Online ad revenue surpasses broadcast revenue for first time
Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that for the first time ever, online advertising has surpassed broadcast advertising. Also of import: for…
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Brian Fies launches “The Last Mechanical Monster” webcomic
While publishing my last post about Brian Fies’s discovery of a Kids say the Darndest Thing book illustrated by Charles…
NCS announces 2013 Divisional Nominees
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the division awards for the 68th Annual NCS Reuben Awards. Looking through the different…
Check out the CAPS auction to benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai
Last week the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) launched an auction to benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai. The money raised…
Patreon growing as crowd-funding platform of choice for creators
Over at Robot6, Corey Blake crunches numbers of crowd-funding platforms. Of interest is the rapid rise of Patreon for comic…
Jeff Smith launches Tuki webcomic
Bone creator Jeff Smith has been teasing the release of a new webcomic for several months now. Yesterday the webcomic…
Penny Arcade turns 15
The webcomic Penny Arcade turns 15 on the 18th of this month. We?ve done a lot in the last 15…
Slate announces Cartoonist Studio contest for graphic novel and webcomic
For the second time, Slate is holding a contest for best graphic novel and webcomic. Last year’s winners were Chris…
Asteroid officially named after xkcd cartoonist Randall Monroe
You can have a star named after you for $30, but if you want an astroid named after you, it…
Universal Uclick to launch Wumo to over 100 papers
I’ve been a long-time fan of the Danish webcomic Wulffmorganthaler by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, so I was excited…
Jeff Smith spills beans on new webcomic
Bone and RASL creator Jeff Smith described his webcomic that will debut before Thanksgiving: Two million years ago was the…
Interviewed: R. Stevens and his new Diesel Sweeties book collections
Comic Book Resources interviews Diesel Sweeties creator R. Stevens about his strip and his latest themed book collections. This year,…
Successful cartooning in the digital world
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary was one of the fine speakers at this year’s AAEC convention. In…
Diesel Sweeties designs cancer patient sleeves
Great news about Diesel Sweeties’ R. Stevens. From Boing Boing To help prevent lymphedema or control the swelling if it…
IDW to release Bone Artist Edition; Smith starts webcomic
IDW will release a new Artist Edition collection for Jeff Smith’s Bone series. No date is set yet, but it…