Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists It’s a Pug’s Life Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes Britain’s Best Ever Political Cartoons Comic […]
Mike Rhode writes: Since I first saw his cartoons about books and reading on the next-to-last page of the New York Times Book Review, Grant Snider has been one of my favorite cartoonists. His new book, The Art of Living: Reflections onMindfulness and the Overexamined Life (Abrams Comic Arts, $19) is full of his delightful […]
After mentioning The Reubens and CXC lets talk MoCCA.The Society is thrilled to welcome you back to the 2022 MoCCA Arts Festival! Please join us in celebrating a selection of top comic, cartoon and illustration artists from around the world! Featuring work by over 500 creators the weekend will also include live lectures, panels, and […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: David Sipress, welcome to FRESH AIR. I love your cartoons. Thank you for being here. Let’s start with your most published and tweeted cartoon. SIPRESS: I wrote that sometime during the ’90s. It’s not a New Yorker cartoon. I never can remember where it first started, but I think it was during […]
Stephan Pastis is going on a “mini-book tour,” meaning the tour is short not that his book is small (the newest book is a giant-sized treasury).Stephan is abandoning The West to visit a number of cities in The South to talk about his Pearls Before Swine comic strip. He’s already adding more cities to the […]
A new co-signature appeared this week in the Bliss panel.© Harry BlissA commenter at GoComics guessed Cary Stringfield, a web developer and cartoonist. With no proof I propose an alternative – Anne Stringfield, aka Mrs. Steve Martin (Steve Martin has been offering gags to Harry Bliss for a while now).From The Famous People website (since […]
Michael Maslin writes: We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories to explore. Bruce Eric Kaplan wrote one, I Was A Child — “profusely illustrated” according to the publisher. Edward Sorel recently published Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir; […]
[Liza Donnelly’s] latest book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, publishes in March. In it, Donnelly continues telling the history of some of the women artists published in the nearly 100-year-old magazine starting from 2005, where her earlier book, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons, left off. North […]
David Sipress writes: In the fall of 1969, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to quit graduate school at Harvard, where I was enrolled in a master’s program in Soviet studies. As the euphoria brought on by my boldness began to fade, an overwhelming anxiety about consequences took over… Chief among my real-world worries was that […]
Following the news that The New Adventures of Tarzan will be collected between hard covers comes Dark Horse announcing they will also publish the other Tarzan strip from the E. R. Burroughs website.From The Beat:For years, the Tarzan of the Apes comic strips by Roy Thomas, Pablo Marcos, and Oscar Gonzalez have been available exclusively to subscribers of the Edgar […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924 Invisible Presence Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs Come Over Come Over (hardcover edition) review SUPERHUMAN: THE BRONZE AGE OF […]
The law of unintended consequences.Maus by Art Spiegelman at Amazon as of 12 noon PST: And in all books:edit to addIn all books at 2:30am January 29, 1922:#3 Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Paperback) #4 The Complete Maus (Hardcover)
Southeast Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board has voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from every school district library. From the Daily Beast: The McMinn County school board’s 10 members voted to axe Maus from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings of […]
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Alley Oop Book One: Dinny Comic Book Women The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 11: 2002-2004 Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the […]