Comix Talk

You’re watching cartoonist and funny-writing-guy Lore Sjoberg’s new videocast right?  The latest Alt-Text by Lore is about the logical fallacies that fuel the ongoing argument-fest that is the intertubes.

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NYTimes reports on a revamped home of Scott Adams’ Dilbert on the web.  One of the new features is a new "mash-up" feature which lets registered visitors to the site tinker with strips from the Dilbert comic by creating their own third-panel punchline.  Scott Adams has always been somewhat interested in tech (he may be the first syndicated cartoonist to put his email address on the strip itself) and it looks like he’s once again trying to do more then the average pre-Internet syndicated cartoonist.

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Journalista! alerted me to the fact that submissions are now being accepted for the 26th annual Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award. Started in 1982 as a joint presentation of Comic-Con International and the West Coast Comics Club, this award honors a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics.

Submissions must be in the hands of the award committee no later than May 10.

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Panels and Pixels has an interview with Mark Tatulli, the creator of Heart of the City and Lio.  Some interesting discussion of Lio — which is a pretty interesting strip for the ol’ newsprint pages: wordless, and somewhat macabre (certainly more so than anything else in newspaper syndication).  Also another tidbit on the reality of making a living as a syndicated cartoonist:

Q: So what led to the creation of Lio?

A: I always worked a full-time job while I was doing Heart of the City because Heart never got to the level where I could support a family on it. It’s good money, but it’s not enough.

So I was working in the TV industry as a creative director at a production company. The business slowed down and I got laid off with a bunch of other people in 2005. I had some savings so I had some time before I had to start finding other work and I thought, "Well, this might be a good chance to start another strip." So I sat down and created Lio

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Word Balloons reviews the latest offering from the Flight anthology series — Flight Explorer is aimed at kids and features similarly fantastic artwork and stories as previous installments of the series:

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Dan Piraro’s Bizarro is one of the better one-panel comics around.  Piraro just announced that he’ll be posting his comic on his blog each day.  His stuff is on the web at Daily Ink but if you don’t want to pay the $15 annual subscription rate for that site now you can see them for free at his blog.

Piraro also recently announced he’ll be selling trading cards featuring Bizarro cartoons and some unpublished work. Right now, he’s pre-selling the cards.  (h/t to Daily Cartoonist: blog story and trading card story)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bup did a great interview with Dan Piraro for our May 2004 issue.

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