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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 […]

Two Winsor McCay books are due out this summer. The first is “The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume One” (look for it on May 1) and the latter is a softcover edition of “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays” (June 1). Both books are published by Checker Book Publishing Group.The Little Nemo edition […]

Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, writes about some irony regarding the newly published “Killed Cartoons” in which the publisher killed a 2002 cartoon by Doug Marlette depicting a jihadist driving a Ryder retnal truck with a nuclear bomb in the back with a caption that read: What Would Mohammad Drive? From her column: Editors and […]

According to E&P, Patrick McDonnell has a new Mutts collection (208 pages) that is due out in May. This is Patrick’s 16th Mutts collection book. The book is entitled: Animal Friendly

From the Aaugh blog comes news that a collectible Peanuts Classic Box Set will be released this September. The box set will have all eight of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy books that have been previously published – only now you get them in a nice box. The price varies depending on where you […]

For those who love the classic comics, IDW’s announcement that they are going to print a hard-bound collection of Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie is going to be good news. Perhaps even better, they’re going to start with the strips that appeared in the mid-1930s so as not to overlap the collection that Fantagraphics has […]

For those outside of Utah, the name Pat Bagley probably won’t mean much, but for us in Utah, Pat is THE big name in cartooning. For 27 years he’s been the editorial cartoonist at the Salt Lake Tribune and is either loved or reviled by politicians and other headliners. Last night the local news profiled […]

Out on book shelves today is a book I’ve wrote about a couple of weeks ago called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. The author, Dave Wallis, has an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that nicely recaps the major themes of his book. It’s an excellent read and worth a […]

Buy Stick by Steve Breen at Amazon.com Lucas Turnbloom writes in to tell me that Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist (and creator of the comic Grand Avenue) Steve Breen has just published his first children’s book entitled Stick. From the Amazon description: Stick is a frog who likes to do things on his own-with no […]

Harry Katz, the curator for the Cartoon America exhibit in the Library of Congress, published a book last fall called “Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress” and will be in speaking about his book and signing copies at two times/locations in southern California – first at 1 pm at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium […]