Tag: Cartoonists

Monday, February 1 was Hourly Comic Day, where cartoonists challenge themselves to draw comics every...hour. The results are quotidian and charming slices of lives...

Storage: the secret shame of the comics world. Like many in the comics industry I'm a bit of a packrat (to put it mildly)...

The best (so far) of Hourly Comics Day 2016!

The 2016 MoCCA Arts Festival has just announced this year's Guests of Honor and they are: Cece Bell, author of the phenomenal middle grade graphic...

Old timers like me well remember the time when a trip to a newsstand was how you got your news and ingested a quick...

Here's a comprehensive interview with Dover's Drew Ford about the future of their comics line, with many more reprints coming (including a personal favorite,...

You know how you hear a name or a word for the first time and then suddenly that name or word is everywhere? Well that name is Tillie Walden, a student from Austin, TX, currently a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies in VT, who is poised to be one of the hottest cartoonists of 2016, after an already spectacular 2015. (Word on the street is that she may have even been part of the inspiration for this infamous comic.) Walden is barely 20 years old (she was born in 1996)and already has amazing drawing chops and solid storytelling—she has several short comics posted on her site that you can read in their entirety. Broken Frontier just named her their Breakout Talent of 2015 and if this is the first time you're hearing about her, it's probably not the last.

I'm late in commenting on the industry rates survey posted by Fair Page Rates an anonymous industry watchdog. But along with the sales softening...

Just before Christmas, I ran a picture tweeted by DC Comics of the 1945 DC Christmas party, with many figures from comics history—from artist Joe Kubert to publisher Harry Donenfeld —in the room. The photo conveyed a palpable sense of the past brought to life, the clinking of glasses, the laughter of women, the camaraderie of the still young industry. And now Letterer/historian Todd Klein has identified as many of the people in the photo as possible.

And here's the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of...

Floyd Norman is a legendary animator and cartoonist. His first big job was on Sleeping Beauty, and he's gone on to work on any...

Here's the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven't noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.