Industry news for the professional cartoonist
From E&P comes news that Scott Adam’s Dilbert is coming out this October in its 28th book collection. The book is entitled “Try Rebooting Yourself: A Dilbert Collection”
Additionally, Glenn McCoy’s The Duplex will also be releasing a book collection in October called “Bad Habits: Duplex Collection”
Earlier this summer, I brought you news that Dean Young was going to open up a chain of sandwich shops called “Dagwood’s Sandwich Shoppe” named after the Dagwood character in Blondie. The first store opened in June.
Leigh Rubin’s Rubes collection book “The Wild Life of Cats” has won two humor awards according to E&P. The first award is a merit prize from Midwest Book Awards and the other is a bronze award by ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year.
In a development to watch to see if it affects the number of comics run in a newspaper, Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. will be experimenting with a new paper size that is somewhere between tabloid and broadsheet according to this story in the BBC. The first paper to make the leap will be the Indiana journal and Courier.