Earlier today Ikivo, a provider of mobile SVG tools, announced its marketing alliance with Adobe Systems Inc. The alliance is meant to create high-quality mobile content for mobile phones by combining Ikivo Animator together with Adobe Creative Suite to allow designing, testing, and distribute of compelling Mobile SVG content more easily and effectively. Quoted from the anoucement:

This new workflow enables designers and developers to prepare animated SVG Tiny graphics, such as comics, infotainment, location-based services, maps, financial services, and other graphics-centric services Continue reading →

The Guardian Unlimited (guardian.co.uk), the online counterpart to the popular UK newspaper, has been running a retrospective all week on the work of Robert Crumb. Every day they’ve been posting more content from “The R Crumb Handbook” and discussing some sites dedicated to Crumb.

The series of posts will culminate with a live, on stage interview with the famed underground cartoonist on March 18 at 8:20pm, at the National Film Theatre in London, England.

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There are few blogs that are more then just entertainment. As humble as Eric Burns is he has finally started realizing that his ‘little’ blog makes a difference. Beyond breathing life into little known comics or simply bringing well known ones back from the dead, such as Todd and Penguin, the word Websnark has been made an official english word by Wikipedia.

Over the past couple weeks certain online comics have been getting the attention they deserve. The gaming column of CBSNews.com, GameCore, has been running a series of amazingly impartial surveys about video game violence. What’s even more fantastic are two particular individuals who are part of the panel asked to comment. Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del and Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats were given 14 questions each and responded with intelligent and insightful answers. This is the sort of publicity the online comic community can’t get enough of.

Online comics are not just for the West anymore. Last month the Japan Foundation Forum hosted the “Asia in Comics 2005” symposium in Tokyo. At this two-day event Asian internet distributes discussed the spread of manga on the internet. In a short article on asahi.com there are incites which are always welcome with us:

As print magazines struggle with declining sales, serialized online comics are expanding.The pay is not that much, but you get great exposure from online publishing.

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A very interesting article discussing the affects of the web in editorial cartoons is up on the Online Journalism Review (www.ojr.org) site. The article, by Mark Glasser, talks about the difficulties in finding an audience for editorial cartooning on the web. On one hand you have the older newspaper reader who is most likely to be interested in editorial cartoons, but may be reluctant to use the internet to read them. Continue reading →

First it was the Chicago Tribune and now the Miami Herald. When are newspapers going to figure out they don’t always know what’s best for their audience? The Herald, along with The Boston Globe and the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, will run substitute installments for strips implying the ‘N’ word by using some letters along with some asterisks. The most telling part are comments from Tom Fiedler, the Herald’s executive editor: “It’s our view that the strips and the language in the strips would be offensive to at least a portion of our readership and Continue reading →