A little bit more on new media – UPDATE
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATE: Joey Manley happens to have added a very long list of articles on webcomics and digital comics content right here. Great resource for anyone thinking about these things. UPDATE 2: Now Tom Spurgeon has weighed in with a long post, but here’s the money quote for us anyway: * I can’t for [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Local paper profiles cartooner: Brian Ralph sits at a table in the sun outside Donna’s in Baltimore’s Charles Village and fidgets with his paper coffee cup. The 33-year-old has messy hair, and wears a short sleeve shirt and blue jeans. His hand with the solid silver wedding ring rests on a yellow [...]
Continue ReadingPULP SECRET gives away comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe PULP SECRET REPORT is one of those internet/Tv show’s covering pop culture and the comics, but it’s actually pretty entertaining. Exec producer David P. Levin is spicing up the grew by giving away his comic book collection on the show: A collector for over forty years, Levin is now the [...]
Continue ReadingAnimated New Yorker cartoons on iTunes?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHere’s a somewhat epochal story we’ve managed to miss until now: Downloadable animated New Yorker cartoons on iTunes. Everyone knows that downloadable ‘toons to iPods and Wiis and cell phones and what not are the future, but even so it’s a little surprising to see the venerable New Yorker jumping [...]
Continue ReadingELEPHANTMEN go to mobile phones
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, crap, now they can squeeze a whole elephantman into a mobile phone! How do they do that? Oh it’s a COMIC BOOK by Richard Starkings and Moritat. In fact, interested parties might want to check out the Gocomics website and see what all they are distributing–the march of progress. uclick [...]
Continue ReadingPublisher launches manga mag for phones
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAlthough the headline says Publisher to launch Japan’s first monthly online manga magazine is sounds a bit misleading, because the magazine is actually the first (orone of the first) for mobile phones: Publisher Shinchosha will soon launch what it calls the country’s first digital subscription magazine, an online comic regularly transmitted to [...]
Continue ReadingLinkie winkins from all over
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ The AP is running a nice profile of the webcomics collective Act-i-vate: Artists in the year-old, invitation-only collective upload a new comic or installment to their graphic novels each week, making the content on the daily anthology highly diverse. ACT-I-VATE members draw upon a host of influences including Japanese comic book [...]
Continue ReadingIs this our future?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComiPress looks at an article that tracks the decline of the Japanese manga market: The report says that tankoubon sales have been decreasing for the past two years, and that manga magazine sales have been decreasing 11 years in a row. The decline of manga magazine sales was especially noticeable, which indicates [...]
Continue ReadingPulp Secret debuts
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPulp Secret is a little webcast about comics. It calls itself a “network” but that’s a little ambitious as of yet. However the first episode does cover some nice territory. We didn’t have time to actually watch it yet, but we plan to. Premiere episode – 3/7/07: meet Justin, Pete and Alex [...]
Continue ReadingWilliam Shatner is a jerk, but he's hilarious
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFans of the inimitable Shatner will enjoy this clip of him doing a voiceover recording and then putting a clueless producer in his place, as Robin Quivers and Howard Stern guffaw in glee. As Robin and Howard point out, Shatner is being a total dick, and yet he’s kind of within [...]
Continue ReadingPodcast update: Ventures and Veitch
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Sound of Young America interviews VENTURE BROTHERS creator Jackson Publick for this podcast. (Thanks to Ian Brill for the link.) Speaking of The Venture Bros, this weekend on Saturday at 4:30 at the NYCC (that AGAIN?) there will be a Venture Bros. spotlight with Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, James Urbaniak (Rusty [...]
Continue ReadingRebellion acquires Clickwheel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA year or two ago, some noise was being made by Clickwheel, a UK venture which hoped to develop comics content directly for iPods, presumably in a downloadable form via iTunes. Everyone agreed it was a good idea, but at least over stateside, it never became much more than a rumbling. [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: The Podcaster is chosen
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It seems that “sexy” Comic Foundry founder Tim Leong has won the New York Comic-con’s Podcasting contest! Can you SAY…RINGER? I mean, come on! Tim already set YouTube ablaze in his famous “weeping wizard” outing. You can check out the winning entry at the above link, or see Tim try to [...]
Continue ReadingWhy 70s movies were a good thing
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This may well be the funniest flyer we’ve ever seen: ISR celebrates Valentine’s Day with a special celebration of love! Four comic creators, two married couples! Our guests Dave Roman & Raina Telgemeier and John Green & Marion Vitus join us to talk about love and comics! From how they met to [...]
Continue ReadingAt Comicmix, podcasting is the focus
Share this link on Facebook!TweetContinuing to roll-out their multi-media offerings, Comicmix has added podcasting to the mix: Starting this week, ComicMix will produce three podcasts a week, airing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Hosted by Mike Raub ), each will feature the latest news on comics, films, music, television, games and more. Tuesday’s episodes will contain [...]
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