Editorial Cartoonist Michael de Adder is bailing on Patreon and putting all his efforts into Substack. Michael explains: I started Patreon and Substack not knowing anything about either. My wish was to do both. But Substack took off and the number of paid subscribers on Patreon is not sustainable. I would like to put all […]
After 16 years, close to half his young life, Jason Chatfield got the news he had dreaded: It was from Dave Braithwaite, Head of Editorial Operations at Fairfax Media. He told me in no uncertain terms that it was the end of the road for the comic strip I’d been writing and drawing every day. This […]
Between Friends cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy has created a Substack and the inaugural newsletter is a tour of her studio workplace which has a drawing table rather than a tablet for creating her comic strip. Next to my computer station is my drawing board…where I spend most of my time. Yes, I work traditionally. Yes, I […]
The John Hart Studio produces three comic strips: B.C., Wizard of Id, and Dogs of C-Kennel, plus they are in charge of re-presenting the oldies of Back to B.C. and Wizard of Id Classics, so you can see they are a busy bunch. But they have found time to issue a new newsletter after a […]
Yesterday’s notice of Speedy Zawistowski‘s passing got me searching. I did find a couple references to Speedy in the Google Books preview of What Are You Nuts?, Gag Recap editor Bill Keough‘s collection of some of his columns from that trade publication. For instance Bill recounts how he and Speedy first met. Later […]
Cartoonist Tom Richmond has decided to change the emphasis of his online presence. He broke the news on his Tom’s Mad Blog last week: This blog used to get average of 3.5K unique visitors per day at its peak in 2008. Today a really good day is less than 1K. It has become obvious to […]