above: Macanudo by LiniersHere are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Laptops Are So Warm: An Ask a Cat Collection Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the […]
An Unapologetic Political CartoonistWELLS: I saw on Twitter, I mean I just saw a bit of it, but he apologized and then he sort of apologized for the apology. But people started giving a hard time for apologizing. MACKAY: I think the big difference there is that he’s a freelancer so he doesn’t answer to […]
Steve Sheinkin is an author of fiction and non-fiction works and he is an illustrator of fiction and non-fiction works. Sometimes he blends the fiction and non-fiction and sometimes he blends the prose and the illustrations.Anyway…Steve also does graphic interviews with authors and illustrators, which he calls Walking and Talking with…Here he is Walking and […]
Interview: Bill Griffith, Nobody’s Fool, and a Grand Career in ComicsIn 1976, Zippy began to appear in about 50 alternative weekly newspapers–syndicated only by me. From ’76 to ’85, Zippy was a weekly strip that I syndicated alone. In 1985, the San Francisco Examiner, a daily Hearst paper, was given over to a new generation. […]
Wwwwhhhirrrrrr…tic….tic…..tic……tac Merrie Melodies, Silly Symphonies, and Looney TunesMeet The Queen’s Cartoonists, a New York jazz band bringing back cartoon music.As I watched The Queen’s Cartoonists slip and slide through decades of cartoon music in a matter of minutes, with the animations projected on a large screen behind them, I followed a captivated crowd of young and […]
above: Liò by Mark Tatulli Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2019 release.Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Just Fore Laughs Lucy The Comics Journal #303 (“bookazine”) The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8, 1993 – 1995 Evil Inc: Under New […]
Author, Illustrator and cartoonist Tomi Ungerer has passed away.Jean-Thomas (Tomi) Ungerer November 28, 1931 – February 9, 2019* *Ungerer died sometime during the night of Friday February 8 to Saturday February 9.In 1956, he traveled to America, hitting New York in 1956 with $65 in his pocket and many drawings whereupon Ursula Nordstrom, a publisher […]
The Father of Children’s Goth Edward Gorey is the doubtful guest in this fine biography: a stubbornly evasive and irreducible essence, now sprawled in a tureen, now chewing on crockery, now standing with his nose to the wall. He lived 30 years too early and 100 years too late. His solitude was significant, that’s for […]
When Brian Fies lost his house in the wildfires of 2017, his friends were appropriately horrified.When, shortly thereafter, he produced a short, multi-panel cartoon memoir of the disaster, however, I will confess to a bit of joy, in part because I knew that was how my friend heals, and in part because, we all admitted […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in October. Links lead to the books’ Amazon page. Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Mother Is Coming: A FoxTrot Collection Adult Time: A Baby Blues Collection Dance Like Everybody’s Watching!: A Zits Treasury Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips […]
Doonesbury, Garfield, Star Wars, Peanuts, and more. This week’s releases include: #SAD!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump by G. B. Trudeau Featuring Doonesbury Sunday strips created since President Trump’s election.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose acclaimed Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump blew up the bestseller list, comes the sequel millions prayed would be […]
In advance of the October release of their 35th book “Adult Time,” the Daily Cartoonist conducted an email interview with “Baby Blues” creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott.**TDC: Your 35th (!) Baby Blues book hits the streets in mid-October. How does a 28-year-old comic have 35 books?JS: This is actually our 45th Baby Blues book, […]
Q: You’ve decided to put the pen down on “In the Bleachers” … What gives? The comic is only 33 years old.A: Yeah, 33 years. Would you believe I started Bleachers when I was 4-years old?I didn’t think so. Anyway …I still have three youngsters who need to burn through Dad’s hard-earned cash until they’re […]
Heidi MacDonald reports on the Barnes & Noble announcement that they will be promoting a pre-teen focused graphic book section:Barnes & Noble made it official today. As first reported in The Beat, the retail chain will be adding a separate kids graphic novel section to its stores. According to the official release the sections are […]
What can be done as far as comics history books? Who’s going to improve on Brian Walker’s The Comics? Who’s going to out-reference Holtz’s American Newspaper Comics?The answer is to get specialized. Take a subdivision of the genre and go in-depth. That’s what Ron Goulart did with his The Adventurous Decade years ago, and that’s what Eddie Campbell does […]