This Friday, Glenn and Gary McCoy will be the featured guests on the Washington Posts live discussion chat. Chat starts 1 p.m. EST, but you can enter in your questions early.

After years of placing number one, Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse has been beat out as the top comic in the Wichita Eagle….  They are dropping Slylock Fox, Shoe, One Big Happy and Peanuts.Over the next two weeks, Mother Goose and Grimm, Sherman’s Lagoon, Six Chix and Bliss will run in the daily and Sunday slots, then starting August 27 – for another two weeks – Pearls Before Swine, Cow and Boy, Over the Hedge, and Bizarro will each take a turn.

Several puzzle pieces point to the possibility of Berkeley Breathed’s Opus making the leap to the big screen. Coming Soon.net has an entry for a Opus film entitled “Opus: The Last Christmas” with a release date of December 19, 2008. The production studio is The Weinstein Company, the same company behind CG animated films such […]

E&P reports that Dave Coverly has finally picked the winner of his second annual caption contest. The contest drew over 4,000 entries.  The winner is Pete Battistini of Avon IN.  Dave’s cartoon depicted a police line up with a woman looking at the line up. The winning zinger is, “Oh, that reminds me. I need […]

Tank McNama’s creator Jeff Millar has written a play that will be showcased this December in Boca Raton, FL during the Caldwell Theatre Company’s Play Reading Series.

The September 10th Prickly City by Scott Stantis will include a tribute to Bob Thaves, the creator of Frank & Earnest.”I had assisted Bob on his strip ‘King Baloo’ many years ago.” Stantis told E&P.  “He was a good one to learn from.”Stantis added that he thinks Thaves — who began “Frank & Ernest” in 1972 — helped “pave the way” for comics such as “The Far Side,” “Mother Goose and Grimm,” and “Non Sequitur.”

From E&P comes a little snippet of For Better or For Worse news.  Lynn Johnston’s characters will appear on an old-fashion carousel in North Bay, Ontario.

Bob Thaves, who created Frank & Ernest in 1972 has died at age 81 in Torrance California.  He leaves behind his wife, Katie, of 52 years, his son Tom, daughter Sara.

Norm Feuti’s Retail now has a permanent spot on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s comics page. The strip was tested in January where it received high rankings by readers. It replaces Johnny Hart’s B.C.

According to a Universal Press press release, the Oregonian reported that their top 10 most popular comics are: For Better or For Worse, Pickles, Stone Soup, Zits, Doonesbury, Blondie, Luann, Get Fuzzy, Mutts and Pearls Before Swine.

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) wants to substitute this Friday’s Non Sequtuir according to E&P. The cartoon in question pokes fun of Ann Coulter who is wearing a burqa after getting everything she’s ever wished for (the non-existence of liberals being one of those things).

Nick Anderson’s latest 3-D animated editorial cartoon has been copied over to YouTube where it has climbed to #11 in most linked to video on YouTube and has been watched 1,273 times.

Citizens of North Hartlepool England will be lobbied for a statue to commemorate cartoon strip character Andy Capp this month. The North Hartlepool Partnership will be leafletting door to door to gauge public interest and if it exists, the partnership will ask the Daily Mirror – where Andy Capp was first published back in 1957 – and ask for a sizable donation.  The project has been discussed for several years, but has not gained enough momentum to bring it to realization.

I found this interesting story about Fantagraphics publishing company and how they almost went under back in 2003. The company focuses on publishing collections, comics and graphic novels and by most accounts their passion for the art has attracted some of the best writers and artists such as R. Crumb, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge and Chris Ware.

Greg Evan’s Luann will be the center of attention at the Luann & Friends: Comic Families exhibit in California Center for the Arts, Encondido Museum (CA) that is running now through September.  The exhibit also includes work from Jim Davis (Garfield), Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues), Lynn Johnston (For Better or for Worse) and Brian Crane (Pickles).