Industry news for the professional cartoonist
In a unusual offer, Ted Rall has announced on his blog that he will be auctioning off all the original artwork (99 full comic pages) of his upcoming book “Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East.”The auction runs now through July 22 and has a minimum bid of $4,500 (or $10,000 if the auction runs after July 22. Visit his web site for more information.
It will include the complete collection of Katrina cartoons and my Pulitzer portfolio from this year, plus lots of old favorites…. The book should be out sometime in September.If there are any cartoons you’d like to see, let me know.
After six months of battling it out in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mark Pett‘s Lucky Cow spot has been made permanent. Back in January, the Post-Dispatch informed readers that it was going to test four new features and ask for feedback on which one should stay. The other features (and in the order of their popularity after Lucky Cow are: Brevity, Candorville, and Brewster Rockit.