For all those editorial cartoonists who are now cramming to learn Flash for better Pulitzer positioning next year may want to check out this little flash animation below as a fun little diversion. Enjoy. Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART UPDATE: Aaron Taylor writes in to point us to part two of the Animator […]
Ted Slampyak, the artist behind Little Orphan Annie, has posted a review of his drawing process. The system I show won’t work for everyone. It may not even work for anyone, except that it works for me. Other comics artists use other systems — maybe some of them will comment here on theirs — but […]
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will open up the ToonSeum Gallery this October that will feature exhibits of cartoon art from comic books, comic strips, illustrations, editorial cartooning and animation. The gallery’s first exhibit is entitled “From Illustration to Animation: Picture Books Come Alive Through the Art of Animation” and opens up in October of […]
I missed this one. Matt Janz, creator of Out of the Gene Pool was last week’s Washington Post’s Meet the Comics Pages online chat guest. The transcript is still available online.
From Universal Press Syndicate comes news that GoComics will be releasing the first mobile phone comic book on August 20th. The comic entitled, “Thunder Road” will be delivered as a slideshow to the phone. “Thunder Road” is created by Sean Demory and drawn by Steven Sanders and is a “post-apocalyptic, diesel punk action adventure” – […]
From Mike Rhode comes news that the Washington Examiner has dropped all of their comics and replaced them with puzzles. Over the years, they went from two full pages, to one half page and now to none. They invite comments on their website. Perhaps they’ll take a cue from the L.A. Post-Telegram as well as […]
Mark Tatulli’s wordless comic feature Lio is an easy sell in Asia. According to a press release from Universal Press Syndicate, Lio can be found in every major English language newspaper in Asia including the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, the Straits Time in Singapore, the New Straits Time in Malaysia and the […]
Here’s an interesting story from The Register-Guard (Eugene OR) about 15 year-old Olivia Clingman-White who is Jan Eliot’s assistant on the Stone Soup comic. Olivia has been working with Jan for the last five years and is responsible for coloring the comic in Photoshop. She’s also been a source of inspiration for some of story […]