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Success in Comics seminar heads to east coast
Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg’s Success in Comics seminar is heading to the east coast. The last two events were in Las Vegas. The duo is taking the show to Annapolis, MD February 16-17th. The line up looks top notch too. Chad Carpenter – Third time speaker, creator of Tundra the most widely self-syndicated strips [...]
Posted on: Nov 14, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Speaking Engagements, web comics, Comments: 15 Comments
Dave Kellett creates own custom drawing table
Sheldon creator Dave Kellett took on the task of building a custom standing drafting table for himself after dealing with repetitive posture problems. Okay – so he designed it and his brother (a home builder) did the actual carpentry. The result is gorgeous. A lot of attention to detail. He has more photos of the [...]
Posted on: Oct 22, 2012, Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 11 Comments
The Oatmeal’s new book: How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
The latest book by Matthew Inman AKA “The Oatmeal”:
Posted on: Oct 10, 2012, Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
Webcomic raises $700k+ in 32 hours
Another webcomic is raising a mass amount of money through Kickstarter. Homestruck is a webcomic in the format of a text-based adventure game that requires readers to click through each page to advance the story-line. According to Gary Tyrell over at Fleen, he calculates that it took Homestruck creator Andew Hussie about 32 hours to [...]
Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Matthew Inman helps raise $1 million+ for Tesla museum
The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman is fundraising again. This time he’s thrown his weight behind an effort to purchase Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory and turn it into a museum. Here’s how The Christian Science Monitor describes how Matthew got involved: Then this summer Alcorn learned that Matthew Inman, a cartoonist who runs theoatmeal.com, posted a tribute [...]
Posted on: Aug 27, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Todd Clark, T Lewis launch new webcomic
Todd Clark, creator of Lola and T Lewis co-creator of Over the Hedge, have launched a new webcomic on GoComics.com. The new feature, Mr. Gigi and the Squid isn’t exactly new. The two cartoonists developed the characters for a TV pitch a couple of years back and decided to continue development of the feature as [...]
Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 20 Comments
Penny Arcade details webcomic search contest
Last week I mentioned that the Penny Arcade gentlemen, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, launched a Kickstarter project to raise $1 million to replace all advertising on their website. In four days, they raised over $250,000. At various milestones of fundraising, the duo will be “unlocking” certain features are opened. One of which is a [...]
Posted on: Jul 26, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 22 Comments
XKCD takes on hypothetical questions of physics
Randall Munroe’s XKCD is a nerd’s webcomic. Randall answering hypothetical questions about physics is taking nerdom to the highest levels – with comics. Something tells me Randall wasn’t the cartoonist that sat at the back of the glass drawing to impress the girls. Here’s the first three questions (and snippet of an answer): What would [...]
Posted on: Jul 20, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Penny Arcade using Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million
The Penny Arcade gentlemen, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, are using Kickstarter to take their site ad-free. According to their promotion video, to get rid of all the ads will require them to raise $1 million. They’ve set up a milestone chart with levels of support equating to ads being removed and new features being [...]
Posted on: Jul 18, 2012, Section: Fund Raisers, web comics, Comments: 19 Comments
Photo: The Oatmeal makes good on promise to photograph money
Matthew Inman (AKA The Oatmeal) made good on his promise to photograph the $20,000 (plus the other $200,000 raised) and send it to FunkyJunk attorney Charles Carreon (see above). But that’s not the only photo he took of the stacks and stacks of money. Check out his blog for the rest.
Posted on: Jul 16, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Charles Carreon drops lawsuit against The Oatmeal, calls it ‘mission accomplished’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced that Charles Carreon, the former FunnyJunk attorney who sued The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman, has dropped the case against Matthew, the charities and the John Does. “Matthew Inman spoke out against Carreon’s threat of a frivolous lawsuit, in a very popular and very public way,” said EFF Senior [...]
Posted on: Jul 5, 2012, Section: Legal, web comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Did Seth MacFarlane plagiarize Imagine This?
Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine noticed several similarities between scenes in the trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s new movie Ted and Lucas Turnbloom’s webcomic Imagine This. Tom created a side-by-side comparison of some of the images from the trailer with Imagine This. You can see some similarities. Click for larger view But the question boils [...]
Posted on: Jun 28, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 37 Comments
The Oatmeal fundraiser takes in $220k
The final tally of Matthew Inman’s fundraiser for National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society is $220,024 – 11 times more than the $20,000 he hoped to raise in response to a legal defamation threat by FunnyJunk.com. Over 14,000 individuals donated money to the campaign. On the legal front, after being sued by Charles [...]
Posted on: Jun 26, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
The case against The Oatmeal; lawyers speak out against Carreon
Casey Johnston (writing on ArsTechnica) has one of the best plain english pieces on why Funky Junk attorney Charles Carreon has named Indiegogo, National Wildlife Federation and to the American Cancer Society in his suit against Matthew Inman. The charges against Inman’s fundraising may be the most serious, but they’re also the oddest. Carreon says [...]
Posted on: Jun 19, 2012, Section: Legal, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
What will the new Microsoft Surface do for comic creators?
One of the criticism of the iPad when launched was that it was a device only for consuming content and not creating it. Yesterday Microsoft stepped into the tablet market announcing Microsoft Surface. The new tablet will be running the yet-to-launch Windows 8 OS and will be a full PC experience for its users. Where [...]
Posted on: Jun 19, 2012, Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
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