After Segar there was Tom Sims writing Popeye. Harry Haenigsen drew the Penny and the teen scene. Tom Sims, Popeye Writer Kelly Kazek for AL.com profiles the local writer who took over the Popeye comic strip after E. C. Segar died (or here). If not for a new folklife marker in Gadsden, Alabamians may have […]
Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
Fan favorites Stephan (Pearls Before Swine) Pastis and Will (Wallace the Brave) Henry have teamed up to create “a laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade adventure” scheduled for release at the beginning of the 2026/27 school season. From the Simon and Shuster description: Porter Avery is just your average boy from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with your average boy […]
The UK Comics Creators Research Report has been issued showing the results of a survey of 700 United Kingdom comics creators taken in the Fall of 2025. The ability to survive financially is disheartening. The vast majority of creators make less than a living wage from their comics endeavors necessitating employment outside the industry and […]
Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small children.I also coached in the fall season, but that was run entirely by the local youth soccer league, and the kids who played then […]