My thanks to Keith Brown for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist this week. Keith is the creator of the webcomic Wages of Sin. The strip was a 2013 winner in Cartoonist Studio “Best Strip” contest. Keith’s strip is updated frequently on Facebook. Make sure you “Like” his page to get the strip on your wall each […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith has been teasing the release of a new webcomic for several months now. Yesterday the webcomic went live. Jeff Smith explores the ice age in this all new mythological fiction of the first human to leave Africa. With the completion of his science fiction noir thriller RASL, Jeff Smith returns to […]
Just a reminder if you’ve not yet donated or even if you have, any new donors this week or if any of the previous donors increase their donation by $10, I’ll send you the eBook I’m creating containing my best cartoons. Most of you probably haven’t seen my work. Here’s a sample of my cartoons. […]
From Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir: Any “Calvin and Hobbes” fan will enjoy watching Schroeder’s film, which is more a love letter to the strip and its publicity-shy creator than anything else. “Dear Mr. Watterson” is a work of charming reportorial energy, in which Schroeder (who wrote, directed and edited the movie) interviews many prominent fans and […]
A friendly reminder – today at noon (Mountain standard time), I will be creating a perk for an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe for a donation of $1,000 to my Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. If $1000 is too steep for you, you can gamble and wait a day. If nobody claims it, I’ll repost it […]
This year’s Fund The Daily Cartoonist has been amazing. The support from those donating money to the campaign for a better The Daily Cartoonist has been overwhelming. I’ve had terrific support from generous individuals and companies that have offered their original artwork, books, sketches and products to be given away as incentives and perks. It’s […]
The webcomic Penny Arcade turns 15 on the 18th of this month. We?ve done a lot in the last 15 years. We were among the first people to create webcomics. We?ve used the strip to tear down and applaud countless games. We accidentally sold the rights to the comic and then got them back. We […]
Yesterday I received a very large shipment of books and calendars from Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Publishing. They’ve provide a number of items for the fundTDC campaign I’m running on Indiegogo. Starting today, I’ve listed new perks at the $25 level. The Argyle Sweater 2014 Day to Day Calendar, Scott Hilburn The Mighty Alice, Richard Thompson […]
Two days into my Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign, you’ve helped me raise $1,585 – or about 1/3 of the goal. That tells me a few things: 1. I have great friends and readers 2. Maybe I should have set my funding goals higher 3. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m fortunate […]
For the second time, Slate is holding a contest for best graphic novel and webcomic. Last year’s winners were Chris Ware and Noelle Stevenson. The prize is $1,000 each and this year a sponsor, Copic, is kicking in $250 of art supplies. The judging will be done by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, faculty […]
You can have a star named after you for $30, but if you want an astroid named after you, it has to be approved by the International Astronomical Union. xkcd webcomic creator Randall Monroe’s name was nominated and approved for an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter. From Robot6: “The first thing I did […]
I’ve been a long-time fan of the Danish webcomic Wulffmorganthaler by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, so I was excited to learn it was being launched as a syndicated comic here in the US under the title Wumo. The feature has been on the web since 2002 and runs in several papers in Northern Europe. […]
Comic Book Resources interviews Diesel Sweeties creator R. Stevens about his strip and his latest themed book collections. This year, Stevens has teamed with Oni Press to begin releasing “Diesel Sweeties” in book form. The first volume, on sale now, is “Diesel Sweeties: I’m a Rocker, I Rock Out.” The book, to quote the description, […]
GoComics announced they’ve added a new feature called Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than. Zen Pencils is described as a “comic that takes inspirational and famous quotes and adapts them into cartoon stories. From icons like Einstein, Gandhi and Twain to modern-day philosophers, comedians and writers – their words are turned into heartwarming stories”.
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary was one of the fine speakers at this year’s AAEC convention. In my introduction to Howard’s presentation I explained that this blog, when launched in 2005, was meant to be a personal exploration of where cartooning (primarily comic strips and editorial cartooning) was going with the growth […]