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I -PIPE INC. HAS become the host of Web sites run by an organization and a syndicate that represent more than 650 cartoonists.
The Richmond, Va.-based Internet hosting/publishing company has signed deals with the National Cartoonists Society, which has more than 300 (mostly American) working cartoonist members; and the Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate, which has over 350 contributors from the U.S. and around the world.
The NCS Web site was launched last year, and the CWS one started last month.The sites are separate, but they will be linked to each other and to many more cartoon-related sites.
"There's a synergy in being together," said I-Pipe President Rich Johann.
"One site feeds off the other," agreed CWS president and editorial director Jerry Robinson.
"This could be the definitive resource for cartooning and cartoonists," added Julie Sigwart, art director of the NCS site.
As part of its hosting arrangement, IPipe will help interested NCS members set up their own sites as offshoots of the NCS site. NCS second vice president Daryl Cagle said he's hoping at least 20 cartoonists will take advantage of this during the next year, but Johann thinks the...