Next week, a highly anticipated biography of Charles Schulz entitled “Schulz and Peanuts” will be released, but some members of the Schulz family are not happy with the way author David Michaelis has portrayed their father as “depressed, cold and bitter man who was constantly going after different women.”Michaelis argues that extensive research through family […]
According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Home Video has become the exclusive worldwide home video distributor of over 50 Peanuts specials. Warner plans to remaster many old classics such as A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The first collectors DVD will be Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown […]
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
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz will featured on an upcoming episode of PBS’s “American Masters” program. The episode, according to E&P includes interviews with members of the Schulz family, Jules Feiffer, Lynn Johnston and Schulz biographer David Michaelis.The episode is scheduled for October 29th.
E&P reports that a modernized Steve Canyon will be released – at least limitedly – on Monday. The new version is written and drawn by retired Air Force Master Sgt. Russ Maheras for the Air Force Times, a weekly paper that covers the military. The new strip “follows Brig. Gen. Steve Canyon as he investigates […]
The Charlie Rose’s new website includes thousands of videos from interviews he’s had on his show. Among the few dug up by Drawn! include Charles M. Schulz, Garry Trudeau, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, Scott Adams, Art Spiegelman. Sparky has always intrigued me. As I watched the 35 minute video I was inspired by […]
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
With all the attention now on Funky Winkerbean’s Lisa Moore’s impending death, the A.V. Club looks back at the 12 most memorable comic strip deaths which include: Farley (For Better Or For Worse), Dick Davenport (Doonesbury), Dead bird (Calvin & Hobbes), Grandpa (The Family Circus), Anonymous corpse (Kudzu), Daddy Warbucks (Little Orphan Annie), John Darling […]
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 […]
This year’s Comic-con in San Diego begins next Thursday here are some of the notable appearances by newspaper cartoonists:On Thursday, July 26, there is a spotlight on Morrie Turner (Wee Pals). This event runs from 1-2 p.m. in Room 3.From 3:00-4:00 is a spotlight on Daryl Cagle (MSNBC cartoonist and of cagle.com). Daryl will present […]
Dave Astor has written an excellent piece on some of the high, low, and funny points in the last 50 years of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. There also was that aforementioned 1988 encounter with former Zeppelin frontman Plant, who happened to be staying at the same Milwaukee hotel as AAEC conventioneers. Several cartoonists […]
I’ve mentioned the upcoming Charles M. Schulz biography before, now the Aaugh blog reports that the book now has a scheduled release date of October 16th.
The OSU Cartoon Research Library has a new exhibit in their reading room called To Be Continued… and will run through August 24th. The exhibit centers on examples of comic strip stories that, “kept Americans talking, speculating, and, most importantly, buying newspapers.”
Over on Lee Glover’s blog, “Mice Laugh Softly Charlotte” he’s got a rare treat that will only be posted for the next couple of weeks (next 4 to be exact). It’s a rarely seen animation circa 1935 called Teched in the Head and featured the “debut of comic-strip character Barney Google.” Tetched in the Head […]