Running Press Books has announced that they have joined with MAD magazine to reprint every cartoon of MAD magazine cartoonist Don Martin over his 30 year with the magazine. The book is entitled “The Completely MAD Don Martin” and will be a two volume set at over 1,000 pages and seventeen pounds. The forward is […]
From the Aaugh blog comes news about a new biographical work on Charles Schulz that will be available in October. The book, coming in at 688 pages, is entitled “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” and is penned by David Michaelis. Amazon is offering a pre-order price guarantee that if you pre-order the book now, you’ll […]
Click book cover above to buy book through Amazon. A new collection book will be coming out on March 12 entitled Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression and as the title suggests, the book contains nearly 100 cartoons and illustrations that never saw print because they were axed by editors or publishers […]
Fantagraphics has announced that they will be publishing a Complete Pogo series that will be designed by cartoonist Jeff Smith, according to Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter. Fantagraphics had previously published 11 soft-cover books covering five and a half years. This new volume will be published annually with about two years of material per […]
Jose Varela, the former El Nuevo Herald editorial cartoonist, who held employees of Miami Herald captive for four hours with a toy gun will write a tell-all book to explain his actions.He says, “My motivation was to send a personal message with all the problems inside the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald,” he said.
Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will take part in a “History Is Lunch” series at the William F. Winter Archives and Histroy Building in Jackson on February 28th. He’ll talk about his cartoons and sign copies of his latest book that commemorates his 10 years at the Clarion-Ledger.
E&P has a couple of stories about some upcoming books to be released. Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, has a new book called Teaching Is a Learning Experience! that will be released next month. Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine also has a book collection due out next month entitled […]
Fantagraphic books is coming out with another collection of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. I’m not sure where I read this, but for legal reasons’ the books are all named Krazy & Ignatz. This latest collection entitled A Brick Stuffed With Moombins is due in stores in March. You can get $5 off if you pre-order […]
Brian Anderson, creator of Dog Eat Doug writes in to announce that he’s signed a two-book book deal with Roaring Brook Press to produce two books. The first book is entitled, “Nighty Night, Sleepy Sleep” and will based on his comic strip and will be available in the fall of 2008. The second book hasn’t […]
Ann Telnaes is self-publishing a collection of her cartoons on the topic of Dick Cheney. The book, entitled “Dick,” is 108 pages and can be purchased through Lulu.com.From E&P: Timing was one reason Telnaes self-published “Dick” via the Cartoonist Group, which compiled and formatted the book. “Cheney’s activities have inspired a lot of my cartoons […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley will be at Sam Weller’s Bookstore in downtown Salt Lake City to sign his latest book Clueless George Takes on Liberals!.
Stan Lee has committed to writing six how-to books on the topics of writing comics and drawing comics. The first title will be available in early 2007 with the second title in mid to late 2007. The book will be published through Dynamic Forces. Stan, among a plethora of other books he’s written, wrote the […]
Patrick McDonnell’s children’s book, Just Like Heaven was featured on the Today Show yesterday morning. The books publisher, Little Brown Books for Young Readers donated 15,000 copies to the Today Show’s annual toy drive. They’ve posted the segment online for your viewing pleasure.
The Boston Globe has posted a review of Doug Marlette’s fiction novel, Magic Time. And the Clarion-Ledger has posted an interview with Doug regarding the book. Here’s an excerpt from the interview. Q: In your dedication, you point out that your father looked for the bodies of Schwerner Chaney and Goodman, as if to distinguish […]
Book cover, copyright by Aaron Taylor. Used by permissionAaron Taylor, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Herald, has printed a collection of his best cartoons of 2006. The book is entitled, Elephants, Donkeys, and Cougars…Oh My!Says Aaron:This volume contains a hundred pages of my “greatest hits” since I joined the Herald in September 2005. Special appearances […]