From Mike Rhode comes news that Bob Artley has passed away at the age of 94. Professionally he was the editorial cartoonist at the Des Moines Tribune, Worthington Globe, and was an illustrator and commercial artist in Akron, OH. In 1952 through 1957 he was employed as an editorial cartoonist with the Des Moines Tribune. […]
Interesting idea being executed by Six Chix Stephanie Piro: I’ve said before how much I LOVE Halloween. We have a lot to celebrate with scary movies, Halloween cartoons and I’ll be doing a Halloween Cartoon Club on Monday at the library. This week I was invited by a cartoon group called the Trees and Hills […]
Brendan Bufford and Norm Feuti have posted another installment covering the road to syndication for Norm’s Gil strip. Today they cover the drawing and inking process. My other strip, RETAIL, is created the same way, with two exceptions. I use a computer font to create the lettering for RETAIL, and I use a halftone fill […]
Poynter reports that the release of the latest operating system (iOS 5) for Apple’s iPad and iPhone has caused a surge downloads for newspapers. The new OS comes with a new app called Newsstand where users can subscribe to magazines and newspapers. One of the examples cited was the NYTimes app which saw 189,000 new […]