The New York Times reports Google will back exclusive cartoon content for entirely digital distribution this autumn. The search company have a deal with Seth MacFarlane, creator of the American animated series, Family Guy, to produce fifty cartoon shorts. MacFarlane describes the work as “animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier.”
The cartoonist will also create the built-in and drawn advertising in the products.
British cartoon talent
From the PCO (Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation)