Industry news for the professional cartoonist
ComicsDC Mike Rhode notes that Andrews McMeel has posted animations of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac and Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater on YouTube. I also notice that they have a Mark Tatulli Lio animation as well. The animation is reportedly done by RingTales who does all the New Yorker and Dilbert animations. UPDATE: Received notice…
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help…
RingTales has signed an exclusive agreement with United Media to produce and distribute daily animated versions of Scott Adams’ Dilbert. The agreement covers future strip as well as over 7,000 printed versions of the strip. The first animations have been on Dilbert.com and MSN, but starting today, you can see the animates on YouTube and…
Dilbert creator Scott Adams has announced that Dilbert.com has relaunched with a new design and a host of new features. Some of the features include allowing registered users the ability to rewrite the punch-lines and email them to friends. Readers can vote on the best submitted rewritten gags. The site has more animation provided by…
2007 was to be a year of great shake ups. Bill Amend announced at the end of 2006 that his strip Fox Trot was going to Sunday only and Lynn Johnston had maintained for years that she was retiring For Better For Worse when her contract was up in the fall. But instead 2007 might…