Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave Murray Ball A Cartoonist’s Life (author interview) Alley Oop and The Captive Prince The Life and Times […]
Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Bill Plympton, J. C. Duffy, Trina Robbins, Georgia Higley, Peter Maresca.Bored Panda regularly features small collections of comics, today it is the syndicated Speed Bump. Bored Panda usually includes a few words from the cartoonist and in this one Dave Coverly is interviewed. “I have to turn in 7 cartoons every […]
The new book by cartoonist Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming, was released today and is being talked about and reviewed by all the major outlets. So The Daily Cartoonist, which dreams of playing with the big boys, joins in.A day late, we missed the launch at Museum of the City of New York yesterday.The […]
Know, O children, that there was a time when coffee tables across the nation were covered with magazines – Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Companion, True, Look, Reader’s Digest. Field & Stream, and so many others – and those magazines carried a dozen or so gag cartoons in each and every issue. It was an […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. The Great Pencil Quest Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 6: 1940 – The Time of Cholera Poor Helpless Comics!: The […]
We’ll start with a nice 3½ minute segment from News12’s Made in Connecticut featuring Ray Billingsley. This week in Made in Connecticut, News 12 features Ray Billingsley, the cartoonist and creator of “Curtis,” a nationally syndicated comic strip. The character is a very likeable, but mischievous 11-year-old boy who’s loved by millions. While “Curtis” has […]
Today is the official release date of The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht. From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. In a fable for grown-ups […]
We know where Mike is, but me? – I’m all over the place. Following are items from hither and yon. Last month we noted that Peter Steiner’s “On the internet no one knows you’re a dog” panel went to auction. Michael Maslin lets us know the results ($175,000) – yeah, a reason to use paper […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Unsupervised: A Crabgrass Comics Adventure Out of Line: The Graphic Humor of D. Watson How to Make Money Writing for Comics Magazines (new […]
Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell has written and illustrated a love letter to the comic books of his youth. “The Super Hero’s Journey is a fantastical dream-memory of my childhood infatuation with comic books, and a tale of the spiritual inner journey of reconnecting to the “super being” in us all. The book is a love […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Got a few books released in August missed on the mid-August listing. So… Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1 The Cambridge Companion to […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Jack Kent: The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of a Comic Storyteller Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe Three Rocks: […]
The Nib magazine free! Simon and Schuster books $1.62 billion! New Bloom County comic strips! Peanuts merch! The Addams Family versus The Simpsons Family!The Nib is offering, through August 2023, free downloads of all 15 issues of The Nib magazine. The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end […]
For ten days, until August 17, 2023, the University Press of Mississippi is putting its books on sale at 40% off! This is the time to fill in any gaps in your UPM library of comics related books. The brand new Jack Kent biography – 40% off ($59.40 hardcover, $15.00 paperback).The almost brand new Blockheads, […]
It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and what your heirs will do with all those comics. EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE NOT MEMES! Graeme MacKay, “One of the last staff editorial cartoonists still slogging away at a daily newspaper,” discusses the difference between editorial […]