Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of Perry Bible Fellowship and Tony Millionaire creator of Sock Monkey will be sharing an exhibit that opens April 3rd in Portland OR and runs through April 30th. Nicholas will be at Floating World Comics on April 27th to sign books. Original art and oversized prints will be available for purchase.

E&P reports that the second volume of the Milton Caniff’s classic Terry and the Pirates collection has been released. This second out of six volume is 352 pages with all the daily and Sunday strips that first appeared between 1937-1938.

For those who may have dropped out of the conversation regarding the web comics financial model (and what print/syndicated cartoonists can be learn from it), Scott has set up a call-in conference call for Friday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Here’s the details taken from the comment thread: Title: Cartoonist Meeting Episode Notes: re: the Daily […]

Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is know for his crossing over other comic strip characters and parodies of other strips. Today’s PBS brings in Ted Forth of Sally Forth asking the concierge of a hotel about finding a “date” as his wife is “homely and bland.” What may not be apparent is that Francesco […]

A “new and improved” Orphan Works Bill is expected to be introduced to the House and Senate next week. The original Orphan Works bill was meant to make it easier for corporations to use creative works without compensating the creator if the creator cannot be found. The problem that the legislation would have created is […]

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Checker Book Publishing has teamed up with King Features to publish an early Beetle Bailey collection. The first book is entitled Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey 1950-1952. The book should hit bookshelves in May or June of this year.

» Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Tribune-Star, Indianapolis Star visited middle school children to tell them about his job and how to deal with rejection and the benefits of working hard.» Namco has released “Dilbert Cubicle Chaos” – a mobile game based on Scott Adam’s Dilbert feature. The game also allows for downloading the […]

Mike Lynch has dug up and posted a few early magazine gag panels that were published by B.C. creator Johnny Hart, Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham among others.

Wes Alexander, who’s comic strip Stormfield was syndicated through DBR Media, has passed away at the age of 42 of causes yet to be disclosed. According to Journalista!, his feature had reached 450 newspapers.You can read more about Wes over on the Great Lakes NCS chapter site.

Guy Gilchrist writes in to tell me that starting next week, the Nancy comic strip will be provided to subscribing newspapers and web sites in color. The decision was made to enhance the art on the web and have control over the coloring.

Editorial cartoonist and United Media’s Acquisition and Development Editor Ted Rall, Rich Stevens, creator of online and print comic Diesel Sweeties, along with web cartoonist Dean Haspiel, Raina Telgemeier, Collen Venable were at the first Graphic Novel Symposium held on March 15th to discuss the impact and viability of webcomics in the cartooning industry.The item […]

E&P is reporting that the National Cartoonists Society will honor Stu Rees with the Silver T-Square Award this year. Stu is being honored for the pro bono legal counsel that he has provided to the NCS.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau will be awarded the Mental Health Advocacy Award from Yale School of Medicine for his portrayal of soldiers dealing with the challenges of returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’ll be honored during the Department of Psychiatry’s Neuroscience 2008 symposium on April 5th. “The Mental Health Research Advocacy Award is […]

Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury announced earlier this month that he was taking a three month vacation. Subscribing papers could opt for three months of free re-runs. Some have opted to run guest comic polls. Here’s a break down of what I’ve read:» The Star-Gazette is running Scott Stantis’ Prickly City afer 61% of readers […]