Tag: working for a living

After the Lion Forge and Oni Press merger was announced, Sasha Bassett decided she wanted to help unionize comics.

HaiNaNu “Nooligan” Saulque is a visual artist who finds inspiration from fashion, cartoons, golden age comics, and comic strips. He is most recognized for taking pop-culture figures and exaggerating them in cartoonish fashion, always...

Ever since her debut novel in 1993, author Sherrilyn Kenyon has been hard at work behind the keyboard. With her current series of books including The Dark Hunters, The League, Nevermore, Deadman’s Cross, Chronicles...

Exhibiting at a comic-con, particularly in Artists Alley, can be fun and lucrative -- or it can leave you frustrated, exhausted, and broke.

  Writer Bill Messner-Loebs - who once worked on The Flash and Wonder Woman, reinvented Johnny Quest, and made a million dollars writing dialog for The Maxx - is now homeless and working at various...

Uh oh. "Do you have an original idea for a movie? And do you plan on attending Wizard World Comic Con Portland? This could be your day."

Although he's taking some time off from the mainstream, Jimmy Palmiotti is busy making comics. And this week he's back with his latest crowdfunder for a graphic novel,  Killing Time in America.  This time he's teamed...

Let's investigate one of the most haunting quotes ever attributed to a cartoonist.

  Last month at New York Comic Con, I had the chance to interview Tim Clarke, a toy designer with more than 30 years of experience, some of which through Jim Henson Company and most...

Making a living as a cartoonist isn't easy, as longtime Beat readers well know. However, one excellent source of revenue for a while was The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank, which licensed cartoons for secondary use,...

By Andrea Ayres On the search for women colorists, letterers, inkers, writers or artists but aren’t sure where to look? Then the Visible Women hashtag is the place for you. The event is a project...

  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=466575847074221&set=a.118014141930395.1073741828.100011654289334&type=3&theater The above post by Rich Tommaso on FB has been lighting up creator chatrooms and my  inbox since it went up yesterday. Tommaso is a long time indie comics veteran, with such books as...