Industry news for the professional cartoonist
RingTales and Metranome have partnered to release the first ever animated Dilbert and New Yorker “Cartoon a Day” integrated calendar for BlackBerry smart phones. The downloadable calendars combine the utility of a daily agenda with a daily animated New Yorker or Dilbert cartoons. The app also integrates with the native calendar application on the BlackBerry…
RingTales, the company co-founded by Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, has launched a new iPhone/iPod Touch app featuring their animated New Yorker cartoons. Unlike other cartoon iPhone apps where cartoons are viewed sequentially, The New Yorker Animated Cartoon iPhone App allows you to shake the phone to randomly show a new set of cartoon…
RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best Animated Video of 2008 for its animation of New Yorker cartoons. Those cartoons run on RingTales’ site, The New Yorker and as an iTunes podcast which has generated over 24 million views. In the category…
Paul Gilligan has announced that his feature Pooch Cafe is in works with RingTales to animate Pooch Cafe strips for distribution through the web, mobile phones. RingTales was co-founded by Michael Fry (Over the Hedge writer) with the objective of animating print comics. In my interview with Michael a year ago, he had mentioned that…
Michael Fry Last May, I told you that Michael Fry (the writer behind Over the Hedge), had started a company called RingTales along with Jim Cox (the executive co-producer for the Over the Hedge movie). Their objective was to create small animated shorts from existing print cartoons that can be distributed via mobile phones, blogs/web…
Michael Fry, “Over the Hedge” co-creator, along with film writer and producer Jim Cox have created an internet start-up called RingTales which focus on making animation shorts for mobile devises. The animations will be based on current comic strips.
Tom Racine’s latest podcast is up with Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry. I’ve wanted to talk to Michael Fry since…oh, I dunno…1995 when I first saw “Over the Hedge” in the NY Daily News and knew it was destined to be one of the greats. I love T. Lewis’ line work and character design,…
It’s going to be sensory overload for die-hard Pearls Before Swine fans now that animated versions of the strip start appearing on comics. com today. For anyone who’s ever wondered what the Crocs’ accent sounds like or how Pig withstands Rat’s physical punishment, they will have to “tune in” to find out. “Now others can…
Babelgum and RingTales have posted a series of interviews with notable cartoonists about their process and their comics as animations. The series is entitled, Cartoon Masters. Masters presented so far include: Bob Mankoff Drew Dernavich Isaac Eddy Mark Tatulli Michael Fry Paul Gilligan Richard Thompson Stephan Pastis Here’s a sample with Richard Thompson.
Not sure how long the RingTales people have been producing Pearls Before Swine animations, but since I haven’t mentioned it before here’s a sample. You can find more over on Babelgum.com.
I’m sure the RingTales people are kicking these out faster than I can report on them. Best to bookmark Babelgum website and check often. Here’s a few more from Mark Tatulli’s Lio and Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac.
Kudos to RingTales and Richard Thompson for two more Cul de Sac animations.
Brevity co-creators Rodd Perry and Guy Endore-Kaiser worked with RingTales to create a Google commissioned video to help people learn how to share videos through social media. Here it is:
T Lewis and Michael Fry’s Over the Hedge will be featured as a new animated web series on Babelgum.com. Babelgum.com already has an agreement to exclusively premiere new animated installments of Scott Adam’s Dilbert and the animated New Yorker Cartoons, which are produced by Michael’s company RingTales.
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac is the latest comic strip to be brought to life courtesy of Ringtales and Michael Jantze’s studio (Michael’s studio did the actual animation). According to Richard’s blog, the voice talent for the alice character was provided by Colette Jantze. One of the spoilers for most of the comic strip to…