Berkeley Breathed continues his book tour. He was interviewed by the Northwest Herald. Did you think “Bloom County” was going to be as successful as it was? The only reason that “Bloom County” worked in the ’80s is because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had no intentions of being any more of […]
Berkeley Breathed is out on his book tour for his new book “Mars Needs Moms.” He was interviewed on American University’s NPR program. Streaming audio is available.
From the Fantagraphics Book blog we learn that during the month of May Fantagraphics Books is offering 20% off of their entire store purchases. To be eligible for the discount, you must be connected to them through a social network (e.g. Myspace, Flickr, Yahoo! 360. See link above for full details). Fantagraphics produces many complete […]
A new Blondie book is due out this August called, Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History and will focus on the comic’s history, characters and creators. The feature is 77 years old.
Universal Press Syndicate has partnered with Lulu.com to launch a storefront in efforts to create a new way to produce and distribute their books. Lulu.com is a print on demand solution and this deal appears to give cartoonists and fans an opportunity to create their own books and calendars. Initially, the features that will be […]
Scott Adams will have a new Dilbert collection out next month called Positive Attitude. The collection reprints cartoons that ran between June 2006 and March 2007 and will be in color.
Mark Heath will have a new Spot the Frog collection on store shelves next month. The book is entitled, It’s Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee.
Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, will be honored tomorrow at the ninth annual Ken Book Awards breakfast for his book, The War Within: One More Step at a Time. Garry receives his award for “outstanding literary contributions to a better understanding of mental illness.”
I received an email from Greg Hatfield of Checker Book Publishing who is announcing that they will be releasing a book collection of B.C. strips (500 total) this August entitled, GrowinGold with B.C.: A 50 Year Celebration by Johnny Hart. The cover art is an original Johnny Hart drawing that he did for the book […]
The Aaugh blog reports that The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 is already shipping.
For Better of For Worse creator, Lynn Johnston, will be on hand on Saturday May 5th at North Bay Ontario to meet fans and sign books. She’ll also be in Sudbury Ontario on May 6th. Check her web site for time and location.
From the AAEC web site comes news that R.C. Harvey’s biography of Milton Caniff, creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon is due out next month. “Twenty-five years in the making,” Harvey joked: “I started on it in 1982, interviewing Caniff, who was still alive then, and I finished the first draft in […]
Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus is coming out with a new children’s book called Mars Needs Moms and will be promoting the book at various locations around the country. Here are the dates and times so far:Friday, May 4th, 7pm, Willow Book & Caf, 279 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720Saturday, May […]
Milton Caniff seems to be the big rage this year – and deservedly so. It was his collection that jump-started the OSU Cartoon Research Library that is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary and will focus on Milton this October during the Festival of Cartoon Art, R.C. Harvey is writing Milton’s biography, and Humorous Maximus received permission […]
The Jewish Exponent ran an article yesterday about the success of Terry and Patty Laban’s comic feature, Edge City. Edge City was not conceived as a Jewish comic feature, but a simple comic about young families, but in 2002 (the feature started in 2000) after noticing that no other comic features celebrated Jewish holidays, they […]