After the Lion Forge and Oni Press merger was announced, Sasha Bassett decided she wanted to help unionize comics.
Interview: Jimmy Palmiotti on ‘Killing Time in America’ and spending more time on his own projects
Although he’s taking some time off from the mainstream, Jimmy Palmiotti is busy making comics. And this week he’s back with his latest crowdfunder for a graphic novel, Killing Time in America. This time he’s teamed with co-writer Craig Weeden [MIA’S GIFT (novel)- DIAMOND PAYBACK (screenplay)] and artist Justin Norman (aka Moritat) (JONAH HEX, HARLEY QUINN). Colorist […]
How a comics marriage broke up over financial stress
Just to stay on this cheerful topic while everyone is so happy to be back at work after the holiday, Maggie Umber, cartoonist and co-founder of 2dcloud has a very honest post called Getting Divorced in Comics which explains how the financial stress of running a small, art comix publisher helped break up her marriage with Raighne […]
As cartooning becomes a female dominated profession, will rates get lower?
As you may have noticed, female cartoonists are dominating sales charts (well graphic novel sales charts, anyway) and awards and current cartooning classes are anywhere from 50 to 75% female. It seems that a majority of the most notable “emerging cartoonists” are women, and a lot of folks have been joking that it’s hard to find up and coming men in comics.
SPX/Nickelodeon team up gets mixed response
While the chance for SPX exhibitors to pitch cartoon ideas to Nickelodeon as announced yesterday sounds like a good opportunity, there was quite a bit of controversy about it on social, as seen in these tweets. Click on the Gillman and Gran links to go to much longer discussions, but the basic objection is that SPX is a small press show that celebrates the joy of small press comics, and formalizing the participation of a major cartoon network/corporate brand at the show goes against that philosophy.