Adobe announced changes to their upgrade policy stating that only users of the latest version can upgrade to the next release at a discounted price, all other previous versions will need to pay full retail price to get the latest offerings. If you upgrade by the end of this year, you can avoid the full […]
The Vancouver Province sports cartoonist Bob Krieger announced he’s drawn his last cartoon for the paper but will be reassigned to work on the web desk along with editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy. Bob tells me the paper is short staffed so both he and Dan were reassigned as “the best way to manage resources.” This […]
Interesting read from The New York Times about the push back Amazon is getting from brick and mortar book stores and other retailers: Amazon inspires anxiety just about everywhere, but its publishing arm is getting pushback from all sorts of booksellers, who are scorning the imprint’s most prominent title, Timothy Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Chef.” That […]
Stan Lynde, creator of Rick O’Shay and Latigo is leaving Montana for Equador. The Montana Standard profiles Stan’s career in comics and his ties to the Big Sky Country. Lynde was turned down by 12 of the big cartoon syndicates, but number 13 was his big break. He met Maurice “Moe” Reilly, vice president of […]
From GoComics: Steve McGarry, creator of Biographic and TrivQuiz on GoComics, now brings us Badlands! About the Strip: Having debuted in 1988 in the short-lived British daily, The Post, Steve McGarry’s western spoof strip “Badlands” was snapped up the following year by The Sun, Britain’s best-selling newspaper. The silly and saucy antics of Marshal Mask […]
Next week’s Barney Google And Snuffy Smith will feature the rarely appearing title namesake character Barney Google. Barney Google was one of the original characters of the strip, but as the Snuffy Smith family gained popularity, Barney Google’s appearances faded. John Rose, current cartoonist for the strip, explained in an interview with King Features: Q: […]
Andrews McMeel knows how to print a really nice collection. “BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2” is as the title alludes the first 20 years of the comic strip Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. The book is well bound and designed. But when in comes to books, it’s what is inside […]