Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. A couple late listings from last month: Back to New Year new books. top image Peanuts by Charles Schulz © Peanuts […]
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, HergéAlex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories and dug up her vitals from birth: Bessie Mae Kelley was born Elizabeth Mae Kelley. The date of her birth is unclear: November 1889 in the 1900 United States Census; November 10, 1890, Minnesota Death Index; […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. It appears a few books were missed last month so we’ll start with November releases. The Art of C.C. Beck: The World’s […]
Award Winning Cartoonists Kevin Necessary (1st Place) and Rich Williams (2nd Place) win 2022 cartooning awards from The Press Club of Cleveland for Ohio Excellence in Journalism. Mercer Mayer Media Publishers Weekly on author-illustrator Mercer Mayer‘s new multimedia deal. Mercer Mayer, author of 300 books including the long-running Little Critter series, has […]
From the VCU News: Tom De Haven, a retired Virginia Commonwealth University professor and author of a series of novels centered around comic strip writers, appeared as himself in Sunday’s edition of the nationally syndicated comic strip “Dick Tracy,” shaking hands with the famed fictional detective. Dick Tracy © Tribune Content Agency; The Funny Papers […]
The Evolving Art of Ruffling Feathers © Steve Nease Most newspapers had a full-time cartoonist on staff. Now, the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze. Steve Nease, one of Canada’s premier cartoonists, isn’t surprised. A lot of papers no longer run, not just his, but any cartoons. “Sometimes, it’s a cost-cutting matter,” he admits. Cartoonists aren’t […]
From The Minot Daily News: Minot native Cord Scott’s latest book is titled “The Mud and the Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I.” Scott, a professor with the University of Maryland Global Campus based in Okinawa, Japan, said the book “discusses the use of cartoons drawn by Marines in the early part of the […]
The other day Mike Peterson featured “a well-crafted homage” cartoon by Daniel Boris in his column. An unfamiliar name to me – but it was a great cartoon for old Warner Bros. animation fans.© Daniel BorisThose of us wanting to know more about the cartoonist are rewarded with an auto-profile by Daniel supplied to Mike […]
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster. At press time, Judge Florence Y. Pan’s opinion was not yet public as the parties still need to agree on redactions to protect confidential information, but in a brief two page order Pan enjoined the […]
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is VitalArt Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower, a bowl of cereal, a cup of coffee and a hard-copy morning newspaper. If my kids have used up all the hot water, a lukewarm or even a cold shower will do the trick. If we’re […]
Gary Larson’s 10 Best Comics, Ranked © Gary LarsonScreen Rant lists, what they purport to be, The 10 Best Cartoons from Gary Larson’s The Far Side. Gary Larson wrote his comic strips for syndication for over 15 years, each one is funny and some are perfect examples of what comic art can be. Gary […]
Belatedly we welcome cartoonist Lee Lorenz to our Senior Strippers club.Michael Maslin notified us (for some reason our notebook says born in 1933): Lee Lorenz Born October 17, 1932, Hackensack, NJ. Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. During his tenure, a new […]
© Patrick McDonnellPatrick McDonnell passes on a little inside stuff: MUTTS might look a little different to you this week and in the future. If so, it’s because I’ve loosened up my art style, using very little preliminary pencils (in some cases none) and going straight to drawing in ink. It gives the strip more […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. We start with a set missed this past Summer. Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strip Collection – Volume 1 (1962-1963) Rocky and […]
Liz Montague! Elizabeth Montague is a cartoonist and author known online as “Liz at Large” or simply Liz Montague. She made national news in 2019 for being the first [second*] [third**] Black cartoonist for the New Yorker. Since then she has worked with President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. Open, and Google, where she […]