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Kids spending 63% more time online than five years ago

Kids spending 63% more time online than five years ago

Adding a contradictory point to the previous post about Wednesday Comics, here’s a tidbit to consider: US kids aged 2-11 are spending +63% more time online over the last five years, according to a new Nielsen report, from about 7 hours in May 2004 to 11+ hours online in May 2009.

In May 2009, kids 2-11 comprised 16 million, or 9.5% of the online universe (a fairly split evenly between boys and girls).  This is an increase over 2004, with the number of K2-11 online growing +18%. K2-11 are also outpacing the increase for the overall population, which was up by 36% over the last five years. Boys are spending 7% more time online than girls, but girls are taking in more content, viewing 9% more web pages than boys in May 2009. Meanwhile, in May 2009, boys led in viewing and time spent, consuming 61% of video streams among kids and comprising 57% of the time spent viewing videos.

So with this new growth, combined with the collapse of the newsstand market, if you want to reach that new, upcoming audience and hook them on reading comics, where should you be…?

(Hat tip: Cynopsis. And a virtual nickel to the first person who can identify the picture.)

The Point – April 17th, 2009

The Point – April 17th, 2009

Comics creators come from all sorts of places and today you meet a lady who goes from the burlesque stage to the drawing board. Molly Crabapple has a story to tell and she does it in a new graphic novel, plus that GI JOE series you’ve been waiting for hits the web today, and you know you want a "Gleek" action figure. We can tell you the only place you can get one!
 
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ComicMix Quick Picks – April 16, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 16, 2009

Today’s list of quick comic-related items that have piled up here…

  • After three decades, Starlog shifts to the Web exclusively. That link points to ComicMix’s Bob Greenberger, who put in his time there and recalls what it was like.
     
  • How does Kevin Smith get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, and pornography. Or something like that.
     
  • Our friends at FEARnet reported strong viewing numbers for Q1, up 72% over the same period in 2008 (48.5 million vs. 28.2 million). FEARnet views were also up for 13% from February 2009 (17.3 million vs. 15.2 million). Friday the 13th led the FEARnet movie pack with 1.9 million views, followed by The Descent with 1.6 million views and Already Dead with 1.5 million views.
     
  • Rorschach’s LiveJournal. Never compromise or use LOL.
     
  • io9 – Why Science Fiction Still Doesn’t Get Into The Inner Circle


  • SFWA Website Comes To Life, Starts Attacking Web Browsers: This story just makes me shake my head. You’d like to think that SF people are the most tech-savvy folks on the planet, and they so often aren’t.
     
  • "My wife’s consoling comment the other day — that I had lost all my credit cards and cash, but it could have been the Kindle…"
     
  • What the new Sorcerer Supreme needs to know.
     
  • And finally, I’m saddened to report on the passing of Judith Krug. A librarian by training, Judith became the director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and a champion for the First Amendment whether it was confronting efforts to ban books in pubic libraries (including public school libraries), creating Banned Books Week, challenging efforts to force libraries to place clumsy, ineffective filters on public computers with internet access or critiquing the intrusive provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, especially as those provisions affected library patrons. I met her when we were co-plaintiffs in ACLU v. Reno, and she was classy as hell.

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The Point – April 13th, 2009

The Point – April 13th, 2009

One minute they are playing D&D and the next they are saving the world – they are THE ACCIDENTAL HEROES now showing on the web, plus Mike Gold plays Who’s Who, Angelina might visit SIN CITY and some nasty internet guy broke WOLVERINE’S heart.
 
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The Point – February 23rd, 2009

The Point – February 23rd, 2009

This week we not only hit the comic store for our Five Cool Things, but we stick around to meet the staff. Issues the Series is the web feature about Life in A Comic Shop and we hang out with two of the stars, plus comics’ brief shining moment at The Oscars, why funny books aren’t funny and set aside a good three hours now for WATCHMEN. 

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ComicMix Quick Picks – February 19, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – February 19, 2009

Today’s list of quick items that don’t fill a full post on their own:

  • If you haven’t read it yet, you simply must: about DIGITAL COMICS by ~Balak01 on deviantART. Now this is the way to think about digital comics, none of this clutch cargo animation going around. Marvel, take note.
     
  • Matt Smith locked into Doctor Who role with £600,000 deal. And most importantly, it’s a five year deal.
     
  • Missed this one: Two more actors reported to be in line for The Flash — and one of them is Neil Patrick Harris, who already voiced the Flash in New Frontier.
     
  • And speaking of Neil Patrick Harris, Trinity College in Connecticut is running live performances of Dr. Horrible. Everybody, sing along!
     
  • “Spider-Man” Arrested In Israel:

    “Cops were called to the scene after receiving a flurry of calls from gridlocked commuters near the Rosh Ha’ayin intersection who reported a man in a Spiderman costume throwing ropes at cars, the improvised lassos presumably meant to substitute for the web-crawler’s famous mechanical web-shooters.”

    When the individual woke up in the hospital, he said that he had no idea where the costume came from.

