Filed under: Comic Strips

A new Blondie book is due out this August called, Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History and will focus on the comic’s history, characters and creators. The feature is 77 years old.

John Hambrock has launched a new web site for his feature The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. It’s a quality web site that features a gallery of some of John’s favorite strips, a news blog as well as discussion forum (both are sparse or unlaunched at the moment). The site’s brand new – you can […]

Scott Adams will have a new Dilbert collection out next month called Positive Attitude. The collection reprints cartoons that ran between June 2006 and March 2007 and will be in color.

Mark Heath will have a new Spot the Frog collection on store shelves next month. The book is entitled, It’s Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee.

Bob Weber, Jr. has launched a blog for his Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids feature.From E&P: “I get around a thousand art submissions from children each week, and I’ve always felt sad about only being able to publish two a week,” the King Features Syndicate cartoonist told E&P. “Many of the kids put terrific […]

From E&P we learn that Baldo co-creator Hector Cantu is now the editorial director of the Heritage Auction Galleries – an auction house that deals with cartoon art.

Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, will be honored tomorrow at the ninth annual Ken Book Awards breakfast for his book, The War Within: One More Step at a Time. Garry receives his award for “outstanding literary contributions to a better understanding of mental illness.”

Not a big news item, but this brought a smile to my face. One disgruntled reader of The Capital, (Annapolis, Md.) has issued a final warning to the paper’s editor after he made some changes to the comics.And I quote the paper who quotes the soon-to-be-ex-subscriber: “In spite of the fact that someone or another […]

I received an email from Greg Hatfield of Checker Book Publishing who is announcing that they will be releasing a book collection of B.C. strips (500 total) this August entitled, GrowinGold with B.C.: A 50 Year Celebration by Johnny Hart. The cover art is an original Johnny Hart drawing that he did for the book […]

Even with B.C. being carried on by family, some papers (not a lot, mind you) are dropping the late Johnny Hart’s classic and replacing it with other features. Here is what I’ve tracked down this weekend.The Lexington Herald-Leader is going to drop B.C. and Wizard of Id and replace them with a new feature. They […]

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.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is scheduled to speak at the Muhlenberg College commencement on May 20th where he will also receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters.Hat tip to E&P.

I received an email from Steven Cloud announcing that his web comic Boy on a Stick and Slither has been picked up by United Media to run on comics.com beginning today.From the press release: BOASAS is a strip that can be silly, profound, or even absurd. At times, it can be political, but not necessarily […]

Last month I told you that Dan Piraro was involved with an auction to help raise money for an animal sanctuary in upper-state New York and that other cartoonists’ work were also on the auction block. From Dan I learn that some of the other cartoonists’ work will include: Garry Trudeau, Patrick McDonnell, Carol Lay, […]