From the Jane Goodall Institute: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace and world-renowned ethologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, has died at the age of 91 of natural causes. Dr. Jane was known around the world for her 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. However, in the […]
GoComics still shuffling the deck The top tiers for some Andrews McMeel Syndication strips have returned (Adam @ Home and Big Nate) while others are still not being made whole (The Born Loser and JumpStart). I was particularly happy to see the Little Oop and Dark Side of the Horse top tiers restored as I […]
This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures, because, between Jim Jordan cartoons that are suddenly irrelevant, and divisive, nasty commentary on the Middle East — plus the fact that few political cartoons post anything new for Monday anyway — I was in […]
I have a couple of other Foxtrot collections on my bookshelf. I’ve always liked Bill Amends work and was sad when it was announced he was dropping the strip to be Sunday only back in 2006. “Jasotron: 2012: A FoxTrot Collection” is a collection of his strips that ran in 2012.
]Andrews McMeel Publishig, the parent company of Universal Uclick, will launch a new line of comic graphic novels aimed at middle school grades late this summer . The paperback series will include titles from several comics strips such as: Lincoln Peirce’s comic Big Nate, Bill Amend’s FoxTrot and Mark Tatulli’s Lio. The first one (Big […]
FoxTrot Pad Packs FoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the iTunes Book Store. He’s getting a lot of attention from Mac blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacGasm, and even a mention by the venerable John Gruber of DaringFireball. One of the latest is […]
Bill Amend’s The Best of FoxTrot is steeply discounted over at Amazon right now. Regularly priced at $40, it’s now priced at $16.00. At 560 pages that’s like less than $.03 a page. Amazon notes that these are bargain books and as such “are new but could include a small mark from the publisher and […]