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Peanuts Music Owner Sues Trump Admin, Heritage Auctions, Others for Copyright Violations

According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]

This Day (and Some Other Days) in Comic Strip Land

John Rose Celebrates 25 Years Drawing Barney Google and Snuffy SmithWe start by toasting John Rose who is celebrating a quarter of a century of being in charge of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. That surpasses the 24 years creator Billy De Beck put in on the comic strip (1919-1943), but still falls short of […]

Angoulême Festival Organizer 9eart+ Bankrupt

The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]

CSotD: The Ties That Blind

I’m getting a “shut up and hand over your wallets” vibe from this one, for a number of reasons.One is that nobody voted for this war, and, in fact, Trump was elected on a pledge to keep us out of foreign wars. Not only did the people not vote for it, but their legislators didn’t, […]

A Mid-Week Digest: Whatnots & Roundups

The Bryn Mawr-New Yorker Connection Cartoonist Maggie Larson contributed a cartoon to her alma mater’s Bryn Mawr Bulletin and they included a brief profile and an addendum noting Bryn Mawr past cartoons in The New Yorker. Letting Go Jonny Manning for the BBC tells of Peter Hansen thinning his comics collection. Many children collected comic […]

CSotD: Some Dogged Attempts at Humor

I met my newest granddog yesterday, a little King Charles who is very friendly and has the exuberance of a six-month-old. My own dog, who is not much bigger but is about five years older, at one point told him to cool his jets, which is how puppies learn, but he is a delight and […]

Comic Strips Unnewspapered

We got Heathcliff and Garfield, Dan Dare and Lance McLane, Detective Dick Tracy and Fred the Clown, and Calvin and Hobbes. Garfield or HeathcliffWizards of the Coast has announced a superdrop of Garfield Secret Lairs. (I have to admit I have no idea what any of that previous sentence, other than Garfield means.) But Peter […]

Apple TV announces an all-new slate of beloved Peanuts programming

Apple TV Announces New Peanuts Features

Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]

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Rolling Stone Excerpt of Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography

Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]

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Garry Trudeau on Sparky and Snoopy

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]

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Kickstarter Reverts to Prior Adult Content Policy After Backlash

This morning Kickstarter COO Sean Leow posted an apology and announced that the crowdfunding platform has reversed its week-old policy for projects with mature content. The controversial policy was more specific and detailed in what was no longer acceptable and caused outrage with creators who use the platform to fund their NSFW comics. Additionally, Kickstarter […]

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