My friend Tony Murphy, artist behind the very funny comic strip It’s All About You syndicated through The Washington Post Writers Group, is raising money on Kickstarter.com to start a new project.
His goal is to create a weekly comic-strip broadsheet titled Coffee Talk that will be carried in coffee shops or cafes. The purpose behind that goal is to breathe life into and revive the experience of the newspaper comic strip.
From Tony’s page on Kickstarter:
The internet is great — but there’s nothing like reading comic strips in a newspaper you can hold in your hand. The project is therefore to create a newspaper of comic strips. Since much of my strip, It’s All About You, takes place in a cafe or is coffee-related, Coffee Talk could be carried in cafes and coffee shops.
One of the strips he would LIKE to run in this new broadsheet is Mr. Zimby … created by yours truly … but it all depends on how much funding he can get to start this thing.
So if there are any generous philanthropists among my readership here, I would encourage you to visit Tony’s Kickstarter page and make a donation. It sounds like a really cool idea and it just might give Mr. Zimby his print debut!
And do yourself a favor and check out Tony’s strip by clicking on the comic up top!
Sounds like an interesting idea, although I do not drink coffee so I would be left out. I would be glad to donate if he would pick up Gill as well.
Very cool. I’m a big fan of this idea of Tony’s, and I’d love to see it happen. Good luck!
I’m sorry if I’m so late to this post.. I wonder if he’s got a good idea but hopefully it builds into a great idea.
I love the idea of a focused weekly comic-strip broadsheet that is targeted at coffee shops. Maybe I would take it a step forward though and work to other weekly broadsheet that focused on other markets.
How about a gamer comic paper that would go to all the game stops and blockbuster movie stores.
A fishing, hunting, camping paper that would go to gander mountains stores.
It takes the little local shopper idea and brings it to comics.