued for trademark infringement

The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman is being sued again. From Wired (UK): The comic teamed up with the company that owns the Papyrus chain of card and gift shops, Recycled Greetings, to sell paper greeting cards of his web comics via the The Oatmeal’s web store, along with other novelty items. But that caught the attention [...]

Posted on: Nov 21, 2012,  Section: Greeting Cards, Legal, web comics, Comments: 11 Comments