The Round-up

Kasia Kowalska writes: Hunt Emerson, the comics artist and Procartoonists.org member, is helping launch a new project called Handsworth Creative cic. The “cic” stands for community interest company. The not-for-profit venture is part Lottery-funded and aims to develop creative local history projects by and for the residents of Handsworth, Birmingham. Appropriately, the first product will […]

Opinion: Tearing a strip off automated online cartoons

The Procartoonists.org blog notes with interest the rise of Bitstrips, an app that allows anyone to make clip-art style cartoons featuring themselves. Billed as “instant comics and cards starring you and your friends”, they are popular for Facebook e-cards and status updates. We have seen this kind of automation of cartooning skills before. And now, […]

Christmas is a time for sharing

We are taught that Christmas is a time for sharing and this habit has been institutionalised with the gifts of the social media. If you will forgive the spirit of “Bah humbug’”, we spotted a revealing story about what social-media sharing can mean for those image makers who choose to use such free services. The picture-sharing […]

The cartoonist and the twits

Our man Bill Stott reports: Well, I tried. Caved in to peer pressure and signed up to Twitter. Did the same with Facebook years ago. Finally managed to un-Facebook myself a while back. At least, I think I did. You can never tell with these things. Joining’s easy. Leaving’s a lot more complicated. A bit […]

Go ahead punk… CLiNT hits the stands

A new British adult comic, CLiNT, launches on the 2nd September. Featuring writers including TV’s Jonathan Ross and contraversial comedian Frankie Boyle, the magazine is a collaboration between Kick Ass artist Mark Millar and Titan Publishing. The comic, that Millar describes as “The Eagle for the 21st Century,” is aimed at men aged 16-30. You […]