    Clearly, this is going to be the evil costume’s fault. Via Haaretz

  • My favorite non-comics story of the day: Police: TV exec beheads wife who filed for divorce.
     
  • Joss Whedon to receive SFWA Bradbury Award. Created in 1992 by then-President Ben Bova and named after famed author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, the Bradbury Award is a special president’s award presented for outstanding genre-themed work in a dramatic medium. "Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as any other writer I read," Whedon said. "To receive the award named for him is an honor I’d not dreamed of. In my defense, it didn’t exist back then. What did exist were the very lovely, very twisted and very human stories that warped my impressionable mind, and that I have tried, in whatever medium they will let me, to measure up to." Whedon will be honored during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles, California, April 24-26, 2009.

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‘Rip Haywire’ gets Syndicated January 5

‘Rip Haywire’ gets Syndicated January 5

  • News
  • December 12, 2008

Cartoonist Dan Thompson will see his humorous Rip Haywire adventure strip go from the web to newspapers when United Media syndicates the strip as of January 5, 2009.

“Featuring stunning artwork and blending melodrama with deadpan humor, Rip Haywire is not only a loving update of thrilling golden-age comics like Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates, but also a witty satire of the action genre in general,” Ted Rall, United Media’s acquisitions editor said in a release. “Dan Thompson’s masterpiece sends up all manner of macho icons, from action movie heroes like Schwarzenegger to TV shows like 24. I was instantly hooked.”

The syndicate describes the character as “a soldier of fortune cast as a comic version of Indiana Jones, James Bond and Jason Bourne. Along for the ride in his adventures are his cowardly dog, TNT, and his ex-girlfriend Cobra.”

Rip Haywire has been on the web for nearly two years and has briefly been part of Viper Comics and Humorous Maximus.  Thompson is also known for the webcomic Lost Sheep.

Thompson began working for a Connecticut animation studio before going freelance.  His work has been seen in releases from Mad kids Magazine, Platinum Studios, and Universal Press Syndicates/Uclick. He is a member of the National Cartoonist Society and makes his home in North Carolina.
 

Election Day, ComicMix style

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  • November 4, 2008

Everybody else is watching the results come in, after they go out and vote. But we are a comic book / pop culture web site. We know what the real debate is:


Get your own Poll!

Vote, and give your reasons to the exit pollers in the comments section. (Hey, it beats hitting refresh on fivethirtyeight.com every ten minutes.)

Fangoria’s Comic Book Imprint Rises from the Dead

Fangoria’s Comic Book Imprint Rises from the Dead

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  • October 11, 2008

Fangoria’s comic book line appears ready for resurrection.

The editors recently posted on their MySpace page:

“That’s right, kiddies. We’ve gotten the band back together! Troy Brownfield, Fangoria Graphix Associate Editor here. I don’t have to tell you all that’s it been a weird couple of years. But Executive Editor Scott Licina, Production Manager Jason Moser, Director of New Media Development James Zahn and I are thrilled to be back where it all started. Ever since Tom DeFeo and The Brooklyn Company took over, we’ve been talking about what new horrible things we could do to all you, er, do together. The logical first step was to put the work that we originally did under the Fango umbrella in its natural place: right here, right in front of you, our most loyal readers.

“SO . . . knowing that, what are you going to see? There will be Bump. There will be the complete Rage and the complete Strangeland: Seven Sins. And in multiple languages. But there will also be new and frightening things in the offing. Like the Death Walks the Streets series. Like Ellium. Like Doubloon. Like online and downloadable comics. Like novels. Like graphic novels. And more.”

At present, the magazine’s website is down for retooling so this is the sole source for information at present.
 

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Classic ‘R.U.R.’ Restaged in Chicago

Classic ‘R.U.R.’ Restaged in Chicago

  • News
  • October 9, 2008

Chicago’s Strawdog Theatre Company has mounted a new production of Karel Capek’s 1920 play R.U.R.  The seminal science fiction play gave the world the word “robot” (based on the Czech word for laborer) and this will run through October 25.

The play stars Ryan Bollettino, Brennan Buhl, Zachary Clark, Andrew Gebhart, Joe Goldammer, Sara Gorsky, Carmine Grisolia, Jocelyn Kelvin, Nick Lake, Anderson Lawfer, Michaela Petro, Henry Riggs, John Henry Roberts, Noah Simon, and Rebekah Ward-Hays.

The initials stand for Rossum’s Universal Robots. The theatre company’s site says, “Forget clunky metal boxes, these robots are genetically engineered humans with the troublesome parts, like needs and desires, omitted. The men of R.U.R. live alongside their constructs on a remote island, closely guarding their secret formula while supplying the world with all the cheap labor it can stand. It runs like clockwork until a beautiful young robot rights activist arrives via her father’s private boat.

“Shade Murray, director of Strawdog’s Jeff Award-winning Detective Story and Marathon ’33 once again breathes new life into a forgotten gem, a funny and fast-paced character piece that happens to blow the lid off a whole mess of deep metaphysical questions. What is life? What is love? You won’t find out on the web site.”

Tickets cost $20 and performances are Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 7 p.m.
 

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