The Round-up
February 24, 2012 in General, Links
Alex, Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor‘s City comic strip for The Daily Telegraph, is celebrating 25 satirical years. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme interviews the strip’s eponymous banker, left, and gets his take on the current state of the economy here. Meanwhile, academics at Oxford University say the Alex strip can be used to forecast the performance of financial markets.
Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens‘ birth earlier this month, the New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff took a look back at some of the Dickensian cartoons by the late Bud Handelsman. If you haven’t already seen them, it’s worth a look.
A piece of original Calvin and Hobbes artwork by creator Bill Watterson has been sold for over $107,000.
Elsewhere, one man’s inherited comic collection has been auctioned off this week for $3.5 million.
Finally, Royal Mail are to celebrate 75 years of British comics next month with a new range of stamps, and Comic Book Alliance is offering a limited edition First Day Cover featuring all 10.
by Alex Hughes
Alex taps into the iPhone
October 14, 2009 in Comment
Bloghorn had a few questions for Alex‘s creators, Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor:
How long did it take to make the 20 special episodes of Alex for the iphone?
Why is getting Alex distributed this way important to you?
Did you do the technological work yourselves? Or, did you use a design agency?
Is the price of the App (59p) reflective of the work that went into making it?
How many downloads have been made during the month trial?
Do you have any plans to take the digital Alex to a subscription site?
So, Alex doesn’t prefer a Blackberry?
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