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From Collected Comics Library blog, comes news that Vanity Fair is running an excerpt of the soon to be released biography of Charles Schulz.Link hat tip: Tom Spurgeon

Over on Comic Book Resources is a great, and lengthy interview with Gary Gianni who began to take over on the art work on Prince Valiant in 2000 while John Cullen Murphy transitioned out. Gary also talks about a Prince Valiant art book that is due out next year which will include reproductions of preliminaries, […]

In continuation of the partnership between Universal Press and Lulu.com, a new comic collection for Stone Soup has been released. The book by Stone Soup creator, Jan Eliot, is entitled “There’s No ‘WE’ in Crowning!” and is largely on the topic of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and midwifery. This book can be purchased for $8.95 for […]

From the ComicsDC blog, Mike Rhode informs us that David Willis, author of “Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print and Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression” will be speaking next Monday, September 24th at George Mason University during their 6 day book festival. All events are free and open to the […]

F-Minus creator Tony Carrillo has posted a short video to YouTube to describe what his F-Minus book collection will be like. My first thought: An episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos?See the video for yourself.The book is available at Amazon.

Universal Press and Lulu.com are now offering more titles for their print-on-demand partnership service. In addition to PreTeena, The Fusco Brothers and Clear Blue Water, comic fans can also order A Boatload of Louis by Overboard creator Chip Dunham, and Betty Dubnam’s Mini Page children’s feature.

E&P writes that Khalil Bendib has a new book out entitled, Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons By America’s Most Wanted Political Cartoonist. The book is a collection of hist cartoons. Khalil is perhaps the only Muslim-American editorial cartoonist in the United States. He self-syndicates to over “1,700 small and mid-sized newspapers as well as on Web […]

The Stripper’s Guide blogger/historian Allan Holtz reviews Chester Gould – A Daughter’s Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O’Connell. I soured on Dick Tracy a bit recently when I read the reprints of the first years of the strip. I found the early Tracy stories to be sloppily plotted in the […]

There is an extensive review of R. C. Harvey’s Milton Caniff biography over on Eddie Campbell’s site

E&P is reporting two new book collections to hit the book stores next month. Alternative Zits is the latest Zits collection by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer is the latest Close to Home collection by John McPherson.

The Bat Segundo Show (a literary podcast) recently interviewed Opus creator Berkeley Breathed. See part 1 and part 2. I’ve not listened to these so I have no idea what the content would be, but presumably it’s about Berkeley’s new book.Thanks Mike Rhode for the heads up.

Bill Mauldin, best known for his Willie and Joe characters to comment on World War II, will have a two-volume collection set published by Fantagraphics Books. According to E&P, many of the WWII cartoons have never been reprinted before. The book is entitlted “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years” and is slated for release in […]

Last May I blogged about Universal Press teaming up with Lulu.com, an on-demand printing company, to allow comic fans the ability to create their own books and calendars from their favorite comic features. The first two features are now ready for order: Clear Blue Water, by Karen Montague-Reyes, and Come Here Often?’ Bad Pickup Lines […]

The new Indie Spinner Rack, #88, was released on Wednesday. The latest issue of the audio magazine features part one of an overview of the MoCCA Art Festival and post-show events, including some of the notable book premieres that sold out, post-show parties and plenty more.

Leigh Rubin’s collection of Rubes cartoons, entitled The Wild Life of Love, has received the bronze medal for humor in Foreward Magazine’s 2006 Book of the Year Awards, according to the Creators Syndicate website, where you can get all the details.The single-panel Rubes, originally self-syndicated, now runs in more than 400 newspapers nationwide.