{"id":1976,"date":"2009-02-04T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T18:08:40","slug":"interesting-links-big-funny-announced-february-4th-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/interesting-links-big-funny-announced-february-4th-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERESTING LINKS: BIG FUNNY Announced : February 4th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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READ MORE AND GET THE SUBMISSION DETAILS BY CLICKING ON THE ABOVE IMAGE.<\/strong> This is a really unique and fun opportunity,… I hope a lot of you cartoonists out there will be participating in this! I am one of the curator\/editors for this project.<\/p>\n

BIG FUNNY <\/strong><\/p>\n

The newspaper industry is coughing blood and gasping on its deathbed. Newspapers lost their relevance a long time ago, and with internet media blossoming they can no longer compete. Readers and advertisers have moved on.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, newspapers are taking their beautiful bastard child, the newspaper comic strip, with them.<\/p>\n

Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newspaper comics are much-maligned\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and deservedly so. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s small strips, with mostly predictable, safe themes and bland characters are a pale shadow of what newspaper comics were in their wild and colorful youth.<\/p>\n

110-or-so years from their birth, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good run. Let us not mourn the death of the newspaper comics\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 rather, let us have a wake to celebrate what they once were, and to build something new.<\/p>\n

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy<\/a>, Big Time Attic<\/a>, and Altered Esthetics<\/a> gallery are collaborating to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.<\/p>\n

It will be called BIG FUNNY, and it will be both.<\/p>\n

The paper will premiere at a show at Altered Esthetics in August featuring some of the original art from the paper, along with historical comics pages from the dawn of the last century.<\/p>\n

Submissions are open to all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 no prior cartooning experience is necessary. While we expect to have a lot of cartoonists participate, we are hoping to also have poster artists, printmakers and artists from other disciplines represented.<\/p>\n

DEADLINE IS MAY FIRST.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n