New York Times to begin charging access
Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, has announced that starting next year they will begin charging for “frequent” access to their website.
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers [...]
Posted on: Jan 20, 2010, Section: Newspaper industry, Web Sites, Comments: 3 Comments
News Corp to begin charging for online access
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that within the next 12 months, it will begin to require a fee for online access of it’s websites.
The strategy to extract fees from online readers, which is still lacking in many details, has more than a little bit of a “damn the torpedoes” mentality to it, but [...]
Posted on: Aug 7, 2009, Section: Newspaper industry, Web Sites, Comments: 15 Comments
King Features launches new “Captionary” feature
King Features Syndicate is launching a new interactive feature called “Captionary” for it’s Comics Kingdom product. The new feature allows readers to write the captions of cartoons drawn by Dan Piraro, Mike Peters, Hilary Price, Vic Lee and Rina Piccolo.
“In the same way people are attracted to The New Yorker CaptionIt contests, news sites [...]
Posted on: Jun 26, 2009, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Syndicates, Web Sites, Comments: 6 Comments
Creators launches revenue sharing comic feature
Creators Syndicate is launching a new comic service called “RevUp” for online newspapers. The comics are embedded on the paper’s web site with an ad supplied by Creators. The paper keeps any advertising revenue off that page minus the one ad served up by Creators.
The service also includes social features such as ratings, [...]
Posted on: Feb 5, 2009, Section: Creators, Web Sites, Comments: 3 Comments
Two new features added to Gocomics
Two outstanding Sherpa strips, Steve Skelton’s 2 Cows and a Chicken and Jonathan Lemon’s “Rabbits Against Magic“, will be appearing on Gocomics.com. You can also follow them on their own web sites here and here.
Posted on: Feb 3, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Web Sites, web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Hilary Price launches new Rhymes with Orange site
Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price has launched a new web site to showcase her comic feature. She told Dave Astor at E&P, “it will make it 10 times easier for me to make additions, post favorites, and maybe even blog a little.”
On a Hilary-related-note, she’ll be at the The Cartoon Art Museum in San [...]
Posted on: Oct 23, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Speaking Engagements, Web Sites, Comments: 0 Comments
Bill Griffith talks about online Zippy business
Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith was interviewed by the Hartford Courant about the online business side of his comic strip. According to the article, the sales of Zippy memorabilia and accessories on zippythepinhead.com has grown from one third to half of his income. The article also talks about some of the products and services [...]
Posted on: Oct 2, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Web Sites, Comments: 0 Comments
John Hart studios launches new web site
John Hart Studios has rolled out a new web site that features the daily B.C. and Wizard of Id comic strips along with a blog, character write-ups, and information about the current cartoonists working on the two strips, plus bios of the creators, Johnny Hart and Brant Parker.
Posted on: Sep 25, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Web Sites, Comments: 2 Comments
New Perry Bible Fellowship book announced
A new Perry Bible Fellowship collection is due out in November. The new book is entitled The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack and features an introduction written by Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody. The book will include a complete run of PBF including the strips that came after Nicholas Gurewitch, previous collection “The Trials of Colonel [...]
Posted on: Jul 16, 2008, Section: Books, Web Sites, Comments: 5 Comments
New websites for KAL, Six Chix, Meehan
A few new web sites have launched in the last couple of weeks.
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has added a blog to his web site that will feature his sketches, roughs and commentary for his cartoons and animation.
The Six Chix cartoonist now have a home on the web. The site offers a collection of Six Chix cartoons [...]
Posted on: May 29, 2008, Section: Blogs, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Web Sites, Comments: 1 Comment
ComicPress releases latest upgrade to Wordpress
For those webcomickers or cartoonists looking for an easy way to post your comics daily to your website, the ComicsPress theme for Wordpress has been upgraded to version 2.5. The new release offers five different page layouts to accommodate several different types of comics and a new Comicpress Manager has been released to help [...]
Posted on: May 20, 2008, Section: Web Sites, web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
King Features launches comic web application
King Features has released a new embed-able comic application called Comics Kingdom that allows any newspaper to deploy a comic page easily. The application allows users to view a 30 day archive of King’s comics, ability to rate and comment on a comic, zoom in for a larger view, and to add the page to [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2008, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Web Sites, Comments: 5 Comments
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