We [cartoonists] live and die by our newspapers… We’ve all built our careers on trying to be content for newspapers. If newspapers are struggling, then we’re struggling as […]
Our readers get enough preaching from their parents, from teachers, from the clergy. Everyone’s preaching to them, telling them to do this and don’t do that. When they […]
For my money, nothing beats printed comics and graphic novels, but the new technology offers one big advantage that makes it very appealing… the direct distribution of content […]
Nothing I’ve done has ever been popular. Snoopy is popular. Calvin and Hobbes are popular. I love those characters, but everything in Smell of Steve is just conceptual […]
Webcomics have proven they can be successful and profitable for single cartoonists, but I’ve yet to see a company utilize them as anything other than a promotional tool.
I find it incredible that drawings on paper can make people laugh or cry or get angry. You know these primitive, occult marks that really quite magically come […]
By virtue of their unrestricted nature, pirated comics are a shared experience as well, as is much of the modern World Wide Web, from social networking sites like […]
Comics may not have its Beethoven yet, but he/she might just be reading this stuff in a year or two, between Math and Social Studies, and realizing for […]
I’m quite confident that they [newspaper comics] will last a lifetime – as long as your life is scheduled to go subterranean by 2012. Beyond that, you might […]
I’m a big fan of losing the “comics” from “webcomics” insofar as that the comic format doesn’t have to be the beginning and end of a creator’s expression […]
Webcomics have emerged as an important new medium and an inexpensive way to expand your library’s collection far beyond its physical boundaries.