BookExpoCast to be posted
You know this BEA thing is getting so easy -- we could run around and yap without having to run to programming all the time, because we knew that many of the programs will...
MTV announces “New Media Comic Book Projects”
Although this looks like one of those simple new media tech acquisition announcements, we hear quite a few people were interested in the Bomb- xx system, and the examples we've seen of it at...
Sunday Listenings: Buenaventura and Hignite
Boing Boing presents its Get Illuminated Podcast episode 8: Comic Art Magazine which interviews publisher Alvin Buenaventura and editor Todd Hignite on the subject of their magazine Comic Art.
Alvin also publishes other...
Jonas Moore: what are these VISUAL NOVELS???
As part of the imminent cell phone/iPod revolution many large corporations are sinking money into creating comics that can easily be morphed into cartoons or movies, or hybrids of the same. The flipside...
A little bit more on new media – UPDATE
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...
News ‘n’ Notes
§ 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...
PULP SECRET gives away comics
The 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...
Animated New Yorker cartoons on iTunes?
Here'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...
ELEPHANTMEN go to mobile phones
Well, 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...
Publisher launches manga mag for phones
Although 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...
Linkie winkins from all over
§ 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...
Is this our future?
ComiPress 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...
