HI Everybody, 

 

I am creating a cartoon show, which i am hoping will be the greatest cartoon show ever. Are there any animators or cartoonist here that are interested in joining?

 

Please call me if interested and we can discuss details further. 

 

Thanks, 

Alan 

917-843-3160

 

 

If you're a U.S. citizen and still not registered to vote (or you're not sure if you are), Obama's website now includes a ridiculously easy voter registration site:

http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php

As I mentioned in a previous post, my mom's going door-to-door for the Obama campaign back in Ohio. Here is her latest thrilling story of campaigning in a battleground state. She interrupted her annual outing to the Yankee Peddler craft festival to call and tell me this:

So we come up to this house. We were here to see a 79-year-old woman. My list, by the way, is a list supposedly comprising undecideds, and we're supposed to ask for those people no matter who answers the door.

It’s time for  Eyeskream Comic Swap IV - September 22nd to 28th. 

This annual event gets the Eyeskream members to draw comics for one another.  The comics that each member is assigned to draw are randomly selected in secret.  So the artists don't know who is drawing their comic, until the finished work is sent to them.

So after wandering the wilds of Arizona last week I thought I'd catch us all up on some things from webcomicland:

First off here's a post from DJ Coffman any creator looking to do the webcomic thing should read: "Host your own friggin' webcomic" shows how you can start up a webcomic for almost nothing.

INTERVIEWS
Last week there was a good interview with Gordon McAlpin, the talented creator of Multiplex and a co-host of the Triple Feature movie podcast.  I've been reading Multiplex from day one so I don't really know if it's underrated or not -- either way if you're not reading it give it a look -- it's a great mix of actual story along with a big box of popcorn movie-related subjects.

BUSINESS
Chcuk Rozakis ask some good questions about how comics publishers will make use of the web.  Is he right that a "perfect" e-reader will be a print-killer?  Is DRM (i.e., copyright protection) going to slow down or stop fans migration to the publishers' web offerings?

El Santo takes a look at Marvel's announcement it's putting original material - comics based on the Hulk and Iron Man movies - up on the web.

CONVENTIONS
Here's an interview with aka Gabe and Tycho from this year's PAX about the Penny Arcade empire, including the location (BOSTON!) of next year's PAX EAST.

COLLECTIVES
The Eyeskream webcomic collective adds three new webcomics to its roster: Little Terrors, Gamer Candy, and Somewhere in SF.

CONTESTS
Roddenberry comics is giving away stuff: a 2009 Roddenberry Comics Calendar, featuring episodes from “Gene’s Journal’ and “Rod Barry,";  a pair of clocks of both “Gene’s Journal” and “Rod & Barry,” and a “Gene’s Journal” journal, ready to keep your most trusted thoughts and memories.  Check out the site for contest details.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Check out the newest bit of robot-goodness: Lovesick Robot.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one. Originally I wanted to digitally paint this but, the tree is telling me that it may want to be inked. I have a thing for trees; especially twisted, old ones.