Reuben nominees
E&P has A write-up on the Reuben Awards nominees, presneted each year to fine cartoonsits by the National Cartoonists Society, but we can't find...
Little Orphan Annie finds home at IDW
ICv2 breaks the news that IDW will be following up TERRY AND THE PIRATES with a collection of Little Orphan Annie:
Dean Mullaney, who...
COMPLETE TERRY AND THE PIRATES from IDW
Oh yeah! Hip hip hooray! This is it! The comic that set the standard for exotic danger, adventure, romance and femme fatales. Oh yes....
Jay Kennedy RIP
Very sad news going around this morning that Jay Kennedy, the highly respected editor in chief at King Features syndicate has died in a...
And now…Mary Worth!
Barry Alfonso at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes an insightful look at eternal busybody Mary Worth which continues even though it came in dead last...
NBM collects MUTT AND JEFF
Continuing the run of publishers announcing more deluxe classic comic strip reprints, NBM has announced a reprint series called FOREVER NUTS, spotlighting the oddball...
Pogo from FBI, designed by Smith
HOORAH!
Fantagraphics Books is pleased to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series comprising Walt Kelly's classic POGO comic strip....
Ramdom news and notes
§ Are fansubs destroying the American anime industry? This article at ComiPress says yes.
In 2006, rumors spread about anime distributor Central Park Media's bankruptcy...
Happy 60th Birthday, Steve Canyon
Sixty years ago this weekend, "Steve Canyon" flew onto the pages of the Sun and 168 other daily newspapers, beginning a run that lasted...
NYT watch: Comic Strips Reprints
Joe Matt and strip reprints sales in the comics loving New York Times:
A NIGHTMARE,” Joe Matt sighs. “All those years, all that money, all...
GET YOUR WAR ON Off-Broadway
David Rees alerts the TCJ message board to an off-Broadway version of his strip GET YOUR WAR ON:
Remember five years ago, when somebody sent...
Wheeler in the Onion
As recounted in his blog, we ran into Too Much Opera Man Shannon Wheeler on the subway the other night, and he told us...