Watch Your Head returns to Washington Post
From the ComicsDC blog comes news that the Washington Post has returned Cory Thomas‘ Watch Your Head to replace Boondocks.
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Phil Frank honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Farley and Elderbeerries creator Phil Frank will be the recipient the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce’s Lifetime Achievement Award this Friday. The award is given to an individual for exemplary service to the community.
Dennis the Menace statue stolen
Comicsreporter.com points us to a story about a Dennis the Menace statue being stolen from a park in Monterey CA. There is a reward for the arrest and conviction of the mischievous person(s) involved.
Baldo cartoon helps nab two con-artists
A Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos‘ Baldo cartoon is reported to may have helped a woman avoid a con-artist scam and catch the two con-artists. In Woodland CA, a woman was walking out of Wal-Mart and was approached by a woman speaking in Spanish asking for help to find an address and explaining that she had been in an accident and needed to sell some diamonds. A second woman approached the two acting like she had overheard the conversation to ask questions. The intended victim remembered news about this type of scam from a newspaper article or the Baldo cartoon and left the scene and reported it to authorities.
Gary Larson’s Tales from the Far Side posted on Google Video
Back in 1994, Gary Larson produced an animated TV feature called Tales from the Far Side. A copy of the feature has been posted to Google Video where you can view it for free (or at least until they take it down).
Charlie Brown Christmas Jihad
Jean Schulz can’t be happy with this.
Scott Adams regains ability to speak (UPDATE)
He’s tried Botox injections that helped relieve the spasms and allowed some of his normal speech, but that solution was affecting his professional speaking, so he discontinued the Not giving up, he’s tried hard to find patterns in contexts of when he could speak clearly and when he could not…. But for some reason the context is just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.Jack jumped over the candlestick.I repeated it dozens of times, partly because I could.
Today’s Remaindered Links
The last couple of weeks have been pretty eventful around in Gardner home and when I get squeezed for time, I can’t highlight every story that lands in my inbox. As an attempt to catch some of those things that would normally fall through the cracks, I’m starting a new feature called the Remaindered Links.
Steve Moore featured in Lake Oswego Review
The Lake Oswego Review – the paper that Steve Moore worked for fresh out of college – has caught up with the In the Bleacher’s cartoonist to talk about his sports panel, the movie Open Season that he wrote and those first years working for the Review as their sports editor and editorial cartoonist. If you’re a fan of Steve’s this is a good read.
Not everybody wants to be in a comic strip
When contacted by the Boston Globe about her cameo in Stan Lee’s comic she’s reported to have responded: Lopez said she wouldn’t be caught dead being a reporter, even in a comic strip…. Why don’t you live your own?”If you read the segment, the character Maria Lopez doesn’t even look at all like the TV judge.
Girls & Sports hits YouTube
In an effort to create buzz around the coming release of the first Girls & Sports book (Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook), Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus have created the first Girls & Sports short animation and have posted it on YouTube.
Rich Stevens gets cease-and-desist-notice from LucasFilm
Tom Spurgeon over at Comics Reporter points us to the Diesel Sweeties web site where Rich Stevens, the creator of the web comic Diesel Sweeties (that will be syndicated nationally beginning on January 8, 2007) has received a cease-and-desist letter from LucasFilm LTD regarding a variety of t-shirts that Rich sells on his web site.
Charles Schulz drops to 3rd place in top-earning dead celebrity
The list comes out every year and Charles M. Schulz is typically second only to Elvis, but this year’s Forbes list of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, Sparky drops to number three as Kurt Cobain comes from out of no where to take the top honor. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love sold a 25% stake in Nirvana’s song catalog to a New York music publishing company for a reported $50 million – which put Cobain on the list – at the top.
Volume 3 of the Complete Dennis the Menace now available
This third volume of Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace publishes every single panel strip from 1955 and 1956 in one handsome and thick hardcover volume. Ketchamâ??s legendary pen and ink work achieves its full flowering in this volume as do the various situations and themes that Ketcham would return to: the first â??split screenâ? (two-panel strip) that Ketcham would occasionally use; Dennis actually flirts with a girl; he rats Dad out to Mom; exacerbates confrontations between Dad and the police; and stymies hapless baby-sitters.
Randy Glasbergen featured on blogcritics.org
Blogcritics has posted an interview with Randy Glasbergen who does the “Better Half” panel.