Eisner has eye on Bazooka Joe
We sort of missed out on the drama over who would own Topps, the venerable gum and trading card company, but in case you missed it, Michael Eisner's company came out on top, and...
Classic Comic Strips Month
We totally missed the announcement, but luckily Johanna caught it! In an historic example of détente, Fantagraphics, D&Q, Checker and IDW are teaming up! For Classic Comic Strips month, and an oversized promotional...
Scorchy Smith!
Tom unearths the wonderful news that a Scorchy Smith collection is underway as announced by Dean Mullaney on a mailing list:
On the subject of future projects, since we've already sent...
Schulz on American Masters tonight
With the Red Sox having handily dispatched the Rockies, there is nothing to keep you from watching tonight's PBS's American Masters focusing on Charles Schulz. All sorts of goodies in the link, including...
Rare Bill Watterson Art
Before he drew CALVIN & HOBBES, the comic strip that made talking to your tiger all the rage, and before he become a reclusive painter, Bill Watterson drew a college comic strip for Kenyon...
Daily Schulz bio round-up
Review of the day; novelist John Updike in the New Yorker:
“Peanuts” was launched, in 1950, in a squat, space-saving format and under an enigmatic title imposed, to Schulz’s lifelong indignation, by the syndicate heads....
Watterson on Peanuts bio
The Wall Street Journal corrals Bill Watterson to review the new Charles Schulz biography:
It's a strange and interesting story, and Mr. Michaelis, the author of a 1998 biography of artist N.C. Wyeth, paces the...
Kibbles 'n' Bits 10/9/07
§ Author on author action as Susanna Clark (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ) profiles Alan Moore for the Telegraph:
It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore...
Steve Canyon revived
E&P also reports on a special 60th anniversary edition of STEVE CANYON which will appear on September 24th.
The new version of "Steve Canyon" is written and drawn by retired Air Force Master Sgt....
RIP: Phil Frank
San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank creator of FARLEY died this week at age 64. He had announced his retirement due to illness only a few days before.
Frank, a longtime resident of...
Great Cartoonists II: Milton Caniff/Norman Rockwell
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive presents a treasure trove of old magazine articles on Caniff and Rockwell. Marvelous stuff, just marvelous.
College cartoonist resigns
Grant Woolard, a cartoonist for the University of Viginia's Cavalier Daily has been forced to resign after a controversy erupted over one of his cartoons, entitled "Ethiopian Food Fight" which showed emaciated African...
