Eagerly awaited: NANCY!!!
And yet another fantastic announcement you may have missed in the San Diego scramble: Fantagraphics is reprinting NANCY, Ernie Bushmiller's great experiment in ontology, starting in early 2010.
According to Co-Publisher Gary Groth, who...
Best Wishes to Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson, a guest at next week's SDCC, and creator of Cul de Sac, one of the finest comic strips currently running, has announced he has Parkinson's disease. Let's all send him some good...
Universal Press and Uclick combined
A shake up in KC, as comics strip giant Andrews McMeel has consolidated its syndications and online divisions, merging syndicate Universal Press Syndicate with digital entertainment company Uclick .
The resulting company, called Universal Uclick,...
Daryl Cagle’s Reuben Weekend photos
Over at Hogan's Alley!, Daryl Cagle posts his photos from the Memorial Day mingling of the comic strip tribes known as Reuben Awards Weekend. Above, Bill ("FoxTrot") Amend, left; Greg ("Luann") Evans, center;...
Wednesday Comics to appear in USA TODAY
One of the most intriguing news stories of the last few months has been DC's upcoming WEDNESDAY COMICS, a newspaper-sized weekly comic featuring a wide range of top talent under the watchful eye of...
Would Daddy Warbucks have bailed out Lehman Brothers?
The New York Times finds Jeet Heer's analysis of Little Orphan Annie's anti-FDR tone during the Great Depression a "Big Idea" for today, and a mirror of current monetary anxieties. What cartoon character is...
Alley Oop!
Last year the University of Missouri had a special exhibit celebrating 75 years of the comic strip Alley Oop, which concerns a comical, time raveling caveman. A digital exhibit is online, with a bio...
Earth Day with Comics Zombies
Sean Kleefield does all a favor by rounding up the full slate of Earth Day Comics from our dying newspapers' funny pages. Since we hadn't looked at a newspaper comic strip page in...many...
Ted Rall laid off at United Media
Alan Gardner reports that Ted Rall and eight others were laid off from United Media, the cartoon and content syndication giant.
Ted Rall, who worked as the Editor of Acquisitions and Development at United...
More awesome old comics: Bringing Up Father
Over at the NBM blog, Terry Nantier reminds us that a collection of BRINGING UP FATHER is on its way:
Well, we’re putting to bed the next great entry in our Forever Nuts collection of...
Alt weekly comics strips given no reprieve
Tom Tomorrow reprints correspondence that indicates that things aren't any better for alternative weekly comics than they were a few months ago.
To no one’s surprise the “temporary” Village Voice Media suspension of cartoons...
IDW gets in the ring with Family Circus
Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, and PJ are getting their own deluxe collection treatment, as IDW continues to expand their comic strip empire. At their WonderCon panel today, IDW announced a new series of Family Circus...
