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With Michael Maslin, Peter Arno, Bob Mankoff, Charles Schulz, Jeannie Schulz, Brian Anderson, Caitlin McGurk, Ernie Bushmiller, and winners of the 52nd Annie Awards.
Bootlegged Books – Michael Maslin Edition
Peter Arno biographer Michael Maslin has discovered pirated editions of his book (scroll to bottom):
I realized a year or two ago that there were paperback copies of my 2016 biography of Peter Arno floating around various bookseller sites. Since this was news to me, I looked into it (asked my agent if there was now a paperback Arno) and was told there was not — these copies being sold online were probably advance copies/readers copies. A couple of weeks ago, after seeing more listed, I spent $22.00 on my own book to see what was being sold. A copy arrived today, and it is indeed a paperback copy, not a reader’s copy. On the inside it reads…
There are legitimate review copies being sold, and, of course, Peter Arno … Mad Mad World … is still available.
‘How About Never’ Joins ‘Back to the Old Drawing Board’
“Back to the Old Drawing Board” is a well-known expression that originated with Peter Arno’s cartoon in The New Yorker. Bob Mankoff‘s “How About Never? Is Never Good For You?” caption for his cartoon in The New Yorker has become just as popular. This struck me as I read a recent report on releasing FBI agents’ names to the public:
“I mean, the idea that the Department of Justice went in there and said, ‘Okay, well, we’ll agree to a 48 hour period,’ if I were the judge it should be like, ‘I’m sorry, what about never?‘[emphasis added] I mean, the idea that this is what’s going on. There’s a list of people who did their job!
A Brian Crane Chalk Dry Erase Talk
How many of us still flip to the comic strips immediately upon picking up a newspaper? This week in Carson City, some students got to meet the artist behind one of those comics.
Brian Crane, the artist, creator and owner of the Pickles comic strip, took a trip to Fritsch Elementary School to visit some young students.
Pickles cartoonist Brian Crane continues to visit Reno area schools.
Winners at the 52nd Annie Awards
The 52nd Annie Awards (annieawards.org), the animation industry’s premiere celebration of the craft presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, were held Saturday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Winners were revealed for 32 competition categories covering feature film, television, event programming, shorts, VFX, games and more.
Making good on its domination of the nominations announcement, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot won nine awards — the most possible, as two of its 10 nominations were both in the voice acting for feature film race. The critically acclaimed pic (which is also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature) came away with Best Feature, Direction (Chris Sanders), Character Animation, Character Design, Production Design, Voice Acting (for Lupita Nyong’o as ROZ) and more.
Mercedes Milligan for Animation Magazine reports on the results of the 52nd Annie Awards and includes a full listing of all the categories’ winners and nominees.
Jeannie Schulz, the woman behind the man behind Peanuts
[W]e are just about to wrap up production on the second season, with five more episodes – the first of which went live on Tuesday and is available for listening now at youdontknowpeanuts.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your podcasts.
Episode 6, the new one, features an interview with Jeanne Schulz, the woman behind the man behind “Peanuts.” Other episodes in the second season cover the making of ”The Snoopy Show“ and other 21st Century ”Peanuts“ television series, how Snoopy has influenced fashion from New York to Paris, and a look at NASA’s relationship with ”Peanuts“ over the last 60 years.
You Don’t Know Peanuts interviews Charles Schulz‘s widow Jeannie Schulz.
From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels
One thing that’s obvious when you read Brian Anderson’s very funny comic strip “Dog Eat Doug“: He’s a real dog lover. Like, an “I know what this dog is thinking” kind of dog lover.
With the “Dog Eat Doug” strip on hold as he launches the new endeavor, Sophie is taking center stage as the heroine of Anderson’s graphic novel series. “Following in the footsteps of Snoopy, because ‘Peanuts’ is my favorite — it made sense,” Anderson explains. “She’s the star.”
Peter Chianca for Boston.com interviews Brian Anderson as he moves from comic strips to graphic novels.
“The other thing with coming from a newspaper strip to graphic novels is that newspaper strips have an older audience for the most part. So my young readers were coming from, either they found it online, they found the ebooks, their grandparents showed it to them, or their parents showed it to them. They didn’t even know what a newspaper was.”
Caitlin McGurk quizzed about the Nancy comic strip
Caitlin McGurk, Barbara Shermund biographer and curator at The Billy Ireland, appears on The Catered Quiz attempting to answer questions about the Nancy comic strip and the Ghost World movie.
She does very good with the Ernie Bushmiller era, not so well with the current strip.
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