Hey Kids! Comics! Classics and Neo-Classics
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
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Refreshing the Reports (Updates)
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, Hergé Alex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories…
Hey Kids! Comics! Books From Last Month and This
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
Wildly Random Weekend Roundup
Award Winning Cartoonists Kevin Necessary (1st Place) and Rich Williams (2nd Place) win 2022 cartooning awards…
Dick Tracy Comic Character Tom De Haven Profiled
From the VCU News: Tom De Haven, a retired Virginia Commonwealth University professor and author of a series of novels…
Clearing the Queue – Tales From Hither and Thither
The Evolving Art of Ruffling Feathers © Steve Nease Most newspapers had a full-time cartoonist on staff. Now, the juice…
Mud and Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I
From The Minot Daily News: Minot native Cord Scott’s latest book is titled “The Mud and the Mirth: Marine Cartoonists…
First Wednesday After the First Tuesday After the First Monday of November (A Cartoonist Roundup)
The other day Mike Peterson featured “a well-crafted homage” cartoon by Daniel Boris in his column. An unfamiliar name to…
No Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster Meld
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster….
A Gathering of Gallimaufry
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is Vital Art Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower,…
Lists: The Far Side, 2022 Graphic Novels, 2023 Stamps, Greatest Comic Artists, Calvin and Hobbes
Gary Larson’s 10 Best Comics, Ranked © Gary Larson Screen Rant lists, what they purport to be, The 10…
A Happy 90th to Lee Lorenz (belated)
Belatedly we welcome cartoonist Lee Lorenz to our Senior Strippers club. Michael Maslin notified us (for some reason our notebook…
Re: Comic Strip Type Cartoonists
© Patrick McDonnell Patrick McDonnell passes on a little inside stuff: MUTTS might look a little different to you this…
Hey Kids! Comics! October BOOooks
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
October Extra! Cartoonists in the News
Liz Montague! Elizabeth Montague is a cartoonist and author known online as “Liz at Large” or simply Liz Montague. She…